The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business Success - Hardcover

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Dan Coughlin (Fenton, MO) is a management consultant and keynote speaker, whose clients include Toyota, McDonald’s, Abbott, Marriott, Coca-Cola, YPO, Boeing, the St. Louis Cardinals, and more than 150 other organizations.

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Praise for The Management 500:

“With The Management 500, Coughlin distinguishes himself as one of the nation’s best contemporary business thinkers. The Management 500 will become an invaluable part of your management and leadership arsenal.”

— From the Foreword by Jason Jennings, best-selling author of

Hit the Ground Running; Less Is More; and Think Big, Act Small

“Business managers who love both winning and motorsports will find The Management 500 enormously valuable. I give Dan Coughlin a solid checkered flag in terms of his practical advice to help your business win the race for sustainable, profitable growth.”

— Lee White, President & General Manager, Toyota Racing Development, USA Inc.

“The Management 500 is a business race you can’t afford to lose. Dan Coughlin’s advice is powerful and high-octane, and it will help steer you on the fast track to sustainable business success!” — Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times and Wall Street Journal #1 best-selling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“The Management 500 is a breathtaking ride around a challenging track. Dan Coughlin tunes your business like a fine Ferrari, but you can own this book for a thousandth of the cost and make your business roar.”

— Alan Weiss, Ph.D., author of Million Dollar Consulting

“Dan Coughlin’s fresh look at the business of motorsports has brought to life a number of highly valuable management lessons in a fast-paced and exciting format. Dan is a master storyteller who makes winning management strategies memorable.”

— Torrey Galida, President, Millsport-Motorsports

“The Management 500 is perfect for high-performing executives and managers. Having had Dan as my executive coach, I can tell you that the strategies work and have helped me and my team win races in our business.”

— Rick Altizer, President, Jiffy Lube International

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Superstar drivers like Dale Earnhardt, Sr., Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Michael Schumacher, and others reigned supreme on the famous motor speedways of Daytona, Indianapolis, and Monza, Italy, at an incredible pace—always within inches of certain disaster. To excel in the world of auto racing, a driver needs passion, shrewdness, quick-thinking, strategy, teamwork, attention to detail, practice, and dedication. And what’s true in auto racing is true in the business world. In fact, many of the qualities possessed by successful race teams are also essential for building and sustaining successful, profitable businesses. Whether you run a multibillion-dollar corporation or a hundred-thousand-dollar profit center, you need to achieve results quickly and improve performance month after month if you want to capture the checkered flag.

The Management 500 provides high-octane management lessons drawn from the thrilling world of professional auto racing. With practical insights and stories from some of the most successful people in Formula 1, IndyCar Series, and NASCAR over the past 60 years—including Lee White, President of Toyota Racing Development, Geoff Smith, President of Roush Fenway Racing, and Ed Laukes, head of Toyota Motorsports—consultant Dan Coughlin shows you how to rev up your skills in areas like leadership, teamwork, strategy, branding, problem-solving, change management, and innovation, and get your company running in high gear. With keen observations from such racing stars as Michael Schumacher at Ferrari Racing Team, Jeff Gordon at Hendrick Motorsports, and Dale Earnhardt, Sr., at Richard Childress Racing, you’ll discover how to:

● Master the eight problem scenarios business managers routinely face.

● Use pit stops wisely.

● Develop a team of people who understand your goals.

● Design a strategy to win.

● Build brand equity in any industry.

● Manage your people through an under­standing of their strengths, passions,

and values.

● Successfully navigate turns in the track.

● Problem-solve on the go, even when things are intense.

From Enzo Ferrari to Kyle Busch, and from the Indianapolis 500 to the Daytona 500, this inspiring book will give you invaluable tips from the fast, furious world of racing, and show you how to combine passion with precision to beat your rivals in today’s high-stakes world of business management.

Dan Coughlin is a Fenton, Missouri–based management con­sultant and popular key­note speaker whose clients in­clude Toyota, Shell, McDonald’s, Roush Fenway Racing, Prudential, Abbott, and more than 150 other organizations.

Dan can be reached through his website at www.thecoughlincompany.com.