Largely because of Wall Street’s (and some CEO’s) continuing emphasis on quarterly profits, many business leaders are distracted in the most effective ways to build their companies. To truly produce a great company, and solid long term profits, leaders must accept the fact that the People are Everything.
Proper attention to the handling of the people, and how to energize them, will have a greater effect than over-applied attention to anything else, including the product, the finances, the facilities, or marketing. After all it is the people who do all the work, and the people are the ones that make everything happen. Carefully applying the eight ideas in this book can begin a change for the better that will astonish everyone.
About Lawrence Haines
The author, Lawrence A. Haines, began his career as a fresh-out-of-university mechanical engineer in a large worldwide manufacturing company making computer operated control valves, the high-tech end of the valve business. He and his partner worked their way up in that company until they were running operations worldwide.
With exciting new ideas to improve their field, they left to begin their own company, Valtek Incorporated. They built a successful international operation, in the same high-tech control field. Those who witnessed the new company growth, were astonished that it was possible to enter a market that already had several large and dominating competitors. The company, surprisingly, quickly threatened existing competitors.
Haines designed the leadership that placed Valtek in the international marketing arena within a few short years. The company was given “company of the year” awards by national investment groups.
The people of the company responded to the atmosphere and growth of the company with enthusiasm, and frequently related good feelings of being a part of the team, and the exciting things the company was doing.
Haines has extensive experience in organizing people worldwide, as well as knowledge of people and business in other countries. He has been sought as a speaker, with ideas, to people in many countries
His wide ranging experience with many businesses, and particularly the needs of people in those businesses, brings an insightful look at what it takes to have an energized and truly successful, profitable business. Here are a few words of importance from the former president and CEO of Valtek Incorporated.
Largely because of Wall Street’s (and some CEO’s) continuing emphasis on quarterly profits, many business leaders are distracted in the most effective ways to build their companies. To truly produce a great company, and solid long term profits, leaders must accept the fact that the People are Everything. 
The author, Lawrence A. Haines, began his career as a fresh-out-of-university mechanical engineer in a large worldwide manufacturing company making computer operated control valves, the high-tech end of the valve business. He and his partner worked their way up in that company until they were running operations worldwide.