Leaders today must be able to embed resiliency into their organizations and to re-position change as a natural process. Being an effective change agent has become a critical leadership competency for 21st Century leaders. With these factors in mind, we are proposing a new approach to change in this book (the C6 Change Leadership Framework), as a means to mitigate “Change Fatigue” and to enhance a leader’s ability to positively affect change in their organizations.
This book will enable leaders to manage change in a more proactive, tailored and engaged manner to increase the likelihood of achieving the expected outcomes of the change initiatives.
Too many smart and well-educated young professionals struggle growing and finding success simply because they lack powerful insights on how to address the main root causes of slow growth. The Road to Champagne empowers professionals everywhere—including you—to accelerate career growth by clearly presenting how to remove such root causes. The logical framework consists of 13 principles; each one illustrated by real events and supported by practical actions to help you embed them in your life.
This pragmatic career guide is perfect for any professional with room to grow; hence, it will help:
Those starting their career including students, recent grads, and those who are several years into their career
More seasoned professionals with untapped growth potential
“The Road to Champagne is the ultimate tool guide to understanding how you can achieve your next steps, with actionable and powerful advice to navigate you through the process!” according to award-winning Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s leading executive educators, coaches, and New York Times #1 bestselling author.
If you enjoyed the The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People or The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, you will love The Road to Champagne.
Cheers to your many upcoming career achievements, you are about to turbocharge your drive to success!
“Having this book in hand is almost as good as having donalee in person. The Plain Language training she provided for our staff got rave reviews and, most importantly, results. People learned skills they were able to immediately put into practice. It became clear during the workshops, as in this book, that she is an expert in her field. She really knows her stuff! A must read for anyone who wants to communicate clearly.” –Lynn Bruce,Marketing & Outreach Officer, Vermont Department for Children and Families
“donalee has been my go-to authority on clear, concise and effective writing for over three decades. In this easy-to-read, practical and entertaining guide to ‘saying what you mean and meaning what you say,’ she uses wit and wisdom to tackle the challenging and technical aspects of effective writing. This is a must-read for everyone from novice to professional on how to communicate with precision and impact.” –Cathy Jacob, Writer, leadership coach, Co-founder of Fire Inside Leadership Inc.
The Thong Principle has little to do with beachwear and everything to do with effective communication. It’s about ensuring messages are successful for the sender – and the receiver.
The book delves into the elements that comprise successful communications – conciseness, clarity, concreteness, and much more. It also puts those elements into context. Communications that miss the mark confuse and annoy. They fail to deliver their message. They damage our credibility and erode goodwill.
The Thong Principle overflows with real-world examples to help us understand why we fail to get our messages across as intended.
Then it explains how we can anticipate, identify, and correct errors and oversights. This is both at the highest level – including building and maintaining trust – and down in the weeds where even one word makes a difference.
The Thong Principle will draw you in and keep you reading with:
Examples
Exercises
Information that resonates.
It’s also funny. Laughter and learning are wonderful partners.
“A great read. A good summary of the challenges of implementing emerging technology.” –Andy Kowalski MRSC MIScT FCMI, Freelance Consultant
“A compelling guide to the latest FinTech trends.” –Kevin Sloane, Financial Services Specialist
Financial Services and Technology (FinTech) have collaborated for decades with mutual benefit, and it is not unreasonable to expect this co-operation to continue, especially with the development of emerging technologies.
However, both industries are facing challenges. Financial Services suffer from regulation, client, and risk pressures. Emerging technologies suffer from their inherent complexity and implementation challenges.
It is imperative that Financial Services’ firms understand emerging technologies to ensure they are implemented effectively to support both current business and future challenges.
This book takes a pragmatic and critical review of Emerging Technologies exploring
What the technologies are?
How they can be used?
How they can be implemented pragmatically?
How they could help address future challenges?
This book provides an overview of emerging technologies within Financial Services to allow firms to understand their real benefits and how to pragmatically implement them for maximum benefit.
Gone are the days of worshipping movie stars and athletes only for their talent. Everyday people are fast becoming the new celebrities and thus influencers for Millennials and Generation Z. In the past few years, social media influencers dominate pop culture and brands are eager to work with them to build their brands. From music to gaming; from fashion to sports; from wellness to lifestyle branding there are more than 50 million people calling themselves “creators” and many are influencers amassing a highly engaged community. For brands, what are the most effective ways to identify and cultivate influencers and support content creation?
This book is for anyone who wants to understand the landscape of influencer marketing with an eye for collaborations between influencers and companies. Perfect for brand managers and agency professionals, up and coming influencers, and students wanting to enter this exciting field of marketing, this book combines practical advice and examples with an overview of the academic insights to date. Topics include creators and the creator economy, typology of influencers, how to work with them, considerations for campaign design and implementation.
Celebrity 2.0: The Role of Social Media Influencer Marketing to Build Brands is a great primer to the influencer marketing ecosystem and the influencer marketing relationship framework to learn how content marketing, native advertising and content marketing all come together.
“Patterson doesn’t offer tricks, gimmicks, or slogans of ten-steps-to-happiness. This is a book of deep wisdom as well as practical advice. Anyone who reads it will be wiser—and happier on the job—for it.” –Mark Walters, Professor, University of South Florida
Burn Ladders. Build Bridges. undoes the status-quo of career enhancement. Tearing up the playbook and finding breakthrough ways to create impact, build meaning, fuel your passion to do bigger, greater things–while enjoying the entire journey. No matter what stage you’re currently in.
Maybe you’re going from college to career and wondering how on earth you’re going to unlock all the business world has to offer.
Or maybe you’re the experienced professional who wants more out of their lot in life and to make work abundantly more fulfilling.
Or maybe you want to be that leader–the one who connects. Engages. Inspires. But haven’t had the mentor or the training to set you up for success.
No matter what your goals, what lies on these pages can put you on a path. An enlightening one.
Unlike other career wisdom, you’ll find the balance of theory and practicality. Of success and connection. And be able to demonstrate leadership and find your purpose in whatever position you’re in, organization you work for or business you create.
Burn Ladders. Burn Bridges. is ready to help you find the inherent joy in it all. Are you?
Agile is the ability to quickly and naturally adapt to respond to changes.Most companies are inherently fragile and not agile – when they are hit by new developments, shifting consumer behavior or fast-moving competition, they struggle and even cease to exist!
Inner Building Blocks is a novel about Neil Frost, a Director of Digital Transformation and Agile Centre of Excellence at Walkers Mart. The company is already grappling with a failing transformation and on the verge of bankruptcy when COVID-19 strikes!
Sid, the Coach instils constructive discomfort through a series of probing questions to:
Rethink agility and reimagine the future of work with hybrid operating models.
Launch a series of experiments to reinvent the Building Blocks (e.g., strategy, talent, culture, structures, practices and digital technologies).
Discover twenty-six solutions to embrace lean-agile mindset for strategic agility.
Could the company survive amid the global pandemic and ensuing supply chain challenges?
A compelling storytelling approach and provocative dialogues provide relatable context to adopt the concepts. The principles and techniques are delicately camouflaged within the underlying characters, their conversations and situations.
Protecting the Brand, Volume II: Busting the Bootlegs follows Volume I which provides a unique combination of legal and business best practices related to intellectual property protection.
This second volume showcases U.S. states specific legal statues and examples related to legal approach to counterfeiting and grey market issues. The primary emphasis is to prove advice to U.S. companies navigating the complex domestic legislation and provide a single source of reference for both law practitioners and those tasked with intellectual property rights enforcement and compliance who need to understand the applicable state legislation.
Both volumes of this book are focused on leveraging trademark enforcement while also commenting on copyright and patent enforcement, establishing a framework for successful brand protection in the future.
“Thomas Sieber’s book is an invaluable resource for any board and management team seeking to improve its performance. His deep understanding of top teams, the insights of seasoned board members, and his own board experiences shed light on how boards can function better.“?–Amy Edmondson, Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School, Author of the Fearless Organization
“This book serves as a precious guide to navigating the many human challenges boards are facing—it is practical, hands-on, and written by somebody who understands the topic in-depth—and this not only from a theoretical but also practical, proven angle.” – Marco Gadola, Chairman DKSH and Medartis, former CEO of Straumann Group
Board members often struggle to identify their true role, caught between the Chair and the executive board. As a result, board members frequently have doubts about their role and personal impact; doubts which are rarely acknowledged nor addressed. By focusing on the most impactful driver of success – the human behavior – the author explores how to create a strong board team whose members are clear about the team’s role, are able to talk about their concerns, and are therefore also comfortable to listen, to challenge, and to support.
Based on around 60 interviews around the globe and his own board experience, this book will help Chairs to form a strong team, build a resilient relationship with the CEO, assess how to use their considerable power, and when to show self-restraint. Navigating the Boardroom supports board members and managers in reflecting on how to navigate the complex web of boardroom relations and provides both practical and attitudinal tips.
Starting up a business is one of the most interesting journeys you can take up in your life; it’s your ‘only shot’ and a ‘big risk’. It can be stressful, chaotic and filled with many sleepless nights, but the payout is always worth it if you do your job right.
In this book, we lead you through every single step in building a start-up. The book discusses how to keep your startup running and stop it from falling into the pitfalls. We cover everything you need – from choosing your name and logo to operational methods to decision making to timing your launch.
Ready to ride the rocket ship that is being an entrepreneur? Strap yourself in!
