Business Think

Unabridged
Author: Dave Marcum , Steve Smith , Mahan Khalsa
Narrator: Dave Marcum
Genres: Business
Publisher: FranklinCovey
Date: May 2002
Length: 5 hours
Ratings:
Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

Overview

Over fifty percent of all business decisions fail; eighty-two percent of businesses go under before their tenth anniversary and eight out of ten new products fail. In direct contrast, research also shows that ninety-one percent of all businesspeople are as confident as ever in making decisions. Decision confidence is up. Success is down. While we are an inventive, entrepreneurial society, an innovation explosion has also been marked by business implosion.

To improve the odds for success, the authors of businessThink deliver a revolutionary new method that bridges the monumental gap between the results businesspeople want and the failure they often get. The rules of businessThink provide tomorrow's leaders with the ability to create effective solutions and take themselves and their companies into the zone of optimum performance. businessThink transforms "workers" into businesspeople with provocative, powerful new rules that will help you:

- Make winning strategic business decisions
- Have colleagues trust your judgment and leadership
- Leverage and utilize your talents
- Become highly influential and relevant
- Create business value

With rules like "Check Your Ego at the Door," "Move Off the Solution," "Create Curiosity," and "Get Evidence," businessThink goes where other business books are afraid to go and promises to significantly increase results by delivering hard-core business thinking and fusing it with high intuition and emotional intelligence to get it right -- no matter what!

Reviews (5)

Better than expected

Written by Anonymous from Burns, TN on March 11th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I was a bit nervous about spending time listening to this one after reading some of the other reviews. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Yes, some of the material would not be considered new, but the examples of how to apply the questions was unique or perhaps I just needed a refresher on stopping to think before participating in an "event". I enjoyed the yellow light concept as well.

Big disappointment

Written by Anonymous from Riverdale, UT on August 29th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 1/5

I was very disappointed with this book. It's put out by Franklin Covey so I thought it would be good but, unlikely Stephen Covey material, it was mostly just obvious fluff; nothing substantial. I finally gave up, which is very unlike me. I just felt it was a waste of time.

not bad

Written by Anonymous on August 1st, 2006

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Lots of interesting info - didn't love the reader, or the style, but was a good listen. Incorporated info and critique of other books that I'd read(listened to), which I liked. Overall, a worthwhile read.

Business THink

Written by Ashok Gunda from Burlington, MA on March 19th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Excellent book. Lot's of common sense ideas that we know but forget to practice.

Don't Waste Your Time

Written by Anonymous from Palo Alto, CA on September 29th, 2004

  • Book Rating: 1/5

Ninety percent of this book is fluff with very general, obvious or useless ideas. The authors present their ideas in a very salemanship manner. I found myself sacastically muttering 'No Kidding!' much of the time, and wondering if these guys had any real business experience. If you're spanking new to the business world, or right out of college there might be something, albeit very little, here that you can use; otherwise, don't waste your time.