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Doing what matters : how to get results that make a difference-- the revolutionary old-school approach

Title
Doing what matters : how to get results that make a difference-- the revolutionary old-school approach / James M. Kilts ; with John F. Manfredi and Robert Lorber.
Author
Kilts, James M.
Publication
New York : Crown Business, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Manfredi, John F. (John Frederick), 1940-
  • Lorber, Robert
Description
viii, 318 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Interweaving personal experience with practical wisdom, a successful executive introduces a system for achieving business success that explains how to focus one's efforts to achieve maximum effect, while avoiding distractions that hinder long-term goals.
Subject
  • Management
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Success in business
  • Executives > Biography
  • Executives
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Introduction: "I think you're going to get fired" -- Sec. I: Fundamentals, people and attitudes matter. How do you know what really matters? ; Focusing on fundamentals matters ; Intellectual integrity matters ; Enthusiasm matters ; Action matters ; Understanding the right things matters -- Sec. II: Leadership matters. The right team matters ; Leadership process matters ; The first day matters ; Ignoring what matters : enter the circle of doom -- Sec. III: The future matters. The right road map matters ; Thinking for the long term matters -- Sec. IV: Doing the right things matters. Politicians and media matter ; Learning matters : reflections on a career of being continuously dissatisfied.
ISBN
  • 9780307351661
  • 0307351661
LCCN
2007010065
OCLC
  • ocm85851544
  • SCSB-1861811
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library