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Les Schwab: Pride in Performance, Keep It Going!

Les Schwab

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  • Charlie MungerRecommendation
    Les Schwab’s Pride in Performance: Keep It Going appears in the Recommended reading section of Poor Charlie’s Almanack.
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Summary

Les Schwab recounts the beginnings and development of his tire business. His account focuses on building a company by helping employees succeed, bringing his own business story together with the practices he wanted the company to maintain.

  • SourceLes Schwab: Pride in Performance — reproduced book description · Book description; exact ISBN 9780892881512
  • SourceLes Schwab — licensed bibliographic record · Bibliographic information; Les Schwab author and publisher, 1986, recorded ISBN

Why read it Our view

Read it to consider the link between employees’ progress and a company’s progress. Schwab’s account gives founders a basis for asking what helps staff do better work and how a growing business can preserve the practices that matter to it.