The BOOM! BOOM! Book
by Michael Ryan
http://www.theboomboombook.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheBoomBoomBook
Overview from official website:
Tip No. 1: Your Career is Like Building a House
Take the time to build a solid foundation and learn your craft. As a marathon runner knows, the race isn’t won after the first mile. The same goes for your career.
Tip No. 2: Don’t Put All Your Eggs in Your Career
Develop a life outside of work. Also, since you’re likely going to work for the longest part of your life, find a job that you enjoy. Otherwise it could be one long, lousy life.
Tip No. 3: Be Willing to Change
What do these statements have in common?
Tip No. 4: Know Your Customer
Remember what the late Stephen Covey wrote as Habit 5 of his 7 Habits of Highly
Successful People: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Tip No. 5: You’re Not Alone
We often miss out on understanding issues or processes by not asking questions, so be willing to ask for explanations. You’re likely not the only person who doesn’t get it.
Tip No. 6: When in Doubt, The Word to Use
Interesting – a great word to use when you’re not sure how you feel about a certain situation. Using it can buy you time as you formulate your thoughts.
Tip No. 7: Don’t Beat Yourself Up
There are plenty of people in your life willing to do that for you. They’re quite eager to point out your faults and shortcomings. Don’t help them do it.
Tip No. 8: It Can’t Happen to Me. Wanna Bet?
Bad things can happen to good people. The mark of resiliency in a person is not whether he or she gets knocked down; it’s how a person gets back up.
– The Person You Have to Keep Happy in Your Life is YOU!
– Don’t Love the Company, the Company Can’t Love You Back
They are just a few of the tips in the hot new book called The BOOM! BOOM! Book: Practical Tips to Make Sure Your Career Doesn’t Go BUST!
Award-winning journalist and business executive Michael Ryan gives it to you straight. There’s no sugar-coating here. Just solid advice that could either help make or break your career. He has seen a lot the good and the bad and is eager to share his experiences to help others. He details the road to success, how to take care of yourself, how to take control and what to avoid if you become a manager.
The book’s theme is based on the movie that debuted in 2000 called Pay IT Forward, where the gifts we receive are meant to be shared. The book’s goal is to start a conversation. After reading, make sure you submit your own BOOM! BOOM! Tips at theboomboombook.com so you can pay it forward.
In the book, Ryan shares lessons from his own career and from others. For example, it was former Xerox human resources vice president Don Zrebiec who said don’t love the company, the company can’t love you back.
This was an attempt to wake employees to the new reality, to the dramatically changed environments they were now part of, Zrebiec said. It was attempting to emphasize that their relationship with their company was an economic one and could and probably would be terminated any time those economics changed.
How prophetic Zrebiec was with the loss of millions of jobs when the economy tanked and businesses started shedding their workforces.
Ryan emphasizes that people need to find their passion in life and be willing to take risks. He tells about a former co-worker, Amir Raza, who quit a high-paying sales position to take a job paying a quarter of what he was making to pursue his dream of getting into television. Amir reveals the lessons he learned going through this life-changing experience.
The BOOM! BOOM! Book‘s practical advice can be applied by anyone in his or her work career. Ryan asks just one thing: remember to Pay It Forward.
Publish Info
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Ryan Media Consultants; 1st edition (March 27, 2013)
ISBN-10: 098894880X
ISBN-13: 978-0988948808
Price:
Amazon: $8.99 paperback
$3.99 kindle edition
Endorsement:
A must read for college graduates and those new to the business world. This book is filled with practical and real-world advice rarely taught in school. The lessons shared such as Mike’s Tips for Success could make a big difference in your ability to succeed in life and the workplace. — Jim Nantz, lead announcer at CBS Sports
Read this book if you are starting your career, in the middle of it or thinking about retiring. Mike Ryan has been brutally honest in what he learned from his own missteps and successes. And, he is paying it forward to help the rest of us. — Sue Clark-Johnson, former president, Gannett newspaper division
“A straightforward and practical guide to the work place. Mike Ryan taps into his years of experience to develop a set of very helpful and applicable tips.” — Christopher Callahan, Dean and University Vice Provost, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Content
THE FORMAT
I. Introduction:
“Pay It Forward”
II. Starting Out:
Tip No.1: The person you have to keep happy in your life is YOU!
Tip No.2: Your career is like building a house
Tip No.3: Work is like school: You’re only graded on performance
Tip No.4: The difference between bitching and a fundamental difference
Tip No.5: Don’t put all your eggs in your career
Tip No.6: Failure isn’t a four-letter word
Tip No.7: What YOU can learn from my future
III. The Road to Success:
Tip No.8: Remember: bosses are human, too
Tip No.9: Give your colleagues positive feedback
Tip No.10: Know your customer
Tip No.11: Know how to close
Tip No.12: Be willing to change
Tip No.13: Don’t get too high, too low
Tip No.14: Hang in there
Tip No.15: Don’t beat yourself up
Tip No.16: When in Doubt, the word to use
Tip No.17: Trust your gut
Tip No.18: It’s the “little things” that count
IV. Taking Care of Yourself
Tip No.19: YOU control your happiness
Tip No.20: You’re not alone
Tip No.21: Only one person knows the truth – YOU
Tip No.22: Take time to appreciate the good times
Tip No.23: An awesome book
V. So You Want to Be A Manager
Tip No.24: Think before YOU leap
Tip No.25: Seven most important words
Tip No.26: Your words carry weight
Tip No.27: Hiring the right people is the key
Tip No.28: Fatal flaws as a manager:
– Here’s how we did it.
– – I need to check with my boss.
VI. Taking Control
Tip No.29: Your boss isn’t a mind-read and neither are YOU
Tip No.30: Don’t love the company, the company can’t love you back
Tip No.31: It can’t happen to me. Wanna bet?
Tip No.31: Follow your dream?
Tip No.31: A trapeze artist
Tip No.31: “Which one are you?”
VI. Finally:
Keep the conversation going
About the Author
Michael Ryan is an award-winning journalist with 35 years of media experience. Currently he is the president and CEO of Ryan Media Consultants, a full-service strategic media company that provides communications and marketing services, ryanmediaconsultants.com
Ryan earned his B.A. degree in journalism/mass communications from St. Bonaventure University and his MBA with a focus on marketing from Rochester Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Margaret, established an endowed scholarship at St. Bonaventure for talented mass communications students who need financial assistance.
The Scottsdale Chamber selected him as a Rising Star for his contributions to the community and the chamber. The Scottsdale Republic received the Sterling Award in the Big Business category for its innovation and community leadership. The East Valley Partnership recognized him and the Republic with its Kerry Dunne Sustaining Leadership Award for its long-time contributions to the East Valley.