Create, Sustain a High Performance Firm: Engage, Commit, Grow!, Published by Outskirts Press

Nov. 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Engage, Commit, Grow!: How to Create and Sustain a Culture of High Performance by Larry Smith.  The author's most recent book to date is a 6 x 9 paperback in the business, economics and leadership category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/engagecommitgrow was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
   


Based on twenty-five years of facilitating growth and productivity in small and medium-sized companies, Larry Smith’s new book shares the “how to” of creating a culture of high performance and then sustaining it.

It is not that difficult.  But it does take courage because one must begin with an Assessment; i.e. a reality check.  One needs to take a measure of management’s stewardship, so the removal of rose-colored glasses is the first requirement.  

The bottom line is: How one’s employees behave is a critical ingredient.  How one leads determines how they behave.

151 pages in length, Engage, Commit, Grow!: How to Create and Sustain a Culture of High Performance is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the business, economics and leadership category.  With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Engage, Commit, Grow! meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $24.95.

Additionally, Engage, Commit, Grow! can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432763206   Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream   SRP: $24.95


For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/engagecommitgrow.

About the author:

Larry Smith’s business career has been one of service to a variety of companies in the fields of marketing, advertising, consumer research, new product development and the facilitation of strategic planning, team building and empowerment.  He’s served for many years in advertising agency management and has directed client services of a new product “think tank” that worked successfully for clients such as Borden’s, General Mills, Star Kist, Green Giant, Hunt Wesson, Crown Zellerbach, Libby, H.J. Heinz, Schlitz, General Foods and Ore-Ida.  He founded his consulting practice in 1985.

He serves as Management Facilitator, helping companies develop long-term strategies and short-term action plans.  His interest is in helping his clients become empowered organizations with high performance teamwork and improved productivity.

Larry is a University of Minnesota graduate and was Student Body President his senior year.  He served as Tiburon Peninsula Foundation President from 1995 to 2005 and is a former councilman and Mayor of Tiburon, California, where he has lived for the past thirty-five years.  He was Tiburon’s “Citizen-of-the-Year” in 2001.  

He and his wife raised three children and enjoy their new roles as grandparents to four boys and three girls.  Larry is an avid wilderness-canoeing enthusiast.  He also is a skier, sailor and gourmet cook.  To learn more about Larry Smith, visit his website, www.theLarrySmithCompany.com.

About Outskirts Press, Inc.

Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.