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Open-book management : getting started / Cathy Ivancic, Jim Bado.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ivancic, Catherine.
- Series:
- Fifty-Minute series.
- 50-minute series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Open-book management.
- Industrial management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (118 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Crisp Publications, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Open-book management is one of the most popular ideas for growing a business because it encourages employees at all levels to look for ways to make and save money for their company. This book is designed to help managers and supervisors involve their employees in building a more productive and profitable enterprise. Learn how to teach people in your company how money gets made-and lost-and what they can do about it.
- Contents:
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ABOUT THE SERIES
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Getting Started
- CHAPTER 1 Why Open the Books?
- THE ECSTATIC BUZZ OF BUSINESS
- UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU WANT
- 10 REASONS TO OPEN YOUR BOOKS
- EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT IS NOT ENOUGH
- BUILD ON THE PAST
- Is Your Company Ready?
- MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OPEN-BOOK MANAGEMENT
- DISCLOSING FINANCIAL INFORMATION
- THE DISCLOSURE DILEMMA: THE COMPETITION
- YOUR FIRM'S SENSITIVE INFORMATION
- SHARING THE INFORMATION
- THE OPEN-BOOK MANAGEMENT PUZZLE
- Ideas for Getting Started
- CHAPTER 2 Critical Numbers and Business Goals
- WHAT ARE CRITICAL NUMBERS?
- Examples of Critical Numbers
- Critical Numbers Change with Business Changes
- TRACKING CRITICAL NUMBERS
- CREATE A "LINE OF SIGHT"
- NEXT YEAR'S CRITICAL NUMBERS
- RELAY REAL-TIME INFORMATION
- START (OR RESTART) THE PLANNING
- CONNECTING CRITICAL NUMBERS TO GOALS
- Your Vision for the Company
- YOU CAN'T DO IT ALONE
- TAKING THE VISION TO THE EMPLOYEES
- BRING YOUR CRITICAL NUMBERS INTO FOCUS
- CHAPTER 3 Prepare to Open the Books
- GETTING THE WORD OUT
- What Is the Current Method?
- RATE YOUR APPROACH
- NEW WAYS TO SHARE INFORMATION
- GAMES, HUDDLES, TEAMS, AND SCORECARDS
- HAVE A LITTLE FUN
- Celebrate the Milestones
- 8 IDEAS FOR INVOLVEMENT
- CHAPTER 4 Developing Employees as Businesspeople
- CONFRONTING COMMON MYTHS
- WHY EMPLOYEES WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THE BUSINESS
- "HOT TOPICS" CAN MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES
- Examples of "Hot Topics'
- CONQUERING NUMBER PHOBIA
- TEACH BUSINESS CONCEPTS WITH REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES
- A REAL-LIFE ANALOGY
- COMPARING HOUSEHOLD TO BUSINESS FINANCES
- COMPARING BUSINESS AND HOUSEHOLD TERMS
- 3 REAL-LIFE ANALOGIES YOU CAN USE
- BALANCE SHEET
- PROFIT AND LOSS
- CASH-FLOW STATEMENT
- Concepts, Not Statements, Are Critical.
- FINDING A METHOD FOR TRAINING
- SOURCES OF BUSINESS EDUCATION
- 2 VISUALS THAT ILLUSTRATE FINANCIAL CONCEPTS
- #1 GUESSING GAME
- #2 A HILL OF BEANS
- ADULT LEARNING FOR SUCCESS
- Principles of Adult Learning
- Action Plan for Success
- CHAPTER 5 Developing Leadership
- ADDRESSING BUSINESS CHALLENGES
- The DILLY Method*
- Are You a DILLY Method Company?
- BUILDING A COMPANY OF BUSINESSPEOPLE
- 25 Characteristics of Businesspeople
- FROM HIRED HAND TO BUSINESS PERSON
- ASSESSING YOUR LEADERS
- DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- HOW DO YOUR LEADERS RATE?
- FOCUS ON BUILDING LEADERS
- Checklist to Build Leaders' Skills
- Leadership Skills in Review
- MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS
- CHAPTER 6 Rewards of the Open-Book Process
- SHARING SUCCESS
- HIRED HANDS OR BUSINESSPEOPLE?
- How far are people on the journey from hired-hands to businesspeople?
- YOUR PLACE ON THE JOURNEY AFFECTS HOW REWARDS FIT
- HOW DO REWARDS HELP THE JOURNEY?
- INVENTING INCENTIVES
- Filling Up the Bucket
- Increasing Stakes in Meeting the Annual Plan
- Earn Back a Sacrifice
- Sharing Equity Through an ESOP
- Equal Bonus Based on Customer-service Goals
- Targets Trigger Annual Bonus
- STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF INCENTIVES
- CHECKLIST FOR OPEN-BOOK INCENTIVES
- EMPLOYEES WHO ACT LIKE OWNERS
- REVAMPING REWARDS
- WARNING! WARNING!! WARNING!!!
- TIPS FOR REVIEW GROUPS AND COMMITTEES
- 3 COMMON MISTAKES WITH VARIABLE INCENTIVES
- MOTIVATING WITHOUT MONEY
- ASSEMBLING THE PUZZLE PIECES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 103).
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2420-0
- OCLC:
- 70772013
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