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Title: Low-Hanging Fruit

Subtitle: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits

Author: Jeremy Eden, Terri Long

Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Every day, thousands of hidden and ignored problems frustrate workers and customers and, in turn, reduce profits. The key to finding and fixing these problems is to engage employees closest to the work and closest to the customer in new ways so they can contribute their ideas. This book provides rules that, if followed, will allow employees to harvest all the low hanging fruit - and some that is not so low hanging - that will grow earnings, make customers happier, and increase morale. Some examples of these rules include:

Members Reviews:

A fantastic "pick-and-choose" implementation manual

Very good book for professionals seeking an easy read, but also to receive some good nuggets of information that can take their ideas to the next level. Personally, I felt as though most of the "good stuff" came toward the middle to the end of the book. Also, it is curious as to why they set up the book with each idea representing a chapter so that many of the chapters were only a couple pages in length. For me, it would have benefited the author to go into more details and examples for each idea.

Because there were so many chapters, I found a couple of instances where the authors, co-written by Jeremy Eden and Terri Long, contradicted themselves (slightly) on some minor points. For example, in chapter 10, they claim you should not brainstorm for solutions, instead brainstorm for problems. Yet The solution-finding sessions that they refer to later in the book sound a lot like brainstorming to me but that's just my take.

With that said, the flip side advantage to many chapters with many ideas is that you can pick and choose what works best for your organization. For example, chapter 50, "For Big Results, Focus on Small Ideas" was a great chapter and ended up being a hit at my company because we communicated incentives to all of our supervisors and superintendents to come up with ideas for small changes that could be made in their areas that would benefit our bottom line where small = about $25,000 in savings. Well when you have over 100 functions in your company, this idea pays off quite nicely, especially if you can realize those savings YOY. So for that 2-page chapter, it was money worth spending on the book.

Concise and highly usable advice from two obviously seasoned pros

I have consulted to many companies, and I think this (concise and accessible) book is mandatory for businesses of virtually any size. There is no company that can't benefit from better utilization of its resources, greater efficiency in how it manages its expenses, and an all-around more thorough understanding of its true problems - and opportunities - and how to best resolve the problems and capitalize on the opportunities.

Unlike so many other books on business that have one or two great ideas padded out to several hundred pages, "Low Hanging Fruit" presents, well, 77 distinct ideas and concepts. Many will have differing relevance to companies at various times in their evolution, but the overall impact is compelling. As others here have mentioned, the magic is in how easily the authors apply the concepts to a variety of situations and examples. It's clear that they've truly - and painfully - been there and done that.

I've read it twice so far, since the ideas come so quickly.