
The Retail Management Formula
A Navigational Guide to Consistently Effective Retail Management
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Jon Dario
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The world of retail management presents numerous challenges. Maximizing effectiveness is the goal of every retail manager, but solutions are often difficult to find. In The Retail Management Formula: A Navigational Guide to Consistently Effective Retail Management, author Jon Dario pulls from his extensive experience in retail management and leadership to offer clear, concise, and practical tools designed specifically for retail managers.
This book provides tangible and practical methods for turning ideas into action. With step-by-step instructions for establishing effective retail management routines, Dario delivers a complete program for laying the foundations of strong managerial behavior. The principles presented here can be used by both individual retail managers to achieve success and by senior leaders of an organization to serve as the core of their management training and development program.
The Retail Management Formula is a must-have book for any retail manager or organization interested in driving consistent execution on the part of their retail teams.
©2014 Jon Dario (P)2016 Jon DarioListeners also enjoyed...
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- Sabrina Abercrombie
- 03-03-18
G.O.A.T!!
this book is the best road map for tenure or/and new managers. truly helpful in my retail management Journey
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- Eric Jones
- 03-05-19
Got To Be A Better Way To Deal With Tables
I love the way the narrator performed most of the book. He used different voices where appropriate, and it helped to bring those areas of the book to life.
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When it came time to discuss the books charts, graphs, and tables it was painful. It felt like nearly a third of the book was him describing a table in visual terms. It sounded like, "...and this column is slightly shorter than the last one, and a little bit wider."
It became so monotonous that all of the meaning held within the table was completely lost. Consequently, I'm not sure if The Retail Management Formula will work for your store or not. Perhaps the print version would be helpful.
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- MariaV
- 02-21-24
Great content!
Great content and explanation about retail. Very applicable to really any retail business and has very clear examples and sxplanations
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- Ricardo Mora
- 02-21-19
For initiate in a Retail Possition
Focused on formats and control for a Retail management possition. Interesting but not revealing, as I wrote on the title for initiating in the possition.
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- Angela Price
- 02-02-23
No PDF
In this book he speaks of illustrations very often that seem to be key points in this book.Some audibles come with PDF that will show this. I feel like I missed important parts of this book because the illustrations are not included.
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