Welcome to our first event of 2020! This month, our Founder, Jacques
Velleman, will be interviewing CEO, leader, influencer, writer,
advisor very talented speaker, Ian Russell about his book: Ian is
passionate about innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship and getting
stuff done in the social impact space. His audiences are broadly,
corporates, academic institutions, entrepreneurial and start-up
companies. Ian’s been the CEO of a company with an employee base of
10,000. He has a great professional reputation and is well known and
recognized in the areas he speaks about. Ian's career has involved
almost every continent and spanned a quarter of a century. Drawing
deeply on his priceless real world experiences as a CEO and senior
leader, Ian ensures that you will never think the same way again.
About the Book: The Other End of the Telescope Are you ready to rise
to the challenge of increasing the metabolic rate and success of your
business? The Other End of the Telescope is a high speed gallop
through the absurdities and challenges of getting things done in large
companies, and the inherent contradictions in leadership and
organisational behaviours that prevent businesses from realising their
potential and achieving greater success. In this collection of thought
provoking essays, Ian Russell draws on more than 25 years’
experience of leading and working in large organisations around the
world to distil the key themes and challenges confronting big business
today. The book tackles key topics such as organisational cholesterol,
the loneliness of leadership, human capital strategy failures,
performance destroying ‘head offices’ and the ‘myths’ of
talent scarcity and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, among
others. Each essay pairs a deep understanding of the real world and
lessons learned the hard way, with powerful and pragmatic insights on
how big business can change the way in which it does things.
Contributions from other notable thought leaders Valter Adão, Richard
Mulholland, Happy Ntshingila and Rapelang Rabana add unique voices and
insights to Ian’s vibrant and straightforward views. Together they
are exactly what is needed to jolt businesses and their leaders into
doing things more successfully and thoughtfully. The lightness of
Ian’s style makes this a highly readable book, but it does not
dilute the impact of his incisive observations and insights.
Passionate, irreverent and challenging, The Other End of the Telescope
will make you think deeply about your business and your career – and
your role in both. You’ll never think the same way again. About The
Business Book Club: The Business Book Club was founded in April 2017
with the purpose to share knowledge in a business context. Knowledge
is the start of change, an inevitable process of business (and life),
and one can obtain it through various means. Books are our favourite
way and what better than to have a conversation with the author.
Sharing knowledge through questions and answers helps us understand
how each of us can affect change in a positive way. The Business Book
Club meets every month, where we invite an author to showcase their
book and share their knowledge. Through conversations with the author,
we grow our leadership capability by understanding how we can change
our business environments. *ENTRANCE: Any new or second-hand book.
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