Drivers

Productivity Knowhow’ covers the entire performance improvement process from start to finish - from identifying where to improve, and by how much, then solving how to improve and, finally, implementing the improvements and making them last.  It’s different because:

• It argues that managers at any level in any sector, public or private, need no more than ten ‘cardinal’ performance measures to be in good control of their teams and to highlight where action may be needed
• It covers the alternatives for setting targets for each of these cardinals and quantifying the extent of any gaps that need to be closed
• It reviews the main options available to take action at strategic/ organisation level, tactical/ process level and task level
• It details how to implement change successfully
• It’s based on the experience of many top-class management consultants and ‘what works’, whether a latest fad or not
• Its bullet-point style and widespread use of diagrams and colour make it easy to read and understand         

Dick Smythe wrote this book because, as the late Peter Drucker once said, managers have always sought something which lets them “do their job with less effort, in less time, yet with greater impact” 
         
The chairman of a major oil company said “you have produced a handbook on how to follow best practice in every phase of business, even as an investor – I like the way you did it – it’s a guide one can dip in and out of based on the topic one is interested in – congratulations on producing it”

The book costs £20 + p&p.  To purchase copies, please email dicksmythe@aol.com