For Immediate Release: July 29, 2008 Contact: Eddie Owens, Director of Corporate Communications
(office 806.791.8107; cell 806.928.0462)
"Equipped to Lead," Now on Sale
LUBBOCK, TX (Special) -- Unless you manage a hook-and-ladder company, your workday shouldn't be spent putting out fires. Yet leaders often spend most of their time running from crisis to crisis.
In his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller "Built to Serve," United
Supermarkets CEO Dan Sanders showed how putting profits before people encourages organizational chaos, saps motivation, stifles innovation and
undercuts competitiveness. He also unveiled a revolutionary people-centered business model championed by United which challenged other business leaders to put the human factor first.In the follow-up to that inspirational volume, Sanders and coauthor Galen Walters provide the tools needed to put the people-first model to work in the workplace with "Equipped to Lead."
Like its predecessor, the 224-page hardback is published by McGraw-Hill.
Readers will master the "4Ps" critical to long-term success - people, process, partners and performance - which enables the creation of an organization that puts frontline people before bottom-line profits and allows it to profit more than its leaders ever thought possible.
"Equipped to Lead" provides the tools to create an organization where:
- ROIH (return on investment in humanity) drives the bottom line,
- The Employee Satisfaction Ratio is a key component of every profit-and-loss (P&L) statement,
- Workplace chaos is transformed into a creative corporate culture, and
- Employees are equipped for higher levels of success.
Whether leading a sprawling international conglomerate or a staff of 30, using the proven tools and techniques in "Equipped to Lead" will help leaders and their organizations realize maximum potential - in their people, their performance and their profits.
"Sanders and Walters show that truly being of service to others is more profitable for companies, more rewarding for employees and more sustaining for society, said Dr. Leonard L. Berry, distinguished professor of marketing at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University, and coauthor of "Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic."
Sanders has been CEO of United Supermarkets, LLC, the first supermarket chain to win the prestigious National Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, since 2004. Also cofounder of The Center for Corporate Culture, he is a former Air Force U-2 reconnaissance pilot and a highly decorated officer.
Galen Walters developed the 4P Management System and founded the Leadership Lab at Go Away Farm. He founded and is managing director of Go Think!, a marketing and business consulting firm. He served as CEO of adplex, a Houston advertising and marketing services firm, from 1981-2007.
"Equipped to Lead" is available at all major bookstores, including online retailers, as well as all 47 locations of United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos United.
More information - including a free "Equipped to Lead" assessment - is available at www.4PAssessment.com.
