Bob Prosen
Leaders want less talk, more action.--Hire people who are smarter than you.--Remove the obstacles and let your people perform.--Give the most to those who perform the best--Reward results not activities--At the beginning of the day, it's all about possibilities.
At the end of the day, it's all about results.
BOB PROSEN--Face reality. Never rationalize.

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Kiss Theory Good Bye

Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company

by Bob Prosen

Put down the textbooks, and start increasing
performance and profits today!

"Most management leadership books I read are confusingly complex and deliver no actionable information. Kiss Theory Good Bye is the exception. It lays out a nuts-and-bolts map for successful execution in any business."

Ken May
President and Chief Executive Officer
FedEx Kinko's

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NEW BUSINESS BOOK GIVES TEXTBOOK THEORY THE BIG KISS OFF!

Prosen says he's had enough of the business books that tell readers what to do rather than how. "Forget the platitudes and feel-good anecdotes from a few CEOs and business gurus. Get to the point, the how-to details that can actually help leaders get the results they need in the companies they run," Prosen counsels.

A smart business leader can achieve unprecedented bottom-line results by forsaking abstract discussions and vague textbook theory, shutting down endless excuses, killing off company politics, holding people accountable, and simply doing things that clearly work," says Prosen.

Kiss Theory Good Bye shows you how to quickly and consistently achieve extraordinary results in leadership, sales effectiveness, operational excellence, financial management, and customer loyalty.

Packed with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, this book will show you how to

  • Achieve consistent results, quarter after quarter
  • Align your entire workforce to meet the organization's top objectives
  • Increase accountability so you get the results you need
  • Attract and retain top talent
  • Beat your competition and lock in customer loyalty
  • Reduce costs while increasing quality
  • React less and have more time to plan
  • Make your job easier and your organization run more smoothly

While other business books try to tell you what to do to run your business better, faster and for greater profit, Bob Prosen's Kiss Theory Good Bye gives you the tools and step-by-step directions to make it happen. For leaders who demand superior results, Kiss Theory Good Bye delivers the goods for taking immediate and lasting action.

What Makes Kiss Theory Good Bye Exceptional?

  • Any organization can use it to improve results
  • Goes beyond "What To Do" and shows you "How To Do"
  • Better results are immediate
  • Keeps you focused on the significant few versus the important many
  • Benefits new managers and seasoned leaders
  • Provides straightforward answers without the need for translation

"Will Rogers once said, 'Nothing is more common than a good idea and nothing less common than a good idea carried out.' In a hard charging and confident manner Bob Prosen attacks head-on the problem that is at the core of so many companies' and organizations' lack of success, the glaring gap between planning and achieving the plan, and provides a crystal-clear road map to eliminating that gap."

Garrett Boone
The Container Store

Kiss Theory Good Bye

My goal for sharing my knowledge and experiences is to give you the answers you need to immediately enable your enterprise to achieve its full potential. Leaders want their ideas and initiatives consistently carried out without hassle and rework. They want accountability, and value results over theory. I wrote Kiss Theory Good Bye with two principles in mind. First, theory would be replaced with proven tools, tactics, and answers that get results. Second, all of the information must be relevant and directly applicable to today's business challenges without the need for translation.

Until now this information has only been available piecemeal, leaving you to find, assemble, and translate it to fit your business. You might have gathered some of it through mentors, by trial and error, or by surviving the "school of hard knocks." But by the time you finish reading Kiss Theory Good Bye, you will have the answers you need to immediately begin improving results throughout your entire organization. And you will find that this book will remain a useful resource for quick, proven answers to resolve your most pressing business challenges.

Bob Prosen has spent 25 years achieving the results presented in this book. He has developed the techniques that will enable you to accomplish them, too. Bob helped AT&T, Hitachi Data Systems, NCR, Sprint, and several mid-size companies including Sabre and Data Return, cut through the complexity of operational and financial challenges to achieve unprecedented bottom-line results.

What's more, Bob has spent years showing leaders and managers how they can improve their ability to execute. Bob has done this at Merrill Lynch and Public School Districts, Verizon, Crossmark, ARAMARK, NORTEL, City Sprint, HKS, and Rasa Floors, just to name a few.

As a leading businessman, Bob Prosen has achieved extraordinary results at Fortune 1000 corporations and mid-size companies. As a management training consultant, Bob shows leaders of all size companies, as well as not-for-profit organizations, how they can execute for top results. And as a business educator, he runs highly successful business-execution programs for The Prosen Center for Business Advancement.

Now, for the first time, Bob has distilled all of this experience into one clearly-written book that offers step-by-step guidance for achieving results.

Read Bob Prosen's . Apply its proven techniques. You'll achieve the results that you've always wanted and needed.

"If you demand superior results ... this is the real thing. Mr. Prosen cracks the code and gives us exactly what we want ... step-by-step instructions on how to achieve results that count. Do yourself a favor. Buy it."

Walter Jones
Group Technology Executive
Wells Fargo Bank

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