Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity without Layoffs [Paperback]

In an age when every business needs to achieve more with fewer resources, Jason Jennings offers the key to ramping up productivity. In this BusinessWeek bestseller, he identifies the world’s most productive companies and reveals their secrets—none of which, surprisingly, include layoffs. The companies he features are truly astonishing, from Ryanair, which generates three times more profit per employee than the legendary Southwest Airlines, to Nucor, a steel firm with annual growth of seventeen percent for the past thirty-one years and the highest paid workers in the industry.

Drawing on these and other amazing companies, Jennings presents his readers with solid advice on how to streamline businesses, eliminate waste, and inspire greatness within a workforce.

Less Is MoreForeword
Introduction
Focus
1. A Simple BIG Objective
2. The Hard Work Begins

Streamline
3. The First Tactic: The Truth
4. Destroy the Bureaucracy and Make It Simple
5. Get Rid of the Wrong Executives and Managers... Fast
6. No Layoffs
7. WTGBRFDT?
8. The Real Financial Drivers
9. Systematize Everything
10. Continuous Improvement
11. Compensation

Digitize
12. The Plug-in Myth

Motivate
13. Keeping Everyone on the Same Productivity Page

Embody
14. A Lean Spirit

Epilogue
Acknowledgments

Index

Jason Jennings has spent more than twenty years teaching businesspeople how to build great organizations.  He gives more than sixty keynote speeches every year and is the author of two previous business bestsellers: Less Is More and It's Not the Big That EatlS-