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9780028641638

Business is a Contact Sport

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  • ISBN13:

    9780028641638

  • ISBN10:

    0028641639

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

Business is a Contact Sport introduces 12 crucial principles for managing each business relationship as an asset at every level of the company, whether dealing with customers, stockholders, suppliers, employees, or community leaders. Relationship Asset Management (RAM) takes the understanding of the one-to-one relationship to the highest level, explaining how to use not just what you know but who you know to succeed in business. Business is a Contact Sport shows managers and entrepreneurs how to recognize all of their company's relationships as strategic assets and manage them as such.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Whole New Ballgame iv
See Relationships as Valuable Assets
2(22)
Develop a Game Plan
24(18)
Create Ownership for Relationships
42(20)
Transform Contacts into Connections
62(18)
Move into the Win-Win Zone
80(20)
Get to Know Your Stakeholders as People
100(16)
Build Bonds of Trust with All Stakeholders
116(16)
Banish Relationship Killers
132(16)
When Something Breaks, Fix It Fast
148(20)
Get Rolling and Maintain Momentum
168(20)
Maximize the Long-Term Value of Relationships
188(20)
Keep the Wins Coming, Stakeholder by Stakeholder
208(24)
Epilogue: Uncommon Common Sense 232(2)
Appendix: Target Wins for Company-Stakeholder Relationships 234(14)
Index 248

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