Las Mejores Empresas Americanas

|FROM JOHN CASPOLE’S DESK |
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|America's Best Companies and How They Do It|
|Organizations that are flourishing in this economy must have it easy, right? You know which ones they are. Their products and/or |
|services are always in demand. If economic downturns have touched them, it is not apparent to the outside world. In fact, they are|
|the envy of the rest of the world and have many people asking, "Can we start selling what they are selling?"|
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|The most important question is not what are they selling, but how are they succeeding. |
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|We have answers for you right here, taken from Profiles research. What we have learned from studying hundreds of America's best |
|companies and conducting interviews with their top leaders is that productive people play a large part in making these |
|organizations go. These companies make the job look easy because their management of people is part of a well-executed plan.|
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|Our survey included more than 1,600 publicly traded U.S. companies and helped reveal the practices that enable them to out-produce|
|their colleagues down the street or across the country. Here are five common traits of America's best organizations:|
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|1. Their cultures are driven by performance, and this performance is the result of an understanding shared by the company’s top |
|leaders. Leaders not only understand the current culture, but they know what the company will look and feel like, andhow it will |
|operate, next year and in 10 years. They work as a team and have the skills, tools and experience to bring in only the people who |
|will best fit their culture. They have the courage to reject even highly qualified workers who are not a good match to the |
|culture.|
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|2. Top managers are highly effective. The managers of top U.S. companies are not only personally successful, but they also ensure |
|that the individuals for whom they take responsibility are successful too. The effectiveness of these managers flowsfrom natural |
|talent, and it requires them to communicate, lead others, adapt quickly to change, skillfully build personal relationships, manage|
|tasks with efficiency, take action that gets results, and develop others as well as themselves. |
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|Top companies know what it takes to select, train and retain top managers. |
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|3. High-performance companies accomplish more work with fewer people because they know exactly what everyone...