Jasón Jennings

Jason Jennings ha estudiado con profundidad algunas empresas que, sin salir en las portadas de las revistas, han logrado incrementar considerablemente sus ingresos y beneficios año tras año, con el objetivo de descubrir los secretos que hacen posible estos asombrosos y consistentes crecimientos. Tras su estudio, Jennings revela algo que tienen en comun todas estas empresas: una cultura basada en el principio del piensa en grande, actua en pequeño, y que permita combinar con exito las fortalezas de las grandes organizaciones con la energia de las que empiezan. Piense en grande, actue en pequeño esta compuesto por entretenidas historias, inolvidables lecciones de management y un test para averiguar si su negocio tiene lo que necesita para ser una de las mejores empresas del pais.

For most businesses, success is fleeting. There are only two real choices: stick with the status quo until things inevitably decline, or continuously change to stay vital. But how? Bestselling leadership and management guru Jason Jennings and his researchers screened 22,000 companies around the world that had been cited as great examples of reinvention. They selected the best, verified their success, interviewed their leaders, and learned how they pursue never-ending radical change. The fresh insights they discovered became Jenningss "reinvention rules" for any business. The featured companies include: Starbucks-which turned itself around by making tons of small bets on new ideas. Fresher store designs, better food products, and free Wi-Fi were a few of the results. Apollo Tyres-which launched the Apollo Academy to train everyone and reinvented how it finds, keeps, and grows people. It went from five hundred million to two billion in annual sales in only a few years. Arrow Electronics-which found success by solving problems that drove its customers crazy and has become a twenty-billion-dollar electronics giant by shifting its focus from selling commodities to custom tailoring solutions. Smithfield Foods-which faced a PR crisis over the way it slaughtered animals and polluted the environment and transformed itself by hiring an environmental activist and empowering him to transform the companys ethos. If youre ready to toss same old, same old out the door, The Reinventors will become your road map to successfully pursuing continuous change. It will help your company stay relevant for years to come.

Want to compete with the best of the best? Then hit the ground running. Here?s how. The toughest job in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to quickly assess the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it. The stakes for new leaders are even higher. Whether you?ve been brought on to fix something that?s broken, launch a product, move the company in a new direction, or head up a division, every new leader is under the gun to get up to speed and begin producing strong numbers? ASAP. In Hit the Ground Running, Jason Jennings introduces us to America?s best performing new CEOs who pulled off the most impressive transformations of the decade. They doubled revenues, more than tripled earnings per share, and doubled their company?s net profit margins. After interviewing and analyzing the stories of these top leaders, Jennings delivers their hard- earned, battle-tested strategies, which will inspire any new leader to take the helm and start delivering. When Richard and Tim Smucker were appointed co-CEOs of The J. M. Smucker Company, they shared their strategy with everyone and got them on board with their mission. Since then, Smucker?s went on to dominate the markets and bring in billions of dollars of new business. Mike McCallister, the CEO of a twenty-billion-dollar health-services giant, decided to stop pretending and publicly admit that health insurance is broken. Humana began to replace a crippled, complex, and confusing system with one that works and has more than tripled revenues, earnings, and share price since McCallister took over. By processing change in bite-size pieces, Jeffrey Lorberbaum led Mohawk Industries through twenty successful acquisitions and turned his family?s carpet-making business into the largest flooring company in the world. Filled with engaging stories and lessons from the cream of the crop, Hit the Ground Running will help new leaders at every level balance short- and long-term goals as well as the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, and the community.

In an age when every business needs to achieve more with fewer resources, Jason Jennings offers the key to ramping up productivity. In this BusinessWeek bestseller, he identifies the worlds most productive companies and reveals their secretsnone of which, surprisingly, include layoffs. The companies he features are truly astonishing, from Ryanair, which generates three times more profit per employee than the legendary Southwest Airlines, to Nucor, a steel firm with annual growth of seventeen percent for the past thirty-one years and the highest paid workers in the industry.Drawing on these and other amazing companies, Jennings presents his readers with solid advice on how to streamline businesses, eliminate waste, and inspire greatness within a workforce.

Is it possible for a company to grow its revenues and profits by 10 percent or more for at least ten consecutive years, not counting acquisitions? Thats an incredibly high bar for growth and profitability, one that 99.99 percent of American companies cant meetincluding the famous ones that routinely land on magazine covers. Management expert Jason Jennings screened 100,000 companies to identify nine little- known firms that have delivered stellar performance for a full decade or more, despite the ups and downs of the economy. And, as he reveals in his new book, these superstars have a lot in common despite their wide range of industries, which includes software, food services, medical supplies, and sporting goods.It turns out that the best long-term performers all combine the strengths of a big organization with the hunger of a start-up. They build excellent relationships with their customers, suppliers, workers, and shareholders. They groom future leaders at all levels. They balance their short-term goals with their long-term visions. And they teach their managers to get their hands dirty.Jennings did extensive interviews at his nine featured companies to find out exactly how they consistently increase revenue and profits without using manipulation or gimmickry. He reveals their unique approach to leadership and shows how any company, no matter what size or industry, can benefit from following their examples.Think Big, Act Small may be the most powerful management book since Good to Great and Execution.

The only way to ensure your companys success is to change faster on the inside than the world is changing on the outsideNo one knows the ins and outs of successful companies better than bestselling author Jason Jennings. Back in 2001, with Its Not the Big That Eat the Small, Its the Fast That Eat the Slow, Jennings proved that speed was the ultimate competitive advantage. But in 2015, companies of all sizes still struggle to adapt quickly. They know its crucial to their future but need help to get everyone implementing speed and urgency at all levels.Jennings and his researchers have spent years up close and personal with thousands of organizations around the worldfiguring out what makes them successful in both the short and long term. He understands the real challenges that keep more than eleven thousand CEOs, business owners, and executives up at night. And he knows how the best of the best combine speed and growth to deliver five times the average returns to shareholders.The High-Speed Company reveals the unique practices of businesses that have proven records of urgency and growth. The key distinction is that theyve created extraordinary cultures with a strong purpose, more trust, and relentless follow-through. These companies burn less energy, beat the competition, and have a lot of fun along the way.Jennings shows how you can implement the same strategies that have made companies such as CoBank, OReilly Auto Parts, Grainger, Henry Schein, Google, and Johnson & Johnson great, including: Encouraging employees to make the right moves without hesitation. J.M. Smucker has done this well by creating five guiding principles that employees at every level can apply to faster individual decision making. Doing more to constantly innovate and bring in new customers. Besides spending more than $2 billion on research and development, Procter & Gamble sends its senior executives to the homes of families who use their products in one hundred different countries, to learn their stories and connect with them, gaining fresh insights for new products. Being transparent about management decisions. Sonic Corp. knows this is the best way to drive trust and engagement with both employees and customers. Breathe easier. Handle any hurdle. Get things done faster. Thats the way of the high-speed company . . . and Jennings shows you how to build and sustain your own.

Los consultores Jasón Jennings y Laurence Haughton revelan cómo las empresas de mayor éxito del planeta han llegado a la cabeza de su sector y han sabido mantenerse siempre un paso por delante de sus competidores. ''No es el grande el que se come al chico es el rapido el que se come al lento'' contiene todos los secretos y las tacticas usadas para alcanzar un gran exito en el sector elegido a una velocidad de vertigo. De esta forma usted aprendera a: Pensar con rapidez previendo y detectando tendencias Tomar decisiones rapidas aplicando reglas y valorando estrategias Salir al mercado con rapidez explotando sus ventajas e institucionalizando la innovacion Seguir siendo rapido permaneciendo flexible y en contacto cercano con el cliente. Jennings y Haughton ha recorrido el mundo y han penetrado hasta el corazon de las empresas mas rapidas para conocer y aprender los metodos que usan en sectores que van desde la venta al por menor a la comida rapida, de los servicios financieros hasta la comunicacion.