No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich

by Dan S. Kennedy

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My attitude is that you can always stop a project once started but completing a project not started is pretty much impossible.

Thoughts certainly have the potential to be things if quickly and decisively acted on.

Jack Welch told everybody at GE that “speed is EVERYTHING.

It is THE indispensable ingredient in competitiveness.”

sequentially. This is a key principle I emphasize in my Renegade Millionaire System®. It’s contrary to your entire upbringing and conditioning; you’ve been incessantly warned that “haste makes waste” and taught to do things “one step at a time,” not “all steps at the same time.”

“Order?” he huffed contemptuously. “There was no order. We did it all at once.” And at the speed of light.

circumstances! To this day, I look at every business as a turnaround situation.

Ironically, many small-business owners operate what should be agile little speedboats as if they were gigantic freighters, even while the savviest CEOs who inherit big, sluggish freighters try remaking them into flotillas of agile speedboats.

To manage for maximum profit—and survival—today, you must bring The Speed Impera...

The Speed Imperative is a philosophy and an attitude, an overriding idea of how your business is to be operated that has to be crystallized in your own mind, embraced emotio...

Caveat 1: Everything, every relationship is easier to get into than to get out of.

Caveat 2: Don’t be afraid to reverse yourself and kill a project or get out of a business situation as soon as you determine, for whatever reason, that it is more trouble than it’s worth.

Negative labels are often applied to exceptionally successful people,

“workaholic” label.

somebody who is passionately interested in his work and finds it infinitely more interesting than virtually all other activities,

resent the happy entrepreneur. It is arguably the same as the population of an insane asylum deciding the doctor, who has a stable home life, a high income, and gets to climb into his Porsche and zip to his lake cottage on weekends, is a nut—because he isn’t incarcerated like them.

Yet, individuals can be intimidated, shamed, and manipulated by the negative labeling.

The critical label of “control freak” is similarly applied to a successful, demanding, critical leader by people who resent being compelled to perform as agreed or at the highest level and resent accountability and consequences for their failures, and more broadly, by people whose lives are out of control so they envy and resent anyone who is not like them.

I have heard this control freak labeling my entire life,

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You most certainly can control others’ behavior.

You can do it by carrot-and-stick, reward and punishment, positive and critical recognition. Control is exercised over people constantly.

That’s not open to question. The only question has to do with how much control you exercise!

These men created work environments that were anything but “laid back.”

“Shined shoes save lives.”

They were far more laid back and far better liked by the crews. I preferred and prefer results. Pick your poison.

Really good and dedicated people appreciated this and responded well to it. Most had to be bullied.

I devoutly believe this is a key reason I got rich and others didn’t from the very same work—including others with more talent. They left things up to others. I was a control freak.

You Can’t Afford to Be Laid Back

and each and every prospective customer, client, or patient matters.

Shrugging your shoulders at any preventable loss is an unaffordable luxury.

You need to be a control freak about every word, the tone of voice, the impression the caller gets.

An important question is: Why shouldn’t you be in control?

Of your time,

of the way people access and wo...

Why should you tolerate others’ sabotage?

Second, I try very hard to eliminate people from my life who prove incapable of or unwilling to learn how to communicate with me as I want to be communicated with.