Modern Leadership

Rewritten and updated for 2020 and beyond, The Perfect Storm offers realistic, practical, and inspired ideas, presented in a series of short chapters offering advice and useful tips. Based on 20 years experience in marketing, selling, analysis, and management, this book brings together the most useful strategies and some that many have forgotten that will really help you forge meaningful business growth during challenging times.

Sun Tzu was a master philosopher, strategist, and military general who lived during the Zhou dynasty, some 2500 years ago. Originally a military text of stratagem, The Art of War has influenced military and political leaders throughout the centuries. His ideas still hold true today and are highly applicable to the modern-day battleground: corporations.

Success is a choice. It’s a choice to make a sacrifice to change what is wrong and turn it into right. The sacrifice is letting go of past behaviors and to not miss them while embracing new behaviors designed for success. It’s a choice. A methodology to create success comes from systematically developing the models of excellence to achieve and awareness of dangers that attack the core of success. To embrace the methodology requires embracing the model and discerning the dangers.

Want to get smarter? Develop your EQ. Emotional energy is in many ways our most precious resource. Emotions are the fuel for absolutely everything we say, do and create, and emotions are directly responsible for the degree of personal and professional success that we enjoy in life. Successful people, no matter their profession or field of interest all have one key characteristic in common: they are masters of managing their emotional energy. Simply put, they control their emotions, and don’t let their emotions control them.

The Art of Lean: Production Systems and Marketing Strategies in the Modern Era explores a range of production and operations management systems, including the Toyota Production System, the Speedy System, the Henry Ford Assembly Line, and Zara Just In Time, as well as the marketing and branding strategies of the Golden Circle and the "Lucky strike—It's toasted" scene from Mad Men.

Historically, IT in many companies has had a reputation for being slow, expensive, and risk-averse. With the pace of business today, these practices must change quickly if companies are to thrive. This audiobook contains fascinating stories from the author's years at Microsoft that will help you modernize and change your IT team to accelerate your business, plus 100 short, practical, specific ways to improve business velocity in today‘s IT culture.