Profit Building: Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

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Summary: A Business Communications Tool
Review: As a corporate management communications and marketing consultant, my firm is often asked to help managers discuss cost cutting campaigns with their staff. Perry Ludy's book is the perfect primer to serve as the basis for such projects. While keeping the bottom line front and foremost, the premise of the book is employee involvement. Using the techniques in Profit Building, good management communications literally fall into place. I am ordering copies for two current client projects and will be looking for ways to weave it in to additional work.

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Summary: This amazing process really works!
Review: I have had the distinct pleasure of seeing Perry Ludy's ideas put into action while working with him at both PepsiCo and Envirotest Systems, and I know they really work. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in going beyond team training and empowerment to directly improving the bottom line in your organization.

Perry's "Questions Brainstorming" offers an excellent method for managers to improve both the quantity and quality of questions and answers generated in a team-friendly environment. He offers many ideas for getting a team and organization energized towards improving profits using this unique approach.

If for no other reason, you should consider getting a copy of this book because it has dozens of cost-saving and profit-increasing suggestions in a wide variety of areas that can immediately impact your business.

Simply put, Perry's processes work and the results will amaze even the most skeptical.

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Summary: Profit Building - Cutting Cost Without Cutting People
Review: If you are looking for a way to increase profits in your organization, I strongly recommend that you start by first reading Profit Building - Cutting Costs Without Cutting People. Mr. Ludy takes you step by step though the process of building an on-going profit build team for your organization. We have used it as a blueprint for our company and it has really turned our employees. The book moves fast and I found it to be an easy read.

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Summary: A new standard of excellence
Review: Perry Ludy has written a dramatic wake-up call for any manager responsible for bottom line results. In recent years we have learned how to improve most business processes significantly using work redesign, teams, quality and other tools. But few managers apply these proven approaches to profit building as a standalone process.

From his own extensive experience managing both staff groups and a variety of line organizations, Ludy provides practical guidance for involving employees in focused cost reduction and profit building initiatives. He points us toward new stands of excellence for managing in this twenty-first century.

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Summary: Harness The Power of People to Improve Profit
Review: Perry Ludy's book starts with the remarkably simple premise that most executives have forgotten: your employees are the key to top line growth and bottom line improvement. They have the knowledge, they want to help, and most of them will jump at the chance to contribute to the organization's success in a meaningful way. If you allow employees to use their brains, their hearts and hands will follow. Now there is a way to harness this untapped resource to improve your profitablity and turn on your employees.

Profit Building provides the road map for management to harness the power of people. It outlines a process that can produce improvements at all levels of the corporation, and results can start to be realized in a matter of weeks or months, not years. Mr. Ludy developed his PBP (Profit Building Process) during his business career, and he provides numerous examples of how he used it successfully at both large and small corporations. The steps are outlined in such a way that your managers will want to keep the book with them at all times as a desk reference. This is a "must read" for management at all levels.