Performance Breakthrough: The Four Secrets of Passionate Organizations

by Mike Goldman

Gallup Organization research has concluded that only 29 percent of employees are truly engaged in the work they do. That's like an engine running at less than one-third of its power! How can a team reach its potential, or even come anywhere close, with that level of engagement?

Now imagine the impact of injecting more passion into your team. Imagine a company where eight out of ten people are truly engaged. What would this mean to your team's productivity, morale, retention, and ability to recruit top talent?

Revised and enhanced from the popular first edition, Performance Breakthrough reveals the four secrets for creating a more passionate, productive, and profitable organization. You'll find that the ideas discussed are not expensive. In fact, many can be executed without spending a dime.

This book's message is communicated in the form of a fictional story to help make these ideas real and implementable, as opposed to fuzzy concepts. That is augmented by valuable new case studies, summaries, checklists, and other tools that will help you create positive energy, find passion, and achieve your own Performance Breakthrough!

Mike Goldman is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant with over twenty-five years of success at coaching organizations of all sizes and missions, from the local entrepreneur to the Fortune 500. Throughout his career at Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, he has helped Verizon, Disney, Polo Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Kmart, Dillard's, Liz Claiborne, Levi Strauss, and numerous other outstanding companies. In 2007, Mike founded Performance Breakthrough to help mid-sized companies break through the inevitable, predictable barriers to growth.

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Genres: Business

162 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2009

About the author

Mike Goldman is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant and author of the book Performance Breakthrough: The 4 Secrets of Passionate Organizations. He has over 25 years consulting and coaching companies from the local entrepreneur to the Fortune 500.

Throughout his career at Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, he helped companies like Verizon, Disney, Polo Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Kmart, Dillard's, Liz Claiborne and Levi Strauss.

In 2007, Mike founded Performance Breakthrough to help mid-sized companies achieve dramatic business growth. He does this by working with leadership teams to ensure they have the right people, strategies and execution habits for growth.

Mike's clients value his vast experience with organizations of all sizes as well as his incredible passion and energy. His no-nonsense, practical style enables individuals and teams to uncover opportunity areas and achieve revolutionary results with laser focus.

http://www.performance-breakthrough.com

Reviews

[Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mike Goldman's Performance Breakthrough: The Four Secrets of Passionate Organizations was an enjoyable, highly applicable, business read. Unlike most books about improving corporate culture and growing businesses, Performance Breakthrough was written as a story. While this initially seemed like an odd choice, Mike used this writing style to fully explore each of the ideas presented in the context of interactions between people working at a business. This was great, because it showed you how the idea could be applied to your own business instead of the idea just existing in a vacumn.

I'd say that Mike's advice is most applicable for small and medium sized businesses, but really, his advice is applicable to organizations of all sizes.

Highly recommended.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

As an entrepreneur, I found this book very helpful although it is written as a story. I think that is what I liked about it. The book gives you the facts you need to create a great organization in a real life story. Mike's 4 secrets have already had an effect on my startup. I recommend this book if you are a manager, in a leadership role, or interested in business books.

[Susan Csoke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mike Goldman explains his insight and gives us suggestions on how to thrive in the workplace, wherever or whatever that may be. Very well written. A pleasure to peruse. THANK YOU GOODREADS FIRSTREADS FOR THIS FREE BOOK!!!!!

[David J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book, easy read, achievable recommendations.

[Juergen John Roscher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book through the GoodReads First Reads program.

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