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Product Description THE Book on Improving Productivity by Fair Means or Foul In times of financial crisis, all businesses will be looking at people performance, but more importantly, they will need to explore how to improve productivity to optimize effectiveness. In today s unprecedented environment of change, successful companies will need dramatic productivity improvements to survive and thrive. Businesses that don t strive for significant improvements in this arena will struggle or fail. Restrained by employment law or misunderstandings of industry best practices, what can really be done to turn up the performance burner when the need is critical? This book offers practical advice on how to get measurable, improved productivity at little or no extra cost to the organization. Filled to the brim with hints and tips, it is essential reading for any manager or supervisor in the public or private sectors who needs to understand how to create and improve sustainable productivity. For easy reference and application, we ve divided the book into two sections: Best practice and recommended methods we call Fair, Unusually resourceful methods that work, but are most Foul. It is your choice to adopt the methods that best suit your style and the ultimate objectives you wish to achieve. Review Miller and Feiman offer a fresh, insightful and applicable perspective on how to Increase productivity for your key individuals, your team or your organization. They illustrate their practical action steps with memorable real-world examples throughout the book. They break down the challenges of increasing productivity into high priority, actionable points of focus. Their chapter summaries helpfully remind readers of the key points and applications. This is a rare book that can be of use equally in the hands of practicing managers as well as graduate students. Buy it, read it, and keep it on your management bookshelf, because you'll want to pull it down for re