Less is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity as a Competitive Tool in Business [SIGNED]

New condition white boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Jason Jennings; Author Dedication; Introduction; Epilogue; Acknowledgments and Index. Some indents at the lower section of the jacket front (see photographs). Signed by the author Jason Jennings with thin black ink on the blank first free front endpaper. "Great book . I read every word . Forget dull and boring .Jennings's new book is anything but . Filled with useful advice." - Al Ries, author. "Could easily be titled The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Organizations. Terrific, fresh examples, accessible writing, and the crystal clear ring of truth. I will give this book to every new CEO and GM I know and hope they take heed." - Sam Hill, author. "In a world now troubled with recession, scandal, and panic, Jennings provides a welcome relief with his clarity and focus on business fundamentals." - Stan Davis, author. "A great book that reads as easily as the best fiction . on a par with Good to Great." - Jack Covert, founder and president, 800 CEO Read. "Tired of spin? Jennings provides a steady stream of simple and brilliant business insights and tactics that will propel you to success." - Vince Thompson, VP, AOL Time Warner. "We wold honestly like to know how our competitors are able to spend so much money running their businesses. We simply don't understand how they do it." - Marion Sandler, co-chairman and CEO, World Savings. "Less IS More. Everyone in business wants to increase productivity - more output and less input, lower costs and higher profits. And no needle's proven harder to budge than the one on the "productivity meter." That's why Jason Jennings, co-author of the worldwide bestseller It's Not the Big That Eat the Small . It's the Fast That Eat the Slow, took on the assignment to identify the world's most productive companies and find out exactly what makes them models of productivity. Astonishing achievements . In the generally troubled airline industry, Europe's leading discount airline, Ryanair, generates three times more profit per employee than the "legendary" Southwest Airlines. In the low-margin discount furniture business, Swedish superstore chain IKEA creates fifty times more profit per employee than the industry average. In the bitterly competitive discount retail business, where giants like Kmart have fallen by the wayside, The Warehouse of New Zealand is making double the profit per dollar of sales achieved by industry leader Wal-Mart. In America's most troubled industry - steel - Nucor has never laid anyone off. Its workers are the highest paid in the industry, and the company has achieved annual revenue growth of 17 percent for thirty-one years. Jason Jennings and his team of researchers traveled the globe, researching thousands of businesses, to find the world's mosts productive companies. Then they went deep inside, uncovering the secrets that allow these companies to be dramatically more productive, often without reductions in head count. These productivity champions defy all the fixed rules and turn conventional wisdom upside down. Fast, snappy, edgy, and irreverent, Less is More is a virtual how-to manual, with nuts-and-bolts advice on how the best companies in the world: focus everyone on getting the job done; streamline everything; map every process and eliminate waste; build cultures, not bureaucracies; keep everyone moving in the same direction. Less is More is more than an idea; it's a powerful tool that can change the way you do business." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jason Jennings, a consultant and author, has been named one of the world's top twenty-five keynote speakers. His previous book, on the world's fastest companies, achieved worldwide bestseller status and has been translated into twenty-three languages.…