Details ways to apply the principles and strategies of the U.S. Marine Corps to the competitive world of business with tips on recruiting, training, and leadership

Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way

Business & Money

Carrison, Dan

WALSH, Rod

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

At 9:00 on a summer morning, the phone rang in the kitchen of a comfortable California home. The homeowner answered in his usual chipper tone, "Hello?" "We have your son." Within hours, the FBI had deployed a team of agents working in a literal life-and-death race against time. Like any organization facng a crucial deadline, the Bureau not only had to think and move quickly, it had to stay focused in the face of enormous pressure and frustrating obstacles. Though seldom with such high stakes, companies rise to the challenge of tough deadlines every day. For example when Conoco pooled its resources in a monumental relief effort in the aftermath of a "perfect storm," it used exemplary crisis management strategy while helping residents of hundreds of devastated homes, all in one unforgettable weekend of activity. And when Boeing designed and delivered its new state-of-the-art 777 aircraft in record time for its demanding customer United Airlines, the achievement required a profound change in Boeing's own management philosophy. These stories and others exemplify how organizations facing critical, high-pressure deadlines require unique skills and creative, original strategies. Because without proper deadline management techniques, making the "impossible" happen is, well ... impossible.

Deadline!: How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time

Biography & History

American companies steeling themselves against the threat of terrorism can learn a lot from Israel's experience. Despite facing the constant grim reality of terrorism, the Israeli economy is surprisingly robust. How do businesses in Israel stay viable in a chaotic environment, and how do they rebuild in the wake of destruction? Based on in-depth personal interviews conducted in Israel by the author, Business Under Fire offers inspirational and instructive stories about the techniques Israeli companies have used to thrive in the face of extraordinary adversity.Readers will learn how to: * prepare for the worst * find new markets and customer bases * motivate in a stressful, uncertain environment * make a profit under previously unimaginable conditions * make quick, intuitive decisions * build flexibility into long-term plansPacked with fascinating first-person accounts from CEOs, managers, and in-the-trenches employees who have been through it all, Business Under Fire contains hard-won insights every business can learn from.

Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding in the Face of Terror -- and What We Can Learn from Them

International

From the Bureau to the Boardroom: 30 Management Lessons from the FBI

For more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas of motivation, training, and management. Semper Fi -- which since its hardcover publication has become a best-selling, business leadership classic -- shows readers how to adapt these proven practices for their own organizations. Semper Fi goes behind the scenes to pinpoint what works for the USMC, showing readers how to create a training and management culture that brings out the best in all their employees. The book gives readers tough, practical tips for: * inspiring individual initiative * rewarding hard work * encouraging loyalty * working with limited resources * dealing with change * "leading the troops"" at every level of the organization. "This is not," according to Dan Rather, "one of those mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-philosophical books on leadership. Semper Fi is a book you will actually USE, read, and refer to again and again."

"This is not," according to Dan Rather, "one of those mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-philosophical books on leadership. Semper Fi is a book you will actually USE, read, and refer to again and again.”For more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas of motivation, training, and management. Semper Fi-- which since its hardcover publication has become a best-selling, business leadership classic -- shows readers how to adapt these proven practices for their own organizations.Semper Fi goes behind the scenes to pinpoint what works for the USMC, showing readers how to create a training and management culture that brings out the best in all their employees. The book gives readers tough, practical tips for: * inspiring individual initiative * rewarding hard work * encouraging loyalty * working with limited resources * dealing with change * "leading the troops"" at every level of the organization.

Business Culture

AMACOM

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Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way

Deadline!: How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time

Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding in the Face of Terror -- and What We Can Learn from Them

From the Bureau to the Boardroom: 30 Management Lessons from the FBI

Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way

Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way