Best Business Practices: Guidelines and Tools for Team Planning and Learning Faster Than Your Competitors

Best Business Practices is an uncommonly practical "team planning and learning" tool. (See the outstanding endorsements on www.sim.world.) The authors combined their 90 plus years of business experience with over 15 years of solid research to create this one-of-a-kind management tool. This book is the only hands-on management tool (yes, really!) that integrates (1) a model team planning and learning process with a step-by-step guide, (2) clear guidelines and tools to readily create a self-sustaining learning organization, and (3) a comprehensive outline of ideal best practices to implement the process. For many small and medium businesses, the challenge today is how to do more in less time with fewer people, and yet get better results. Best Business Practices shows the way by simplifying the process! It presents the most enduring leadership and management practices, and models what truly successful companies do to produce disciplined innovation -- all neatly packaged into an extremely

"As deftly organized as it is practical, this could well be one of the more pertinent, valuable resources available to small-business owners."

"Best Business Practices is not a traditional business book; rather, it is a uniquely formatted management guidebook divided into two distinct but interrelated parts. Part 1, 'The Concise Guide to Innovative Management,' revolves around 'fifteen principles of innovative management,' each of which is highlighted and discussed in brief, high-impact chapters packed with informed and relevant advice.

"Part 2 of the book, 'The Business Knowledge Navigator,' is really a collection of tools -- in effect, surveys presented in sections that cover competitive analysis, company organization and management, marketing and sales, customer service, production and operations, financial and information management, and multi-location, retail businesses. Each of these seven sections includes instructional text, numerous examples, and guided questions to be answered. While the authors acknowledge the Navigator may appear to be similar to a management audit, they suggest that it is more of an "'organizational learning mechanism' that can be used to institutionalize a habitual learning and improvement process, through the proactive assessment of a company's business practices and plans."

"By dividing the book into two parts, the authors, each of whom is a business expert in his own right, have created a fast-track learning scenario. The small-business owner is first immersed in sound management principles and then gains access to the specific tools needed to rapidly assess his or her organization's capabilities.

"Best Business Practices is as deftly organized as it is practical. It could well be one of the more pertinent, valuable resources available to small-business owners who want to do more in less time and still achieve outstanding results."

-- Foreword Reviews, Winter 2016