Profit At Any Cost

Author : Jerry Fleming
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441242822

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As a young executive, Jerry Fleming wondered if making a profit and behaving ethically were even compatible. Years later, he discovered that ethical companies not only showed greater profits than their unethical competitors but also experienced greater employee satisfaction and public trust. With corporate scandals in the headlines, Profit at any Cost? is Fleming's call for businesspeople to rethink how ethics are lived out in the marketplace. In so doing, he says, they will find greater peace, success, and profits. With real-life examples from his thirty-year business career, Fleming challenges readers to: " see that the business world is not a separate playing field with its own "rules" examine the failures of energy-giant Enron and other troubled corporations " understand how seemingly insignificant choices lead to unethical business practices " discover four moral principles that lead to long-term success in business and life " learn why ethical companies are more successful in the long run With humor, poignant insights, and a wealth of research, Profit at Any Cost? will challenge and inspire men and women of all professions to bring integrity back to the workplace.

Author : Jerry Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business ethics
ISBN : 9832349699

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Author : Thomas F. O'Boyle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307773234

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At Any Cost by Thomas F. O'Boyle Pdf

"O'Boyle has researched and written a monumental book that should be mandatory reading for all CEOs and anyone concerned with business ethics." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Superb . . . a spirited study of General Electric, and of its sometimes brilliant, sometimes bungling, but always ruthless boss, Jack Welch." --Chicago Sun-Times With convincing passion and meticulous research, Thomas F. O'Boyle explores the forces behind General Electric's rise to the top of Wall Street, questioning if GE, with chief executive officer Jack Welch at the helm, is still "bringing good things to life." Welch--explosive, profit-hungry, and pragmatic--catapulted GE's stocks to the top, up 1,155 percent from 1982 to 1997. O'Boyle argues that these astounding results have come only with the heavy price of employees' lives, blighted under the tyranny of "Neutron Jack" Welch, so named for his bomb-like ability to eliminate staff without disturbing surrounding operations. During Welch's reign, hard-nosed success tactics--unblinking downsizing, ruthless acquisition negotiations, and the virtual abandonment of manufacturing in favor of the more glamorous entertainment and financial services industries--coexist with scandals like price-fixing, pollution, and defense contract fraud. Sure to spark controversy, this gripping, comprehensive account begs the greater question: Is Jack Welch's GE a model company for business in the next century, or is it time to change the way the world does business? "Smoothly written and thoroughly researched." --USA Today "This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of corporate America. . . . Thomas F. O'Boyle persuades you that GE--Jack Welch's GE--brings bad things to life. In abundance." --Washington Monthly

Author : Mike Michalowicz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735214163

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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz Pdf

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.

Author : Jan Eeckhout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691224299

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The Profit Paradox by Jan Eeckhout Pdf

A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the world In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a prosthetic hip costs more. Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power—the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research and telling the stories of common workers throughout, he demonstrates how market power has suffocated the world of work, and how, without better mechanisms to ensure competition, it could lead to disastrous market corrections and political turmoil. The Profit Paradox describes how, over the past forty years, a handful of companies have reaped most of the rewards of technological advancements—acquiring rivals, securing huge profits, and creating brutally unequal outcomes for workers. Instead of passing on the benefits of better technologies to consumers through lower prices, these “superstar” companies leverage new technologies to charge even higher prices. The consequences are already immense, from unnecessarily high prices for virtually everything, to fewer startups that can compete, to rising inequality and stagnating wages for most workers, to severely limited social mobility. A provocative investigation into how market power hurts average working people, The Profit Paradox also offers concrete solutions for fixing the problem and restoring a healthy economy.

Author : Michael Stone
Publisher : Craftsman Book Co
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1572180714

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Markup & Profit by Michael Stone Pdf

In order to succeed in a construction business you have to be able to mark up the price of your jobs to cover overhead expenses and make a decent profit. The problem is how much to mark it up. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how much to mark up you can apply it to your job costs and arrive at the right sales price for your work. This book gives you the background and the calculations necessary to easily figure the markup that is right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use.

Author : Perry J. Ludy
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1576751082

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Profit Building by Perry J. Ludy Pdf

According to a consultant who specializes in helping organizations develop creative approaches to building profit and managing innovation, achieving these goals is getting even tougher in the hi- tech global economy. Ludy outlines the steps of his team innovation management strategy, including a new twist on brainstorming. Appends profit-building process forms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christian Schuh,Wolfgang Schnellbacher,Alenka Triplat,Daniel Weise
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781647821401

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Profit from the Source by Christian Schuh,Wolfgang Schnellbacher,Alenka Triplat,Daniel Weise Pdf

Procurement can be your company's secret weapon for winning in turbulent times. In most companies, procurement is an unglamorous, unloved part of the business. A job in the procurement office? A fast track to nowhere. Sourcing and supplier management is strictly about costs, the thinking goes, and all that matters is playing hardball to get these as low as possible. No connection to innovation or strategy or creating positive value. Not so fast. As Boston Consulting Group thought leaders Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbächer, Alenka Triplat, and Daniel Weise explain in Profit from the Source, procurement should be regarded in a new light, because it has the potential to be a CEO's secret weapon in these fast-moving, disruptive times. The authors offer a wake-up call and a new strategic blueprint for leaders everywhere. With vivid stories and in-depth case studies, they illustrate that no other business function offers the same holistic view of a company—from suppliers who provide the organization with raw materials and components to consumers who buy the finished product. While it's true that a core task of any procurement function is to keep costs from spiraling out of control, the authors show how procurement can help businesses generate phenomenal value from five other sources of competitive advantage critical to success—innovation, quality, sustainability, speed, and risk reduction. Drawing on BCG research and the authors' firsthand experience working with some of the world's leading companies—in high tech, automotive, consumer goods, and many other industries—Profit from the Source provides proven strategies to drive new bottom-line, as well as top-line, growth for your company.

Author : Frank H. Knight
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781602060050

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Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank H. Knight Pdf

A timeless classic of economic theory that remains fascinating and pertinent today, this is Frank Knight's famous explanation of why perfect competition cannot eliminate profits, the important differences between "risk" and "uncertainty," and the vital role of the entrepreneur in profitmaking. Based on Knight's PhD dissertation, this 1921 work, balancing theory with fact to come to stunning insights, is a distinct pleasure to read. FRANK H. KNIGHT (1885-1972) is considered by some the greatest American scholar of economics of the 20th century. An economics professor at the University of Chicago from 1927 until 1955, he was one of the founders of the Chicago school of economics, which influenced Milton Friedman and George Stigler.

Author : Perry Ludy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458795304

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Profit Building by Perry Ludy Pdf

Improving Profit is the number one objective of business leaders, yet most do not truly understand how to move beyond the basics when it comes to cost reduction for profit improvement. Typically, a companys response to reducing cost is to reduce the workforce. People are laid off in large numbers and dollars are saved--or so it seems. This is a mistake, a short-term solution. Profit Building provides a better approach, one that focuses on profit improvement as a stand-alone process, demonstrating how an organization can achieve its goals to improve profitability and reduce cost through a proven method based on team innovation management. Perry J. Ludy offers a hands-on guide that shows managers how to move profit and loss financial reviews beyond the basics to creative solutions and genuine action plans. Using the authors five-step Profit Building Process (PBP), Profit Building shows how to organize teams with the specific purpose of improving profit--while providing an opportunity for employees to participate in developing cost reduction strategies so that profit improvement is perpetual. A system of step-by-step activities designed to produce immediate and continuous results, the PBP shows managers how to apply concepts from prior learning--such as teams, innovation management, and performance improvement planning--to create tailor-made strategies for any organization. And it introduces """"Questions Brainstorming,"""" a new twist to traditional brainstorming that fosters avid group participation resulting in better solutions. In order to achieve success beyond today, business leaders must leverage all resources available within the organization to improve profit, reduce cost, and create a better place to work. Profit Building is an executive handbook and a quick desk reference for managers that shows how to do just that.

Author : Robert S. Denham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1330052730

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Fundamentals of Cost and Profit Calculation by Robert S. Denham Pdf

Excerpt from Fundamentals of Cost and Profit Calculation Mr. Business Man: This book is written for you. It is intended to help you to throw the searchlight of analysis into those recesses of your business heretofore darkened by the cobwebbed traditions and formulas handed down from the age of the tallow candle, the ox cart and the quill pen. The two most vital factors in business are Cost and Profit, but few there are who can, in any transaction, define the point where the elements of Cost cease to accumulate, and Profit becomes a reality. It is extremely important, now more than at any other time in the history of America, that business men know the cost of doing business, the cost of manufacture, the cost of distribution, and the extent of the profits in the business. Thousands of concerns not profitably conducted are forced to pay taxes on profits which do not exist, because unthinking and misinformed accountants have established incorrect methods of calculation. For the same reason others who should pay taxes will go free. Every business should be profitably conducted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robert S. Denham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0483137227

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Fundamentals of Cost and Profit Calculation (Classic Reprint) by Robert S. Denham Pdf

Excerpt from Fundamentals of Cost and Profit Calculation This book is written for you. It is in tended to help you to throw the searchlight of analysis into those recesses of your business heretofore darkened by the cobwebbed tradi tions and formulas handed down from the age of the tallow candle, the ox cart and the quill pen. The two most Vital factors in business are Cost and Profit, but few there are who can, in any transaction, define the point where the elements of Cost cease to accumulate, and Profit becomes a reality. It is extremely important, now more than at any other time in the history of America, that business men know the cost of doing business, the cost of manufacture, the cost of distribution, and the extent ofthe profits in the business. Thousands of concerns not profitably con ducted are forced to pay taxes on profits which do not exist, because unthinking and misinformed accountants have established incorrect methods of calculation. For the same reason others who should pay taxes will go free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Perry J Ludy
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605094632

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Profit Building by Perry J Ludy Pdf

IMPROVING PROFIT is the number one objective of business leaders, yet most do not truly understand how to move beyond the basics when it comes to cost reduction for profit improvement. Typically, a company's response to reducing cost is to reduce the workforce. People are laid off in large numbers and dollars are saved-or so it seems. This is a mistake, a short-term solution. Profit Building provides a better approach, one that focuses on profit improvement as a stand-alone process, demonstrating how an organization can achieve its goals to improve profitability and reduce cost through a proven method based on team innovation management. Perry J. Ludy offers a hands-on guide that shows managers how to move profit-and-loss financial reviews beyond the basics to creative solutions and genuine action plans. Using the author's four-step Profit Building Process (PBP), Profit Building shows how to organize teams with the specific purpose of improving profit-while providing an opportunity for employees to participate in developing cost reduction strategies so that profit improvement is perpetual. A system of step-by-step activities designed to produce immediate and continuous results, the PBP shows managers how to apply concepts from prior learning-such as teams, innovation management, and performance improvement planning-to create tailor-made strategies for any organization. And it introduces "Questions Brainstorming," a new twist to traditional brainstorming that fosters avid group participation resulting in better solutions. In order to achieve success beyond today, business leaders must leverage all resources available within the organization to improve profit, reduce cost, and create a better place to work. Profit Building is an executive handbook and a quick desk reference for managers that shows how to do just that.

Author : Dale Furtwengler
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814433006

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Pricing for Profit by Dale Furtwengler Pdf

Furtwengler gives you the crucial number-crunching skills you need to determine your ideal price, looks at both the tangible and intangible elements that affect what people are will to pay, and gives you tips for tapping into the values and emotions that motivate people to pay more.

Author : Scott Cawood,Rita Vancil Bailey
Publisher : Davies-Black Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0891061967

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Destination Profit by Scott Cawood,Rita Vancil Bailey Pdf

Build the bottom line in your business: engaged people = enriched profits