1st Edition

Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business is Easier Than You Think

By Dick Cross Copyright 2012
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    The growth engine of the global economy is no longer through mega-production and huge conglomerates, but rather through the proliferation of smaller enterprises. In America alone, tens of thousands of businesses crop up each year. Unfortunately, few will succeed, though not due to a lack of ingenuity, initiative, or even capital. Why, then? Because, according to Dick Cross, author of  Just Run It!,  most business owners lack not just the fundamentals, the nuts and bolts of operating a business effectively day to day, but the bigger picture of how to achieve business success. After taking dozens of companies from underperforming to high performancing, Cross observed a pattern, out of which he devised a formula for success. Using his Just Run It! formula--which includes the  Vision-Strategy-Execution analysis--he is now teaching business owners how to understand their business on "the back of an envelope" and make it exceptional.

    INTRODUCTION Your Timing Is Great, CHAPTER 1 The Challenge to Mainstream Businesses, CHAPTER 2 Your Business on the Back of an Envelope, CHAPTER 3 The Vision-Strategy-Execution Framework and How It Operates, CHAPTER 4 The Magic of Vision, CHAPTER 5 Converting Vision into Reality: Strategy and Execution, CHAPTER 6 The Theory of Renewal, CHAPTER 7 Building a Culture of Learning from One Another, CHAPTER 8 Demystifying Leadership and Management, CHAPTER 9 Inspired Operations, CHAPTER 10 Dollars and Cents, CHAPTER 11 Love and Business, and Other Important Things, CHAPTER 12 Being Listened to and Understood, CHAPTER 13, Special Considerations for New Appointees, CHAPTER 14 Seeing Your Business in the Context of History, Postscript, Index

    Biography

    Dick Cross