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NOBLE ENTERPRISE

The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People & Profits

To build and lead successful companies, today’s corporate leaders and business owners need to tap the full range of human knowledge - and spirit. NOBLE ENTERPRISE provides insights and guidance that help them do just that, with the inspiring story of one company's dramatic turnaround. The Noble Enterprise model is a proven approach that every corporate leader and business owner can use to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity.

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Create the BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH You Want 
Secrets and Strategies from the World's Greatest Business Mentors

by Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen, Darwin Gillett and 57 other leaders.

-Ken Blanchard,                          
co-author of The One Minute Manager® 
& The On-Time, On-Target Manager

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eBooklets

Revitalize Your Company: Twelve Steps for Tapping Human Energy to Regenerate Growth and Profitability

by Darwin Gillett, © 2002

While the immediate reaction during an economic downturn is to lay off staff and cut costs, what next? The big challenge is to get the remaining people motivated again and regain lost momentum and market position. This booklet describes twelve steps you can take to revitalize your organization.

Spiritual Capital: Building Vibrant Businesses that serve Shareholders and Humanity

by Darwin Gillett, © 2000 - 2002

Intellectual Capital is only part of the Human Capital needed to fuel business success. The other part is Spiritual Capital, the energy of the human spirit. This booklet identifies the sources of spiritual capital, how to attract and grow it, and how to utilize it to generate superior performance.

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Leading Through Tough Times: Ten Strategies for Generating Success

by Darwin Gillett – American Management Association’s Newsletter Performance and Profits – Achieving Business Results through People, November 2010

When times are tough, traditional management methods and business strategies are not enough to help leaders succeed. In this article we look at ten strategies that successful business leaders use to achieve results far above the norm.

Moving Beyond the "Either Or" of Human Spirit and Profits 

by Darwin Gillett - EBBF Inspire eNewsletter, 
Feb. 2006

Business owners and corporate executives seeking ways to create sustainable growth and profitability would do well to take a look at a movement that is transforming employees, managers and companies into sustainable high performing winners.

Bringing a Company Back to Life – the Role of a CEO 

by Darwin Gillett - At Work Journal, May/June 1999

When a company is losing money, customers and employees - when it is sinking fast - what does it take to make it not only viable, but successful? In such times, the CEO’s decisions about strategy and finance are critical, but they aren’t everything. Just as important are the values, beliefs and spirit the CEO brings to the job of breathing life back into the organization. This is the story of one such CEO and the company (AT&T Canada) that he revitalized.

Leaders Helping Each Other

Carol Coutrier and Darwin Gillett - At Work Journal, 
Nov./Dec. 1998

What kind of help do leaders need? Special skills or training? More advice from experts? Maybe what they need is very simple… just a chance to connect with each other, a place to talk through their dilemmas, tell their stories, and listen to others. Here is the story of how one group of leaders came together and what they achieved—for themselves, for each other, and for their businesses—as a result.

Rebuilding the Human Spirit after Downsizing

by Darwin Gillett - PIMA (Paper Industry Management Association) Journal, December 1996

Downsizing seems automatically to increase profitability (the simple math is: fewer employees = lower costs = higher profits), but the thinking leaves out two important facts: 1) Revenues are in large part created by the employees of a company and are thus not independent of the number of employees, and may very likely decline also, and equally important, 2) human spirit (and thus Spiritual Capital) declines when people are let go and the remaining employees become scared or resentful. Thus downsizing is not necessarily the answer for raising profitability. So, raising human spirit back up becomes critical after such downsizing.

That's the Spirit! Sharing the Wealth of Corporate Energy

by Darwin Gillett - Business Spirit Journal, Oct./Nov. 1997

Learn about the role of "heart energy."

Harness Your 'Personal Power' for Greater Productivity

by Darwin Gillett - Productivity Improvement Bulletin, May 25, 1983

Personal power is a positive approach to managing that inspires and enables people to go beyond their best.

Better QCs: A need for more manager action

by Darwin Gillett - Management Review, January, 1983

Employee involvement approaches, such as Quality circles can succeed only when guided by leadership that stresses specific goals and results.

When Productivity Needs a Boost...

by Darwin Gillett - Hartford Courant, July 20, 1982

Power has an important place in managing for productivity improvement—albeit a different sort of power than we perhaps normally think of. It is a power that inspires and enables, rather than coerces.

Hard times? Manage results, not just resources

by Darwin Gillett and Ronald N. Ashkenas - Advanced Management Journal, Autumn 1981

In trying to increase profits, many managers focus more on the denominator, resources, than on the numerator, results, of the profitability equation, cutting staff on the assumption that they can achieve the same or better results with fewer people. Although this strategy occasionally works in the short term, there are hidden costs that over time often cancel out the gains. Darwin Gillett, head of Gillett Associates (Bath, Maine and Greenwich, Connecticut) and Ronald N. Ashkenas, a member of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates (Stamford, Connecticut), believe that management attention is best focused on getting better results from existing resources, and they offer a three-step program for doing just that.