{"product_id":"9781101024553","title":"Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders","description":"Want to compete with the best of the best? Then hit the ground running. Here's how. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The toughest job in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to quickly assess the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stakes for new leaders are even higher. Whether you've been brought on to fix something that's broken, launch a product, move the company in a new direction, or head up a division, every new leader is under the gun to get up to speed and begin producing strong numbers? ASAP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHit the Ground Running\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Jennings introduces us to America's best performing new CEOs who pulled off the most impressive transformations of the decade. They doubled revenues, more than tripled earnings per share, and doubled their company's net profit margins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After interviewing and analyzing the stories of these top leaders, Jennings delivers their hard- earned, battle-tested strategies, which will inspire any new leader to take the helm and start delivering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Richard and Tim Smucker were appointed co-CEOs of The J. M. Smucker Company, they shared their strategy with everyone and got them on board with their mission. Since then, Smucker's went on to dominate the markets and bring in billions of dollars of new business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mike McCallister, the CEO of a twenty-billion-dollar health-services giant, decided to stop pretending and publicly admit that health insurance is broken. Humana began to replace a crippled, complex, and confusing system with one that works and has more than tripled revenues, earnings, and share price since McCallister took over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By processing change in bite-size pieces, Jeffrey Lorberbaum led Mohawk Industries through twenty successful acquisitions and turned his family's carpet-making business into the largest flooring company in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Filled with engaging stories and lessons from the cream of the crop, \u003ci\u003eHit the Ground Running\u003c\/i\u003e will help new leaders at every level balance short- and long-term goals as well as the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, and the community.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118999126256,"sku":"9781101024553","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101024553_p0.jpg?v=1763684566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101024553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}