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Individual Performer
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"A barefoot kid’s journey from climbing coconut and guava trees in Hawaii to climbing the corporate ladder.”
The author grew up in a small town in Hawaii: surfing, spearfishing, and hunting exotic fruits in the local rainforest, never imagining that he would one day work for a multinational corporation in Los Angeles. He started as a computer programmer with the highly demanding business suits only Electronic Data Systems (EDS), founded by Ross Perot. He rose through the ranks to become team leader, supervisor, project manager, manager, and the head of EDS’ 192-person Southern California Systems Engineering/Solution Center in Los Angeles/Orange County. He retired after 32+ years with the company.
The author provides hard-earned career and management advice that he learned through years of trial and error while working in the trenches with people, teams, projects, and organizations. Throughout the book, he uses personal examples to vividly describe the interactions, confrontations, successes and failures, and lessons learned. You’ll get a sense of the highs of thanking and rewarding, coaching and mentoring, and celebrating with people on their achievements, to the lows of performance warnings and terminations, to holding all-hands meetings to announce salary freezes and layoffs.
Individual Performer to Manager has received praise as a career and management guide by:
The author grew up in a small town in Hawaii: surfing, spearfishing, and hunting exotic fruits in the local rainforest, never imagining that he would one day work for a multinational corporation in Los Angeles. He started as a computer programmer with the highly demanding business suits only Electronic Data Systems (EDS), founded by Ross Perot. He rose through the ranks to become team leader, supervisor, project manager, manager, and the head of EDS’ 192-person Southern California Systems Engineering/Solution Center in Los Angeles/Orange County. He retired after 32+ years with the company.
The author provides hard-earned career and management advice that he learned through years of trial and error while working in the trenches with people, teams, projects, and organizations. Throughout the book, he uses personal examples to vividly describe the interactions, confrontations, successes and failures, and lessons learned. You’ll get a sense of the highs of thanking and rewarding, coaching and mentoring, and celebrating with people on their achievements, to the lows of performance warnings and terminations, to holding all-hands meetings to announce salary freezes and layoffs.
Individual Performer to Manager has received praise as a career and management guide by:
- Kirkus (among the top 10% of Indie reviewed books, Nov 2019).
- The San Francisco Book Review (Star Rating 5 of 5, Dec 2019).
- Publishers Weekly/BookLife (Jan 2020, with a sponsored author Q&A in their June 29, 2020, Edition - "Great for fans of Bill George’s True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, and Peter F. Drucker’s The Effective Executive.").
