Up Your Business!: 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Foreword

I realized Dave Anderson was a communicator the first time I heard him speak at a meeting for my nonprofit organization, EQUIP. He immediately connected with the audience as he talked about his experience leading a $300 million retail organization. Dave has a down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach to getting the job done, which made the ideas he shared that day refreshing and effective. In fact, it was my confidence in Dave’s abilities that prompted me to produce a video series with him to adapt my book The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork to a specific corporate sector.

Dave now brings that same talent for communicating real-world, “walk-the-talk” strategies to Up Your Business! He presents his ideas and principles in a clear and to-the-point way, and provides hundreds of easy-to-adapt strategies you can use to fix, build, or stretch your organization. It doesn’t matter if your organization is large or small; these principles can help a leader at any organizational level.

As the head of three organizations, I can relate to the emphasis Up Your Business! places on getting the right people on your team. Without the right people to implement vision and strategy, vision and strategy become useless. In this book, Dave not only shows the importance of people, he spells out specifically what you must do to find them, develop them, and retain them. He’ll also sell you on the necessity of ridding yourself of the wrong people quickly, professionally, and humanely.

Perhaps the most significant ...