cover image Decide to Profit: 9 Steps to a Better Bottom Line

Decide to Profit: 9 Steps to a Better Bottom Line

Dorriah L. Rogers. SelectBooks, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5907-9427-2

In this practical and intuitive management guide, Rogers, a business consultant, introduces nine steps business leaders and employees can follow to improve performance. These steps, such as “identify bottlenecks” and “sustain a culture of continuous improvement,” are meant to be followed in order, each serving a specific purpose and linked to the preceding and following steps. Within each step are “accountability mechanisms,” such as checklists, to ensure employees follow the specific step’s provisions. Following these steps, she states, can improve a company’s fortunes by allowing leaders to combine different approaches, such as growing an existing business or changing a company’s direction, into a single integrated model that can be tracked, measured, and quantified. Rogers’s suggestions address essential issues such as identifying problems that need to be fixed, hiring the right people, setting goals, and more. With a proven track record across a number of industries, Rogers offers an effective way for employees at every level to be involved in an organization’s success and improve the bottom line. (June)