Soup: A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture
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Product Description
Why it matters who’s stirring the potSoup offers an inspirational business fable that explains the “recipe” you can use to create a winning culture and boost employee morale and engagement. The story follows Nancy, the newly anointed CEO of America’s Favorite Soup Company. She has been brought in to reinvigorate the brand and bring success back to a company that has lost its flavor and profit and has fallen on hard times. Fatefully, while eating lunch at a lo… More >>
Soup: A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture
Soup is a business fable that can be digested in about an hour or two. It is the story of a new CEO that is brought in to rescue a failing soup company. She gets advice along the way from the owners of a small family-run restaurant that serves – you guessed it – soup! The author makes the case that the ingredients for a successful family run restaurant are similar to those required to run a large corporation. The key is the love and caring for the people. Relationships are king. Take care of the people and they will take care of the rest – the customers, the profits, etc.
With each chapter the CEO learns a new ingredient and incorporates it into her company. The outcome of the fable is predictable. Within a few months, the new CEO is able to influence positive cultural change which, in turn, propels the business toward growth and prosperity.
The recipe for success is not a new one, but it is rarely followed. Some of the basics include – sharing the vision, matching the purpose of the company to those of the employees, communicating transparently, showing appreciation. Bottom Line: Create a positive culture with an engaged workforce and watch the exceptional results that follow.
If more people followed this hearty recipe rather than ingesting a steady diet of junk food, we’d have many more healthy companies.
– Nick McCormick, Author, Lead Well and Prosper: 15 Successful Strategies for Becoming a Good Manager
Rating: 4 / 5
Nick McCormick
1 Aug 10 at 8:05 am
This book inspired me it’s right true positive thinking, inspirational, success, motivational, energy and leadership.
Rating: 3 / 5
RD
1 Aug 10 at 9:38 am
Jon Gordon is a master of the business parable, and Soup might well be his masterpiece. I picked it up from my bedside table thinking that I’d read a chapter or maybe two and didn’t put it down (except to find a pen and a highlighter) until I’d finished reading it. And I expect to go back again and re-read it within the next several weeks. Soup is a book that both looks back to the principles and practices that made the “built to last” companies attain lasting greatness, and that also looks forward to the qualities that will be essential for any organization to effectively compete in a tough world market in the years to come. I’m going to have everyone in my office read this wonderful book, and then we are going to make some great soup (we already make great soup but it’s going to be even greater once we put what’s in this book and what’s at the [...] website to work).
Rating: 5 / 5
Joe Tye
1 Aug 10 at 11:39 am
Like all of Jon’s books, an easy read that’s hard to put down. Great book for all team leaders to read. Will inspire you in your business and family life.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dougwheeler24
1 Aug 10 at 1:38 pm
Great job by Jon Gordon. I use his books as training tools for my staff. I have purchased multiple copies of every book he has written and each one provides just the right touch of humor and sense. Thumbs up from me!
Rating: 5 / 5
Renee Schofield
1 Aug 10 at 2:52 pm