The Vital Corporation: How American Businesses-Large and Small-Double Profits in Two Years or Less - Hardcover

Many books, such as Frederick G. Harmon and Garry Jacobs's The Vital Difference (AMACOM: American Management Assn., 1985), offer executives step-by-step advice on making their companies excel. In this book, Jacobs, now writing with business consultant Macfarlane, focuses on a company's growth process and identifies five components (market, technology, people, capital organization) that goals and values energize. Unlike the scholarly Made in America , by Michael L. Dertouzos and others ( LJ 6/15/89), which analyzes the decline in productivity and suggests broad changes, this popular work supplies detailed action plans and includes specific examples from firms like Federal Express and Trimedyne. Recommended.
- Leonard Grundt, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
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