Faster Than the Speed of Change: How to Transform Your Business into a High Performance, High-Profit, High- Satisfaction Enterprise: Secrets from a Leading Executive Coach & futurist - Hardcover

Lemberg, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970112130 ISBN 13: 9780970112132

Publisher: Akiba Pr, 2000

Synopsis

An important new book for entrepreneurs who are serious about attaining world class results...

Every day I'm approached by entrepreneurs and executives who want to get more from their businesses. Of course they want to increase sales, profits and cash flow. They’d also like to be stronger leaders and better managers. They even want to take time off for themselves, once in a while.

The sad truth is that some people go through their whole working lives without mastering these critical business elements. Others go to great lengths to discover the secrets and learn how to do it for themselves. The payoff when they do? Cash, impact, and above all — satisfaction.

This book can take years off your learning curve. The ideas and action steps it contains are distilled from over seven years coaching hundreds of executives—in seventeen industries with sales ranging from one million to hundreds of millions of dollars.

You'll learn the simple yet powerful master secrets of entrepreneurial leaders. Every one of the eighty-four chapters contains detailed, how-to, common-sense strategies, methods, and techniques including:

How to unleash the spirit that puts your people in overdrive;

Getting people to do exactly what you want for their own reasons;

Discovering your highest value contribution and focusing exclusively on that;

Developing your personal leadership abilities, and how to generate those same abilities in your team;

The magic of having bigger problems, and how they produce bigger payoffs;

Finding the very best leaders in your organization and making them even better; Zeroing in on your strengths and zeroing out your weaknesses;

Playing games for peak performance;

The secret to creating unstoppable motivation--every single day;

Using breakdowns to create breakthroughs;

Turning your business into a no-problem zone;

Raising unreasonable expectations to produce unreasonable outcomes;

Changing how you think about change; and,

How to have more than enough time to do all the important things and only the important things.

If you applied just one of these 84 simple secrets, it would quickly improve your business and add cash to your bottom line. But imagine if you took the time to master two, three, or more. What if you piled secret on top of secret on top of secret—the impact on your business could well be incalculable. And while many of these ideas are different than what you’ve done until now, none of them are difficult.

However, I feel it is only fair to warn you...

This book is not for everybody. While the chapters are short – most are one or two pages, and none is more than five – to get the most out of it you will have to do some work. There are checklists to follow, questionnaires to fill in, and some of the chapters even contain exercises for the reader. So if you are looking to be spoon-fed some tired, old business pablum which isn't going to make a difference anyway, you probably don't want to get this book--since it will just end up gathering dust on your bookshelf.

On the other hand, I don’t think you can find a publication of any kind that will be more intriguing, informative, and profoundly profitable—if you are willing to make it work for you. I don’t care how successful you are right now—this book will help you massively grow your business.

By the way, this book only contains solutions. It does not have any war stories, mini-biographies or tales of corporate derring-do. I didn’t think you had any time to waste, so I left them out.

About this title

From the Publisher

Who else wants to build a business faster and more profitably?

In this book, Paul Lemberg, leading executive coach and strategist, shares detailed, step-by-step “how-to” success secrets and principles, many of which may surprise you.

New ways to be wrong that will help you get it right faster.

How to stay 100% on purpose, and avoid getting off track.

Inventing the future you want instead of trying to figure out where things are going.

Using the Merlin Method to eliminate more than half the work.

Making work a game worth playing – how to leverage what you have into getting what you want.

How to be totally unreasonable, and why that’s the most reasonable thing you can do.

The six key questions that guarantee success.

How to use the future to your advantage.

Avoiding broken promises, and getting your team to get it done.

The Enrollment Factor – the magic of getting people to do what you want for their reasons.

Seven secrets guaranteed to move your company forward faster, easier, and more profitably than you ever dreamed.

From the Author

This book will never be reviewed in the New York Times.

Why? Because the “Times” does not review practical how-to business books.

This book is based on seven years and thousands of hours working closely with executives and entrepreneurs to be more productive, profitable, and satisfied. It contains neither theory nor war stories – only practical advice. Every one of the 84 short chapters describes something simple you can do tomorrow.

Crack open the book and find the chapter that addresses your most pressing problem. Or just pick one – one that speaks directly to you – and start doing what it says.

Let this book advise you and guide you, coach you and provoke you.

But most of all, let it fill you with ideas.

Use those ideas to make more money. Use those ideas to build a great organization. Use those ideas to be satisfied.

Paul Lemberg, December 2001

Edition details

• Publisher: Akiba Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0970112130
• ISBN 13: 9780970112132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 186