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Frank Prestipinois a former vice president of Global Enterprise Applications Strategy for Oracle Corporation. He has been profiled in the media and is a highly sought after speaker. Prestipino is currently President of Unicorn HRO. Frank Prestipino is president of UnicornHRO and is currently the general manager of the International College of Management, Sydney. In Getting to Big the Small Way, Frank Prestipino shares his unique approach for using incremental changes to make large improvements, and shows you how this method can be used in any size business regardless of the industry. Drawing upon his remarkable success at Oracle as well as his experiences at other organizations where he achieved compelling results by thinking small, Prestipino presents an executable strategy for pinpointing the areas in your business where precise change will deliver huge returns. Prestipino gives you proven tools and techniques that can be easily adopted with immediate results. He shows you how to grasp fresh opportunities and take steps into new markets with a solid growth strategy. Prestipino then brings everything together by helping you define the action steps that can be delegated across your organization that will embolden your employees to bring about change. Throughout, Prestipino provides frameworks for you to follow when implementing your strategy and ways to measure and manage the success of your incremental advances.--BOOK JACKET. Small steps can create big changes-and even bigger profits. As the former VP and strategist at Oracle, Frank Prestipino proved firsthand that when a company thinks small and adopts a focused strategy, growth and profitability follow. Now, Prestipino shares his knowledge and insights in Getting to Big the Small Way, a hands-on resource for identifying where small changes in your business will achieve the greatest gains-without subjecting it to undue costs or unacceptable risks. Presenting concrete techniques for developing a developing a focused business strategy, he then provides the necessary tools in order to trigger big advances in market share, competitiveness, and the bottom line. In this book the author: Explains how to stand out in the marketplace without making radical changes in your business Shows you how to get all your employees on board with your strategy Includes real-world examples to help you take action, as well as a scorecard for setting priorities and measuring results
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By Eric from San Francisco on 3/23/2008
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Chapter 8 has a workshop that allows you to put into practice the gems that are uncovered in the preceeding chapters. You will get benefit from this book, no doubt about it. The first management book that does not leave you standing at the theory but has real life practical uses you can implement immediately.

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