Piasecki New Way to Wealth

The Power of Doing More With Less
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-6678-1913-6
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

What is Wealth? What is Enough? The path to success and the full glory of wealth is doing more with less! In this book, Piasecki urgently calls for a new era of restraint, public mindedness, and social purpose in capitalism. This homage to historical financial leaders allows an understanding between self-determination and self-actualization in a time of capital constraints. This book helps you understand which attributes lead to the accumulation of wealth and using that wealth responsibly. Piasecki breaks open the differences between self-determination and self-actualization in a time of capital constraints.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piasecki, Bruce

Leseproben

INTRODUCTION

BY MICAH SHIPPEE, PH.D.,

CEO, READY LEARNER ONE

A NEW WAY TO WEALTH is Bruce Piasecki’s nineteenth book.

This short but smart new book is based on his 40 years as the owner and CEO of a management consulting firm that knows firsthand the power of doing more with less. Piasecki’s firm, AHC Group (www.ahcgroup.com), has helped Toyota enter the global market with their hybrid powertrain. They helped Walmart enter Africa efficiently, with strategic partners across five years. In recent years, they worked on competitive frugality with such globe-spanning giants as bp on its energy transformation, and Merck and Walgreens on their needs to flourish in a time of Covid-19.

Piasecki’s career is about the art of competitive frugality. He grew up a factory kid on Long Island, made his way to Cornell as a basketball star, and up the corporate stairwells of the firms noted in his client history and an ongoing series of biannual membership workshops known as the Corporate Affiliates Workshops.

What you are about to experience is the ultimate summary of his career: a down-to-earth, readable, and optimistic narrative in nine chapters and a prelude that sing.

THE NATURE OF MODERN WORK

To study Piasecki’s work is to study the changing nature of work itself, and to reflect on how the best firms compete and thrive. Piasecki builds himself on the shoulders of other giants like Jim Collins, and Harvard’s business gurus, as well as on the shoulders of the six leaders he has written biographies about. But what matters is his insight into what will help us in life, careers, families, and friends.

The nature of modern work is changing because the world is changing. Insights into the future of work largely explore our processes and workflows as they are related to modern technologies that are evolving and increasingly disruptive. In effect, we might be pressured to think of the future of work as doing more with more. However, our globalized society needs us to take more care and understand disruption and innovation in this time of carbon and capital constraints.

We are, after all, global citizens, humankind, children of one earth. Piasecki’s new book is a just-in-time perspective challenging our status quo. He offers an intelligent guide for a successful future, while acknowledging what makes this a swift and severe new world.

HOW I WORK WITH Dr. PIASECKI

I met Dr. Bruce Piasecki in a phone call through our mutual colleague, Bobby Carlton, the Executive Director of Immersive Experiences at Ready Learner One. His love of historical precedent and well-read nature are clear in his writings and conversation. We met over the next few months, via video-chat, to discuss Piasecki’s work and aspiring legacy. As we entered a formal partnership, my firm began creating engaging course experiences leveraging the vast knowledgebase of Bruce’s work.

As the CEO of a training and learning company, Ready Learner One, our collaborations focused on designing and developing courses around the themes of his books. As a result, the Doing More with Less course delivers on its efforts to empower change agents to up-skill and find success. My field of study, instructional design, broadens out to not only include adult learning theory, but also organizational behavior and planned change. Like Bruce, I have worked in spaces and places to help people manage change.

In this book we will find guidance on just how to step back and capture, with grace and force, our competitive nature. Failure awaits those that cannot harness the skill of knowing how to “step back,” and discover why doing more with less is success. Thus emerges a critical lens by which we must approach a world ready for change.

Fundamental to understanding the change process is understanding communication channels—that is, the what, when, why, and how of people communicating. This book explores the power of relationships and meaningful work in vivid detail and through lasting concepts.

We have learned over decades of research and analysis how the organizations/communities in which we communicate can accelerate or impede progress. While innovations create new and faster means of transmitting messages, the sender and receiver remain the interpreter of the motivation and meaning of the message. The relationship between the two is paramount in the effectiveness of the communication, and from this we have come to understand that positive relationships are the key to success. With this in mind, Piasecki’s teams have worked diligently to accelerate progress with global organizations like Merck, bp, Walgreens, and others noted at www.ahcgroup.com. These experiences are captured in this book, an exploration into the two-way dialogue between social needs and business results. We can see this dance of dialogue, and its social value, throughout Piasecki’s book. In fact, Gene Miller read some of his work as a “sustained conversation” of force and wit.

Piasecki’s new book guides us in building our competitive nature as global citizens. Our communication has become more digital and less tangible, exposing a need for strong bonds of relationship. In a changing world, one truth remains: the power of relationships. Piasecki’s practice is based on teams, and key relationships feed all of his books. In this power rests the ability to live a fulfilling life, to promote social good, and to achieve organizational growth. As one who practices what he preaches, Piasecki finds delight in collaborating with award-winning designer, innovator, and educator Bruce Mau (Massive Change Network). This collaboration is a testament to the power of leveraging relationships to amplify efforts and make the world a better place through thoughtful design and practical change. Piasecki brought Gordon Lambert, Bruce Mau, and Bill Novelli into his team serving bp, a 100-billion-dollar giant of immense complexity and need.

A master of networking, Piasecki has seen his efforts bonded with the legendary work of William Novelli (Good Business: The Talk, Fight and Win Way to Change the World). Novelli and Piasecki found themselves on the Board of Directors of the Medical Consortium on Climate and Public Health, sitting with a set of renowned doctors. In these connections and many more, we see the life experiences that led to this book.

FITTING PIASECKI INTO CULTURAL HISTORY

Dr. Piasecki’s work is built on the historical shoulders of Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln, amplified by titans of industry like Gene Miller (Gaining Ground), Chris Coulter (CEO of GlobeScan), and Patricia Aburdene (New York Times best-seller and co-author of the Megatrends series)—each of whom have written powerful introductions to Bruce Piasecki’s prior books. These prior dozen plus books have solidified his work in the critical fields of corporate governance, energy, product, and environmental strategy.

In this new book, you will learn to:

•Explore your role as a leader in our changing society. Piasecki’s approach helps you refine your skills at being frugal, inventive, and diplomatic.

•Navigate times when intervention is required to make massive changes in your life or firms. This helps you develop the competitive skills to be rapidly on-boarded in complex teams.

•Leverage your leadership skills to use social capital to create a culture of frugality during tough economic times.

As I reread this book, Piasecki helped me realize that the future importance of competition and frugality will mount with time; billions of people in this world will demand it.

WHAT DOES PIASECKI MEAN BY “COMPETITIVE FRUGALITY”?

There is a deep paradox and insight behind Piasecki’s chapters. The word “frugality” speaks of self-restraint and self-control, two words not commonly found in business. Competitive Frugality is, after all, self-control employed to relinquish self-centeredness in order to stop wasting time, energy, and resources. This is the lasting gift in Piasecki’s book.

In A New Way to Wealth we see how we must reframe our thinking to understand that opportunity abounds from the realignment of money, people, and rules.

Clearly, mega-companies have mega-responsibilities, yet they do not all embrace this fact, leading to their catastrophic downfall. Therein lies a competitive advantage—an intelligent form of competition—to see the needs of a heavily populated planet 5, 10, and 20 years down the road.

I consider myself well read in fields related to earning my doctorate, and to launching my firm, and I have found this book reveals new grounds for a hopeful future, as it cements classical competitive habits into our behaviors.

Today’s smaller world requires frugality from governments, corporations, privately held firms, and individual homes. Piasecki advises us:

•The age of the consumer is giving...