"Lil help?"
"I feel the pressure of crisis each day as a business leader. I'm thankful I have Rob as a coach to help discover tools to overcome threats and the confidence to thrive. Now, with this timely and impactful book, you too can benefit from Rob’s experience and lessons. Lesson #1: Accept that a crisis is coming. Don’t accept that you are not ready for it. Get Left and Right of the Boom!" Georgette Heller, Marketing and Communications Leader; DRTV Senior Director, TRANZACT
Final edits complete. This book heads to the printer this week! Available July 10th.
I'm asking for your help to put this coming book in the hands of leaders.
Forward this blog if you wish or:
Here is the pre-order link
Here is a link to my LinkedIn post
Here is a link to my Facebook post
Here is an excerpt of "Left and Right of the Boom. The Art of Leadership, Before, During, and After Crisis"
On the morning of March 8, 2009, I awoke after a restless night’s sleep on a remote base near the border of Pakistan. I was a United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and the Commander of 1 st Squadron, 40 th Cavalry Regiment, Airborne deployed to Afghanistan. That sunny, mild morning would turn dark. A life would be lost to an improvised explosive device or IED on the front end of a 12-month deployment - the life of Private First Class Patrick Devoe from Auburn, New York. At once my unit was thrust into crisis and it would need the best of my leadership.
Fast forward nearly 15 years, post-military and I was the owner of a small business - a window fashion company. We had suffered a series of bad customer experiences which could have had a lasting negative impact to the business and its people. We were on the cusp of a crisis which would again, need the best of my leadership.
These two scenarios (booms!) - vastly different in scale, would require the same leadership approach. They would require myself and my teams to get "left and right of the boom."
I wrote this book for leaders. In it I share stories of war and of small business under duress and how a leader can better prepare, lead, and learn from them. I'll offer the "5 Cs of Crisis Leadership." I'll help you build a crisis-ready foundation, offer concepts on operating efficiently when in crisis and help you lead change. I'll challenge you to consider optimism and opportunity in the toughest of times and help you take the offense!
The boom is coming - it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Will you and your team be ready?
Grateful.
Rob Campbell
Rob Campbell