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Free, Perfect, and Now Robert Rodin

Free, Perfect, and Now By Robert Rodin

Free, Perfect, and Now by Robert Rodin


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Summary

From the dynamic CEO who engineered an astounding reinvention of his own company comes a practical guide to customer-focused innovation that will prepare business managers of today for the unpredictable future.

Free, Perfect, and Now Summary

Free, Perfect, and Now: Connecting to the Three Insatiable Customer Demands: A CEO's True Story by Robert Rodin

No matter what business you're in, odds are that customers will demand the same things of your product or service: they want it free, they want it perfect, and they want it now. In the meantime, your competitors are investigating ways to sell your product or service cheaper, better, or faster than you've ever imagined. As the CEO of electronics distributor Marshall Industries, and the disciple of management guru W.Edwards Deming, Robert Rodin was responsible for overseeing the creation of an award-winning business-to-business Web site far ahead of the competition and leading the company's radical reinvention into a wired, highly profitable 'high speed junction box.' FREE, PERFECT AND NOW is at once the story of that transformation, a practical guidebook, and a blueprint for tuning and coordinating every function of any organisation. For those eager to learn how to prepare a customer-focused organisation for an unpredictable future, Robert Rodin has innovative and thought-provoking answers.

Free, Perfect, and Now Reviews

Alan Webber Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine Read this book for what it takes to be a fast company.
George Gendron Editor, Inc. magazine Free, Perfect, and Now is the perfect business book for our times, one of the few authentic accounts I've read about how companies really manage to transform themselves.
Warren Bennis author of On Becoming a Leader For anyone who wants understand the 'on the ground' narrative of how entrepreneurs work, how innovation leverages intellectual capital, and how ideas -- business ideas -- can improve the quality of life, this is the book for you.

About Robert Rodin

Robert Rodin is the former CEO and president of Marshall Industries. He is presently founder, chairman, and CEO of eConnections, and creator of the world's number-one business-to-business Web site, providing services, management, and infrastructure to create supply chain solutions.

Table of Contents


Contents

1

The Customer Connection:


Addressing the Problem

2

You Don't Know What You Don't Know:


Learning Where to Look

3

Frustration by Design:


Why Bad Things Happen in Good Organizations

4

Management on Trial:


Launching Radical Change

5

The $15,000 Pallet Rack:


Building a Common Mission

6

Money Matters Most:


Designing the Right Incentives

7

No One Asks for a Salesman:


Customers Want Solutions

8

The Uses of Tools:


Technology Without Tears

9

Captain Internet and the Tower of Babel:


Get Wired

10

The Upside of Perfect:


Creating an Innovative Culture

11

Millennium Rules:


What's Next?

Acknowledgments

Additional information

GOR003556255
9780684850221
0684850222
Free, Perfect, and Now: Connecting to the Three Insatiable Customer Demands: A CEO's True Story by Robert Rodin
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Simon & Schuster
20001204
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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