Finding the Soul of Big Business

Finding the Soul of Big Business
Author: Paula Marshall
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Corporate culture
ISBN: 9780881443264

Too often businesses, large and small, have structure themselves to be goal oriented. Milestones, statistics and the bottom line are pursued like quarry pelts to be displayed on the belts of CEOs. Business leaders cannot be faulted for such approaches because, for the most part, we all are products of a post-twentieth century Western (American) culture that sees society in terms of winners and losers. Worth is too often ascribed to birth order, gender, race, region, class and any other characteristics that can be assigned a category. This book is an amalgamation of every lesson and every distinction I have learned and have applied to my intentions as a CEO. I recognize that each employee, vendor and customer have embarked on their own journeys and our collective steps become the journey of Bama Companies, Inc.

In Search for the Soul of International Business

In Search for the Soul of International Business
Author: Michael R. Czinkota
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1949443124

A New World Order has begun for trade and globalization. Inundated with constant information, new concepts, and endless data, individuals are caught in the whirlwind of a fast-paced world, often without the ability to stop and think, particularly when it comes to issues of the soul. I consider the soul the center of our activities and inspirations. If one says of an individual, “his soul has left him,” one connotes death. This also will apply to societies and corporations. Are we willing to permit the gradual march toward solitude with all the accompanying sharp cutting edges? Will the balloon go up? The reader can judge. I hope to supply the content here. With a foreword by Ambassador Laszlo Szabo, a preface by the Rev. Horkan, and the humorous yet pensive illustrations by award-winning cartoonist David Clark, this book increases one’s ability to gain a comprehensive understanding of the most pressing international business and trade issues that the world faces today.

Restoring the Soul of Business

Restoring the Soul of Business
Author: Rishad Tobaccowala
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400210666

From old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinct behind? Businesses are leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. The startling and often unacknowledged truth is that?the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people.?In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them. In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala?teaches you to: Understand how to unleash the significant benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital. Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies: cold cultures with little human interaction, poor innovation stemming from discouraged employees who don’t contribute ideas, and poor customer service due to automated, robotic processes. Explore how organizations of various sizes and from different industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity. Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology. Everyone working in an organization will find penetrating observations and guidance about how and why establishing the proper balance between human intuition and creativity and data-driven insights can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention—and even joy—in their careers and business. Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement, and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.

Tomorrow's Capitalist

Tomorrow's Capitalist
Author: Alan Murray
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1541789105

The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022 In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress. The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the 1 percent, and the blindness of corporations to public need have made their mark and are driving change. These aren’t the superficial cosmetic fixes that generated so much cynicism in the past, but a revolution in the way corporations are imagined and run. Tomorrow’s Capitalist reveals how corporate CEOs—the ultimate pragmatists—realized that they could lose their “operating license” unless they tackle the fundamental issues of our time: climate, diversity and inclusion, and inequality and workforce opportunity. Responding to their employees and customers who are demanding corporate change, they have taken the lead in establishing the bold new principles of stakeholder capitalism, ensuring that for the first time in more than a half a century it is not just shareholders who have a say in how corporations are run. Alan Murray vividly captures the zeitgeist of the real and compelling dynamic that is transforming much of the corporate world.

Big Business

Big Business
Author: Tyler Cowen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1250110548

An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.

Big Heart, Big Profits

Big Heart, Big Profits
Author: Tom McDonald, Ph.D.
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 145256910X

Our soul is in trouble at work. We are caught up in the relentless search for promotions and bigger pots of money. The strategies, skills, and tools we use are outmoded. We need a new understanding--one that focuses on human beings and their direct connection to financial success. In a remarkably candid way, Big Heart, Big Profits shows you how to liberate the souls of people and to benefit financially from the effort. Written in a unique memo format, it offers eleven strategies, fifty skills, and more than one hundred tools that can guarantee you success at work. Yes, there is life after this business recession and a great one at that--if you learn how to liberate the soul of business! These strategies include, among other things, making work interesting, recognizing and rewarding consistently, and turning on brain power. But there's more. For the first time, you will hear about what may be the best way to put all these strategies into action--strategy #11: Use friendship love as your business driver! If you want to succeed in this turbulent work world, you will need a bold, new approach. Big Heart, Big Profits lays out that journey for you!

Soul Business

Soul Business
Author: Paul Bruno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Business
ISBN: 9781403380678

Discovering the Soul of Service

Discovering the Soul of Service
Author: Leonard L. Berry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1999-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0684830868

This wise and inspiring book by Leonard Berry, moves far beyond his pioneering work in services marketing and service quality to explain how great service companies meet their toughest challenge: sustaining long-term success. In a world where customers regard flawless products as a given, service is the key differentiator between competitors in any field. From Berry's exacting study of fourteen mature, highly successful, labor-intensive companies comes an astonishing revelation: the single most important factor in building a lasting service business is not a matter of savvy business practice, but of humane values. In all fourteen award-winning companies -- Bergstrom Hotels, The Charles Schwab Corporation, Chick-fil-A, The Container Store, Custom Research Inc., Dana Commercial Credit, Dial-A-Mattress, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Midwest Express Airlines, Miller SQA, Special Expeditions, St. Paul Saints, USAA, and Ukrop's Super Markets -- values-driven leadership connects with strategic focus, executional excellence, control of destiny, trust-based relationships, generosity, investment in employee success, acting small, and brand cultivation to drive customer satisfaction, innovation, and growth. Dedicating a chapter to each of these nine drivers, this book is the most far-reaching and insightful vision ever presented of the principles and step-by-step actions that continuously bring success to life in a company. Berry's comprehensive model reveals the soul that underlies the strategies and day-to-day operations of great service companies, guiding the thousands of daily decisions of individual employees. Clear, compelling, pathbreaking, Discovering the Soul of Service is essential reading for managers everywhere.

Soul Trader

Soul Trader
Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749466383

If your heart's not in your business, why are you? In the flurry of everyday deadlines, fire fighting and all the pressing demands on our time, it's easy to forget the real reasons we started our own business in the first place. Soul Trader helps you connect with your personal mission, values and passion to create a 'stand out from the crowd' business that enriches you both financially and emotionally. Discover the seven essential principles that will help you build a business sensitive to today's economic and social realities, one that is profitable, customer-focused and in tune with your own beliefs, needs and goals. Rasheed Ogunlaru tears off the jargon and delves into the beating heart of what makes businesses really work. Throw your heart into your business, it will pay dividends.

The 7 Mysterie

The 7 Mysterie
Author: Grahame Martin
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1846943647

Ever wondered what your journey is for and where you are going? Spiritual practices and religions have all tried to answer this question. This book reveals where your destiny lies. The 7 Mysteries are the seven levels that are the making of you and by simply reading this book you awaken them and embark on a journey of transformation. The Seven Mysteries is a masterpiece, integrating the historical and metaphysical foundations of life with the reality of reunion with the Soul. G. Norman Shealy M.D., Ph.D.