Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies do to Get Results in Tough Times - Softcover

Bob Nelson; Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615306616 ISBN 13: 9780615306612

Publisher: Nelson Motivation, 2009

Synopsis

We are in the middle of an economic downturn that is deeper and more damaging to the world economy than anything experienced since the 1930s. This means that to thrive or even just to survive company owners, executives, managers and even employees must take action today to remake their businesses in a way that is profound and long-lasting.

To do this, it is first necessary to understand that most employees today feel apprehensive, overworked, and underappreciated. During tough and challenging times when we are asking them to do even more with less, they report feeling even more stressed and fearful than ever before. But, there is hope. By focusing on the right things in this negative and challenging time, any company can make a dramatic and marked difference in improving its ability to compete more effectively. And, to keep employees from becoming overloaded and myopic, management needs to especially be proactive and positive in difficult times.

In this book, Dr. Bob Nelson, best-selling author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, discusses his recent research, experience and insights as to how managers and organizations can make a practical difference during tight and recessionary times even with little time, resources or budget. This book uses hundreds of current and practical examples of what today s managers and business owners are doing to keep employees focused and positive in ways that can help their organization to emerge stronger from difficult economic times.

About this title

About the Author:

Few people have had the influence on the field of management and motivation as Dr. Bob Nelson. He is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting company located in San Diego, California that specializes in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs and systems.

Dr. Nelson has sold some 3 million books on management and motivation, translated into over 25 languages, including 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook, 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work, Managing For Dummies, The Management Bible and Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies do to Get Results in Tough Times.

Dr. Nelson appears frequently in the national media including on CBS 60 Minutes, twice in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Money magazine, NPR and a dedicated box feature in BusinessWeek. He has also appeared numerous times on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Fortune and INC. magazines and numerous other publications to discuss how to best motivate today's employees.

Dr. Nelson has also been speaking for more than 20 years and has spoken thousands of times to over 1500 companies. He has also performed hundreds of public seminars with American City Business Journals, Lumacore, Get Motivated Seminars and Wyncom's "Lessons in Leadership" to live audiences in excess of 80,000 people. He has worked with or consulted for almost two-thirds of the companies on the Fortune 500 list.

He holds an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley and received his PhD in management from The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management School at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, where he worked closely with the late Dr. Peter Drucker on his doctoral studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nelson Motivation
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0615306616
• ISBN 13: 9780615306612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144