Equipped to Lead: Managing People, Partners, Processes, and Performance

by Dan J. Sanders

Unless you manage a hook-and-ladder company, your workday shouldn't be spent putting out fires. Yet leaders often spend most of their time running from crisis to crisis. In his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Built to Serve , United Supermarkets CEO Dan Sanders showed how putting profi ts before people encourages organizational chaos, saps motivation, stifles innovation, and undercuts competitiveness. He also unveiled a revolutionary peoplecentered business model championed by United and challenged other business leaders to put the human factor first. In this follow-up to that inspirational bestseller, Dan and coauthor Galen Walters provide the tools needed to put the people-first model to work in your company. You’ll master the 4Ps critical to long-term People, Process, Partners, and Performance. And you will create an organization that puts front-line people before bottom-line profits, allowing you and your organization to profit more than you ever thought possible. Equipped to Lead gives you tools to create an organization where

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Reez Key]

Another amazing Dan's books! Put those 4P's to your people and let the process comes naturally. Must-have read books for managers and employees who want to make a big change in their contemplating of doing business. Combining people, process, partners and performance altogether then the result equals to success.

[Johnathan Nazarian]

This book is very well written and engaging. I look forward to finishing it soon.

[Claire]

I only dipped in and out of a few chapters so take it with a grain of salt. What I did read had a lot to do with football and god. Needless to say, I didn't get anything out of it.

[Jon Port]

Good read using a balanced scorecard type appraoch to business.