Achieving Business Excellence

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Here are just a few VERY good books that I recommend — PLEASE feel free to add you suggestions!!!

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This first video is in response to a request from my good friend Hiro who asked me to recommend a few of my favorite books on branding. Hiro and his business partner Song run two amazing sushi restaurants in Florida, Dragonfly Sushi and Sake Company, and he is getting ready to update the brand on those wonderful restaurants and the franchise idea he has called Rolls ’n Bowls. So here are six books that I think are superb for helping you build a stronger brand…  Continue reading “Two New Videos: Branding & Impatient Customers” »

In one of the greatest self-help books ever written, Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” the author states that one of the Universal Master Keys to Success is creating mastermind groups (a small group of experts, advisers and mentors that focus on assisting you with your business, career and life). I could not agree more, as I’ve stated many times the most important thing I’ve ever learned is: You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with. Along those same lines, it is also my firm belief that one of the Universal Master Keys to business success is: Referrals. Continue reading “A Universal Master Key to Business Success” »

I really liked this book – thought it was full of great information. Click on the cover to learn more about “From Bud To Boss.”

.I hope you found this podcast helpful, I look forward to your comments, feedback and suggestions for future podcast topics.  Thanks so much – take good care, John

The books I have recomended in this podcast are:

NOBLE ENTERPRISE: The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits

The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization

Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide

The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself

The Greatness Zone – Know Yourself, Find Your Fit, Transform the World

Small Changes That Help Small Companies Make Big Increases in Sales

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

I hope that you found these book recommendations helpful — if you have some books you think I should read, please let me know!

I just ran across a fantastic post on Mitch Joel’s blog that I felt was too good not to pass along. If you would like several truly excellent ideas on how to improve your meetings than you really need to read this: 15 Ways to Have a Better Meeting - AND be sure to read all of the comments – there are several more excellent ideas for improving your meetings among the many comments!!!

And, if you would like to read a great book to help you better understand how social media will impact your life and your business, Mitch’s Six Pixels of Separation would be in my top five.

I also wanted to share a short video I just put together for  my very good friends at RESULTS.com, an international consulting and coaching firm of Business Execution Experts. I can tell you with 100% confidence that one of the absolute greatestes challenges most compnaies face today is Effective Execution! They know WHAT to do — they just can’t seem to figure HOW to get thier entire team engaged and focused with discipline, cadence and an ownership mentality.

Well, that is exactly what the folks at RESULTS.com specialize in, and I am extremely proud that they are using my book “Awesomely Simple” as one of their key references for assisting thier clients (along with Jim Collins’ Good to Great and other superb books) in taking sound business strategies and turning them into positve action in thier organizations. However, the terminalogy I use in my book around Vision, Mission and Values is slightly different than that used by RESULTS.com – so I put together this short video to help their clients (and you) get a very clear handle on what these concepts really mean.  I hope you find this of value…

RESULTS.com – Core Purpose, Vision, Core Values BHAG from John Spence on Vimeo.

I love it when the video preview stops on a really stupid looking picture of me… ha! Well, I promise the contents are much better than the picture below would have you assume. Hope you enjoy the ideas in this podcast.

Take good care — John

Review of the book: Soup from John Spence on Vimeo.