Connecting The Dots To Inspire The Leader In You

Shirley Taylor has inspired audiences around the world with her heart-warming stories and simple but powerful lessons. Now through the pages of this book, they will inspire readers to stay positive during challenging times and create new opportunities for growth and success. In looking back at the significant turning points in her life, Shirley shares the key lessons that have helped her to grow both professionally and personally. She then 'connects the dots' to reveal the common thread that runs through all these turning points. Shirley also includes inspiring insights from global leadership experts who share their own personal turning points and the lessons they have learned. In Connecting the Dots, Shirley provides down-to-earth advice and practical tools that will help people everywhere to navigate change, unlock their true potential, and drive their own success.

Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47 billion tech giant that was the backbone of the internet and a leader in areas from cybersecurity to data center convergence. Along the way, he had acquired 180 companies and turned more than 10,000 employees into millionaires. Widely recognized as an innovator, an industry leader, and one of the world's best CEOs, Chambers has outlasted and outmaneuvered practically every rival that ever tried to take Cisco on--Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, IBM, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. Now Chambers is sharing his unique strategies for winning in a digital world. From his early lessons and struggles with dyslexia in West Virginia to his bold bets and battles with some of the biggest names in tech, Chambers gives readers a playbook on how to act before the market shifts, tap customers for strategy, partner for growth, build teams, and disrupt themselves. He also adapted those lessons to transform government, helping global leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create new models for growth. As CEO of JC2 Ventures, he's now investing in a new generation of game-changing startups by helping founders become great leaders and scale their companies. Connecting the Dots is destined to become a business classic, providing hard-won insights and critical tools to thrive during the accelerating disruption of the digital age.

Connecting the Dots: Deliberate Observations and Leadership Musings About Everyday Life By: Sean Heritage Dots signify two things. First, they represent the milestones, large and small, happy and sad, we enjoy throughout the journey of life. They additionally symbolize disparate pieces of data that by themselves mean far less than they do in the aggregate. This book is all about celebrating the lessons of life, enjoying the journey, and making sense of things along the way. Our quality of life and the value we deliver have everything to do with our ability to deliberately connect the dots. This book is a collection of observations applied to leadership, inspiration, communication, and, on occasion, parenting.

The topic of leadership is, undeniably, anything but simple given its multitudinous strategies, styles, and nuances. This book is designed to be a resource guide for readers interested in adopting proven strategies to achieve quality results. Its encyclopedic layout serves to make these complex topics easier to navigate and absorb. It is an exploration of a diverse variety of successful approaches to leadership spanning across business, government, and nonprofit sectors. This guide surveys effective strategies that have been around for decades, while integrating more current constructs based on new and cutting-edge research. Subject-matter experts who provide further and concise viewpoints are cited throughout.

In his inspiring new book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, Mark Sanborn, the author of the national bestseller The Fred Factor, shows how each of us can be a leader in our daily lives and make a positive difference, whatever our title or position. Through the stories of a number of unsung heroes, Sanborn reveals the keys each one of us can use to improve our organizations and enhance our careers. Genuine leadership – leadership with a “little l”, as he puts it, is not conferred by a title, or limited to the executive suite. Rather, it is shown through our everyday actions and the way we influence the lives of those around us. Among the qualities that genuine leaders share: • Acting with purpose rather than getting bogged down by mindless activity • Caring about and listening to others • Looking for ways to encourage the contributions and development of others rather than focusing solely on personal achievements • Creating a legacy of accomplishment and contribution in everything they do As readers across the country discovered in The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn has an unparalleled ability to explain fundamental business and leadership truths through simple stories and anecdotes. You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader offers an inspiring message to anyone who wants to take control of their life and make a positive difference.

Connect the Dots Connect the Dots is a take-everywhere-you-go playbook for small and medium business-owners and would-be entrepreneurs. The author uses his 30-plus years of practical experience as a corporate executive – and failed businessman! – to create a handy, practical guide that helps business owners and would-be entrepreneurs avoid the many pitfalls and bridge the numerous chasms. The ultimate read for 21st century entrepreneurs. This book is for you. Urging you to connect the dots between your business, customers and the bottom line and staying with you while you draw that line with a firm hand. Do let me know how it goes at [email protected] Happy entrepreneuring! John Lincoln Author Dubai and San Francisco

Advancement in telecommunications has drastically changed the way that people communicate, particularly in a professional capacity. The onslaught of e-mail, text and even instant messaging has given people other means with which to communicate with one another, but in doing, the art of personal, verbal and face-to-face communication is being lost, resulting in miscommunication and broken personal and professional relationships.