Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits - Hardcover

One of the top ten business books of 2014! The Globe and Mail Their lively book distills what has worked for their Fortune 100 clients over the past 20 years. They knock over a few sacred cows along the way. Fortune.com Here s why you might need to forget what you know about teamwork, excelling, and tradition. Fast Company In Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits, authors Terri Long and Jeremy Eden show how incremental but meaningful change boosts productivity and profit. Investor s Business Daily CEOs are often far removed from the thousands of processes carried out every day across the complex organizations they lead, resulting in easy growth opportunities missed. Chiefexecutive.net The 28 best business books of 2014. Here is my list of books that will help you as an employee, as a manager and as a human. Diane Berard, Les Affaires Eden and Long wisely present both the problems and solutions concisely and cleverly. Their eye-openers are definitely worth a second look and they ll help you find and harvest that low-hanging fruit to increase your company s productivity and profits. Success Magazine This is one of the most practical and immediately actionable guides for business leaders that I have ever seen. Skip Prichard, Leadership Insights Amazing new book Olivia Paar-Rud, Quantum Business Insights Each chapter is written in a very entertaining way, so you can grasp it and put it right into practice. Financial Spectrum Radio with Bill Kearney Does it work? PNC Financial s initial program generated more than 2,400 ideas worth $400 million annually. When it merged with National City, it applied the same process and found $2 billion in operating efficiencies. Dallas Morning News You are not going to get bogged down in gobbledygook and confusion. This book moves along and is highly educational, informational and entertaining. Money Matters radio with Stu Taylor

A straightforward, valuable guide to reduce effort and raise profits Step inside any organization, even a very successful one, and you ll probably find a lot of waste if you know where to look. From providing a feature that consumers don t care about to exhausting efforts on tasks that only require adequate attention, there are countless areas where resources go down the drain. In Low-Hanging Fruit, Jeremy Eden and Terri Long provide seventy-seven of their most effective techniques for improvement, each drawn from their success working with major companies. For more than twenty years, Jeremy Eden and Terri Long have helped companies of all sizes make millions by harvesting their low-hanging fruit. In this practical guide, Eden and Long share valuable, refreshing insights in entertaining chapters that get straight to the point. This book shows you how to smoothly shift your approach, your priorities, and your mindset to reveal the hidden potential in your organization. Whether you are a member of a small team or a global executive, you will learn how to identify and solve hidden problems, improve productivity, and increase profits. Many people don t realize that there are dozens of quick, easy, and affordable ways to make things better. Don t buy into the myth that only some people have creative ideas. Typically, the people closest to the work (from the factory floor to the C-Suite) and the people closest to the customer know the best ways to improve business. We can pluck this low-hanging fruit every day to save time and money right away. Need to grow your company s earnings but don t know where to find the low-hanging fruit? The answer is right in front of you, but harvesting it takes skill. Eden and Long show you seventy-seven clever ways to discover possibilities and make meaningful changes. Low-Hanging Fruit shows you how to easily improve your job satisfaction, your team s performance, and your company s earnings.