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The BOOM! BOOM! Book VRP

Brett

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

http://www.amazon.com/BOOM-Book-Michael-Ryan/dp/098894880X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381348208&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Boom+Boom+Book

$3.99 kindle edition

http://www.amazon.com/BOOM-Book-Practical-career-ebook/dp/B00FDH3K9I/ref=la_B00FDR0NJS_1_1_title_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381348451&sr=1-1

 

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.

Rutgers Tries to Calm Furor as More Officials Quit

Brett

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — As Rutgers officials tried Friday to calm the public furor over their handling of abusive behavior by the Scarlet Knights’ men’s basketball coach, the university president and athletic director presented conflicting depictions of who was responsible for the decision to keep the coach on staff after administrators first learned of his behavior.

They also revealed that the circle of people who viewed video of abusive treatment of players by the coach, Mike Rice, as early as December was wider than previously understood, and that it included members of the university’s board of governors. That group was informed of the decision to suspend Mr. Rice for three games and send him to anger-management counseling, but not to fire him, according to Ralph Izzo, chairman of the Rutgers board.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/sports/ncaabasketball/athletic-director-tim-pernetti-is-out-in-rutgers-abuse-scandal.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

 

Rutgers, like Penn State, protected coaches instead of kids

Brett

Mike Rice was not fired as the basketball coach at Rutgers on Wednesday because he abused his players.

He was fired because you and I and the governor of New Jersey and everybody across the country found out about his abusive behavior.

This scandal is a miniaturized version of Penn State, which knew all along about the heinous allegations of child sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky, but only distanced itself from Sandusky and fired head coach Joe Paterno after the transgressions became public.

 

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-mike-bianchi-rutgers-fires-mike-rice-0403-20130403,0,883924.column

A big fat lie or the naked truth?

Brett

When David Brock, author of “Blinded by the Right,” stepped into the Crossfire, bullets zinged between him and host Tucker Carlson over comments in Brock’s book, including those about the bow-tied conservative Carlson himself.

CARLSON: I read your book, every page. I could give you my take on it. But let me quote Tim Noah from “Slate” magazine. Tim is hardly a member of the right-wing conspiracy. He say, I’m quoting now, “This book is terrible, whiny, histrionic, and so factually unreliable that I gave practically gave myself a migraine trying to figure out which parts of Brock’s lurid story were true and which parts were false.”

 

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-04-26/politics/cf.crossfire_1_tucker-carlson-brock-naked-truth?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

The Competition Drug

Brett

THIS is America’s college town par excellence. Kids from all over the world flock to Boston to learn. I have a son who is a freshman here. Last autumn, as he entered school, I listened to warnings about the dangers of binge drinking. I think they missed the point.

The real epidemic involves so-called smart drugs, particularly Adderall, an amphetamine prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.) but so freely available as to be the pill to take whenever academic pressure requires pulling an all-nighter with zero procrastination to get a paper done.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/opinion/global/roger-cohen-adderall-the-academic-competition-drug.html?emc=eta1

CNN Reports On The ‘Promising Future’ of the Steubenville Rapists, Who Are ‘Very Good Students’

Brett

One way to report on the outcome of a rape trial is to discuss the legal ramifications of the decision or the effect the proceedings may have on the life of the victim. Another angle reporters can take is to publicly worry about the “promising future” of the convicted rapists, now less promising as a direct result of their choice to rape someone.

 

http://gawker.com/5991003/cnn-reports-on-the-promising-future-of-the-steubenville-rapists-who-are-very-good-students

Steven Simpson, Gay British Teen, Dies After Being Set On Fire At Birthday Party

Brett

A young British man has been convicted of manslaughter after killing a gay teen by setting him on fire.

The BBC reports that 20-year-old Jordan Sheard has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for the death of Steven Simpson after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges. Simpson, 18, died one day after sustaining “significant burns” in June 2012, according to the report.

Simpson had Asperger’s syndrome, a speech impairment and epilepsy, the Yorkshire Post noted. The teen had reportedly been dared to strip down to his underpants before being doused in tanning oil, after which Sheard set him aflame at the party. Other reports said that anti-gay messages, including “gay boy” and “I love d*ck,” had been found scrawled across Simpson’s body.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/23/steven-simpson-gay-teen-burned-birthday-_n_2939092.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

C-SPAN’s series on first ladies begins, but some legacies are still forming

Brett

Dolley made her mark as the quintessential hostess. Eleanor broke new ground by tackling liberal causes. Lady Bird, we learned, was a quiet but effective counselor to her husband.

And what of Michelle — what will be her legacy?

Unlike the dozens of first ladies whose names and stories have been forgotten through the ages (ever had a dinner conversation about Anna Harrison or Jane Pierce?) the nation’s first African American first lady will surely be remembered in history books for a racial barrier broken. But what else will future generations find remarkable?

The year-long C-SPAN series “First Ladies: Influence and Image,” which launches Monday night, provides an opportunity to ponder the question.

Do Startups Take an Emotional Toll?

Brett

While it can be tempting to focus on flashy business successes, there’s another side to entrepreneurship not often discussed: the emotional toll it can take.

Starting a company can be a lot like battling an ocean storm from inside a dingy. One minute you’re experiencing smooth waters (you just signed on a big client), the next you’re in the middle of a typhoon (your funding source went dry and you may be forced to close up shop).

After last week’s death of Internet visionary Aaron Swartz, I touched base with entrepreneurs Jake Nickell of Threadless, Elaine Wherry ofMeebo and Evan Doll of Flipboard to get their views on the pressures of being a young, successful startup owner.

 

http://www.openforum.com/articles/how-to-handle-stress-of-start-ups/