Bøger af Kristen Mcalister

A food scientist turned business owner, Carrie started helping people commercialize their recipes and grew the business to a thriving company. But she was managing everything herself. The unsustainability of this became clear 15 years in, when a fire erupts at her manufacturing plant. She is miles away and feels helpless. This devastating feeling gets worse when she arrives at the plant a short time later to find her team standing around watching the fire burn. Carrie knows there's a better way to run and grow her company. Finding Leadership chronicles her path from being an exhausted business owner to having her business run without her. Through the tools detailed in this book, Carrie learns to: Determine her most meaningful role and what she enjoys doing - and not doing.Decide where she wants the company to go and what is needed to get there.Align her existing team with what needs to be done and fill any gaps.Create a leadership team that is aligned and driving to the destination Carrie has mapped.Remove the roadblocks and get forward movement, so she is leading her company - instead of it leading her.>Carrie's journey will seem both familiar and revolutionary. Finding Leadership will give you the company you always wanted. More importantly, it will give you your life back.

How do you turn a multidecade career, varying roles of responsibility, and increasing seniority into a cohesive and transferable solution set that potential customers and employers will easily understand? It's not the sum of what you have done; it's the outcomes and results of what you do best. By evaluating the highest and best use of all your leadership experience, you can make substantive, long-lasting results in the companies you serve. The Solution Executive will take you step by step from the darkness of the resumé world to the light of confidently knowing whom you help and how you can help them. This book will show you how to: Turn a successful, decades-long career into a brand, where your experience and skills are transferable, easy to understand, memorable, and will outlast any company or career transition.Build an independent executive business plan that creates a sustainable and scalable pipeline of business.Become a thought-leader.Create strategic partnerships.Know when to say "no" and when to say "yes" - and how to make it easy to get to "yes".>The Solution Executive teaches you how to make it easy for prospective clients to: Understand what problems you solve and how you help companies.Remember you.Trust you can solve their problem.Take the chance and move forward with you as their solution.Transform your resumé into your compelling solution story.