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Excellence Wins

A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise

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Excellence Wins

By: Horst Schulze, Dean Merrill, Ken Blanchard - introduction
Narrated by: Michael Wagner
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In his characteristic no-nonsense approach, Horst Schulze shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have led to immense global success over the course of his still-prolific fifty-year career in the hospitality industry.

In Excellence Wins, the cofounder and former president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company lays out a blueprint for becoming the very best in a world of compromise and half measures.

For over twenty years, Schulze fearlessly led the company to unprecedented multibillion dollar growth, setting the business vision and people-focused standards that made the Ritz-Carlton brand world renowned. In Excellence Wins, Schulze shares his approach to everything from providing the best customer service to creating a culture of excellence within your organization.

With his tried-and-true methods and inspiring, hard-earned wisdom, Schulze teaches you everything you need to know about:

  • Why leading well is an acquired skill
  • Serving your customers
  • Engaging your employees
  • Creating a culture of customer service
  • Why vision statements make a difference
  • What it really means to practice servant leadership

Schulze's principles are designed to be versatile and practical no matter where you are in your career. He'll remind you that you don't need a powerful title or dozens of direct reports to benefit from the advice he shares in Excellence Wins--you have everything you need to apply it to your life and career right now.

Let Schulze's incredible story help you unleash the disruptive power of your true potential, beat the competition, own your career trajectory, and experience the game-changing power of what happens when Excellence Wins.

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Loved the story and examples throughout the book. It bought the book to life. looking forward to trying some of the suggestions.

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Absolutely terrific book that gives a clear guide on how to be the best in your sphere of influence. Horst takes you on a journey of where his pursuit of excellence began and how you too can achieve it.

Excellence Does Win and This Demonstrates That

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Success don’t come to you , you go to it .

Amazing success story about great culture and awesome standards created by reparative reminder to all staff to adhere together to one vision Re unbelievable client experience 👍

Must read by all business owners no matter how big or small and all staff to enjoy the work and work place .

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Loved it, the wisdom in this book, regarding service excellence is unmatched. Very practical also.

unmatched wisdom about excellence in service

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Unless your customers are already robots, you must read this book. Treating everyone with dignity, outstanding.

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