With humble beginnings in a small, low-income home in Pittsburgh to over 40 years of business experience including serving as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and member of several Corporate boards of directors, Being a Corporate officer and running a $20 billion global operation for Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Operations, Worldwide, Rande Somma has seen some things in the context of Leadership That deeply disturbed him.
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He recognized this as a Leadership System That doesn\'t serve us anymore, and therefore, it is the System That is the problem.
It was not just the auto industry having a bad year or two; the pattern was repeated in other companies and industries and in other Leadership situations.
While many of his stories are based on his own experience in the auto industry, Somma sees the problem as a more pervasive issue.
Somma demonstrates through his personal stories and others\' experiences how Corporate American Leadership has descended into leadershit.
This truth That was once unacceptable has now become not just acceptable but expected and normal with regard to Leadership in Corporate America.
The author presents a narrative about what he perceives as a serious and disturbing truth That is incrementally infecting companies both large and small.
This book is about what we have surrendered in the process of our hyper focus on financial gains, and That includes the exceptional return on investment of integrity.
While Leaders we hire are supposed to be individuals talented in the art of leading people, they are now those guys and gals who are more talented at Being financial wizards and creating the illusion That the business is fundamentally sound.
The author contends That what is considered to be successful and the best has changed over the past several years or decades to refer almost exclusively to financial gain.
Recently, American businesses have been looking for and hiring Leaders who are willing to do anything to elevate our companies to be successful, to be the best.
His book looks at lowered standards for leaders, higher compensation, and the path of convenience, fraud, greed, and corruption That Leaders are more often choosing over obligation to their duties.
Somma brings an empathetic top-down perspective to the problem of Corporate Leadership and the chasm of disconnect That often exists between the workers, management, and the C-suite executives.
With humble beginnings in a small, low-income home in Pittsburgh to over 40 years of business experience including serving as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and member of several Corporate boards of directors, Being a Corporate officer and running a $20 billion global operation for Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Operations, Worldwide, Rande Somma has seen some things in the context of Leadership That deeply disturbed him
