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Everything Counts: 52 Remarkable Ways to Inspire Excellence and Drive Results
Everything Counts! is an execution strategy for inspiring excellence and driving exceptional results. Too many people and organizations are mired in a mediocrity of their own making. They focus their attention and efforts on getting the big things right, but they ignore the little things that often make a big difference. As a result, reputations are damaged, brands diluted, and loyalty is lost by blatant disregard for the small stuff which negatively impacts the customer experience. For years, we've been taught not to sweat the small stuff, but in the real world of business, Everything Counts.
Everything Counts is a call to greater awareness and with awareness comes a responsibility to raise the performance bar. It offers a powerful operating philosophy that will steer your organization to reach higher levels of growth, productivity, and performance. From the smallest customer contact to the most minute details of product quality, the little things add up to a pretty big deal. Serving as the definitive guide on organizational and personal mastery, this book gives you a foundation for unparalleled customer service, superior quality, and consistent performance.
A proven system for organizing, aligning, and improving all your efforts in sales, service, and performance improvement Shows how concentrating on the small things leads to growth, productivity, personal success, and business greatness Helps you motivate your people and teams to achieve better results on both the personal and organizational level Everything Counts reminds us that seemingly small things can make tremendous differences. The purpose of this book is to help you internally define and take ownership of the most fundamental principle behind achieving results beyond you expectations-a single idea with an actionable focus-Everything Counts!
Everything Counts is a call to greater awareness and with awareness comes a responsibility to raise the performance bar. It offers a powerful operating philosophy that will steer your organization to reach higher levels of growth, productivity, and performance. From the smallest customer contact to the most minute details of product quality, the little things add up to a pretty big deal. Serving as the definitive guide on organizational and personal mastery, this book gives you a foundation for unparalleled customer service, superior quality, and consistent performance.
A proven system for organizing, aligning, and improving all your efforts in sales, service, and performance improvement Shows how concentrating on the small things leads to growth, productivity, personal success, and business greatness Helps you motivate your people and teams to achieve better results on both the personal and organizational level Everything Counts reminds us that seemingly small things can make tremendous differences. The purpose of this book is to help you internally define and take ownership of the most fundamental principle behind achieving results beyond you expectations-a single idea with an actionable focus-Everything Counts!
291 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2006
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February 22, 2013
Para muestra, basta un botón. Les hago un brevísimo resumen de los primeros tres capítulos de este libro:
Every Detail Counts:
The Magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.
• The key to quality in every aspect of our lives is doing little things correctly, all the time, every time.
• The people who deliver superior results are not simply doing more of the same things everyone else does; they are doing better things. Very small differences, consistently practiced, produce superior results
Commitment Counts:
Commitment protects and strengthens your credibility and reputation with yourself and others.
• You either honor your commitments, or you don’t.
• Your ability to honor your promises directly impacts your credibility, reputation, trustworthiness, earning ability, and overall peace of mind.
If you make a commitment, honor it.
If you make a promise, keep it.
If you set a goal, achieve it.
Focus Counts:
Focus serves as an absolute precondition for every success you will experience.
• Everything you think, say or do is either taking you closer to or further away from it
• Unless you’re able to give complete attention to your goals and desires, your full potential will never see the light of day
• Few things are more admirable than a focused and committed individual
• Concentrate your efforts on the smallest number of activities that will produce the largest amount of productivity
• While it is always possible to regain focus, it is far easier to remain than to regain or rehabilitate.
Every Detail Counts:
The Magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.
• The key to quality in every aspect of our lives is doing little things correctly, all the time, every time.
• The people who deliver superior results are not simply doing more of the same things everyone else does; they are doing better things. Very small differences, consistently practiced, produce superior results
Commitment Counts:
Commitment protects and strengthens your credibility and reputation with yourself and others.
• You either honor your commitments, or you don’t.
• Your ability to honor your promises directly impacts your credibility, reputation, trustworthiness, earning ability, and overall peace of mind.
If you make a commitment, honor it.
If you make a promise, keep it.
If you set a goal, achieve it.
Focus Counts:
Focus serves as an absolute precondition for every success you will experience.
• Everything you think, say or do is either taking you closer to or further away from it
• Unless you’re able to give complete attention to your goals and desires, your full potential will never see the light of day
• Few things are more admirable than a focused and committed individual
• Concentrate your efforts on the smallest number of activities that will produce the largest amount of productivity
• While it is always possible to regain focus, it is far easier to remain than to regain or rehabilitate.
June 18, 2019
"Everything Counts" is a book filled with decent, common sense advice. Unfortunately, the advice is so common sense that the book does not need to exist. It serves as an adequate reminder to uphold certain values, but it is largely uncompelling.
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January 22, 2022Everything Counts is an amazing book that details out 52 ways to inspire excellence and drive results. Each chapter is specific to a new way that you can improve in three different areas of your life: work, personal, overall.
There are so many amazing things about this book, and so many good points and quotes, it’s hard to pick out any favorites. I felt more drawn to the personal portion of the book and how I can better myself outside of the work zone. Sometimes I find I am more highly focused at work and less at home, which is where this book helps to motivate and inspire you to change habits, become more productive and live a happier life.
This is a great book not to just read on a personal level, but to also share with co-workers and family. Everyone can benefit in some way from the lessons, personal stories, and calls to action, to make everything in their life count.
We read this book for our work book club and it was perfect in all ways. Everyone benefited from Blair’s short and quick chapters. They are direct, to the point, and relate to a current event/business/person that has achieved such successes and made it count.
There are so many amazing things about this book, and so many good points and quotes, it’s hard to pick out any favorites. I felt more drawn to the personal portion of the book and how I can better myself outside of the work zone. Sometimes I find I am more highly focused at work and less at home, which is where this book helps to motivate and inspire you to change habits, become more productive and live a happier life.
This is a great book not to just read on a personal level, but to also share with co-workers and family. Everyone can benefit in some way from the lessons, personal stories, and calls to action, to make everything in their life count.
We read this book for our work book club and it was perfect in all ways. Everyone benefited from Blair’s short and quick chapters. They are direct, to the point, and relate to a current event/business/person that has achieved such successes and made it count.
June 30, 2022
Excellence doesn't come by chance. Everything counts!
An easy to read book which takes you towards a focus of excellence in 52 examples of what counts.
An easy to read book which takes you towards a focus of excellence in 52 examples of what counts.
June 18, 2017
I really liked this book, and if it were available on Kindle i would by the electronic version as well. This book is broken down into major life sections, and it has a short essay about different topics. It has 52 different chapters, and you could concentrate on a different chapter each week of the year.
April 22, 2011
Gary Ryan Blair will definitely get you pumped up in regard to setting some tangible goals in life. I actually spoke with him once on the phone - and he is very personable and easy to listen to. For more information, go to: http://www.garyryanblair.com/
September 10, 2012
Remarcable book, delivers a high level of energy, puts you into focus mode and gets you doing thing. Which is the most important result.
August 4, 2013
Some nice tidbits!!!
September 6, 2014
Yep I agree
October 18, 2014
Some good nuggets of wisdom
March 22, 2015
Must read for anyone who wants to excel in life. Practical advice that you can follow pronto.
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