It's Not Always Right to Be Right

It's Not Always Right to Be Right

by Hamish Thomson
Released March 2021
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9780730389071

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Book description

A breakthrough guide to the real lessons of business

Have you ever noticed that individuals of brilliance often fall short of their true potential? Great ideas, concepts and initiatives seldom break through the sea of business mediocrity. As a senior international leader with over 30 years corporate experience, Hamish Thomson has discovered that true transformation and breakthrough comes from personal insight — derived not from intellect or technical mastery, but from experience and observation of real-life occurrences.

It’s Not Always Right to Be Right offers unique business and leadership insights, teachable models, and practical advice on what one needs to do differently to achieve desired results. Writing in a casual, autobiographical style, Hamish shares the key experiences and hard-won lessons that enabled him to drive significant change when all the right ways of doing things didn’t work. Packed with fascinating true-to-life stories and powerful, often counterintuitive lessons, this invaluable guide:

  • Distills a lifetime of business wisdom into a single volume
  • Offers honest business and leadership lessons drawn from a long and successful corporate career
  • Features learning messages, practical steps, and shareable strategic models and frameworks to help you make a tangible difference where it counts
  • Provides strategic models that can be used to frame discussions and drive change in individuals, teams, and entire organizations
It’s Not Always Right to Be Right is a must-read for anyone starting out in the business and corporate world, for anyone in the middle of their career looking to break through to the next level, and for senior leaders seeking to improve performance and drive meaningful change.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Purpose: What’s in it for You?
  5. Introduction: Good, but not Great
  6. Chapter 1: Law, Logic and Relationships
    1. A LESSON I NEVER FORGOT
  7. Chapter 2: Drains and Radiators
    1. NEGATIVITY HURTS
    2. LEADERSHIP ENERGY
  8. Chapter 3: The Man Who Used to Smile
    1. REALITY BITES
    2. WHERE I WENT WRONG
  9. Chapter 4: Results Are Nice but Awards Matter
    1. AWARDS ARE TALENT MAGNETS
    2. AWARDS GIVE RISE TO BREAKTHROUGH AND TO ‘SPECIAL’
    3. AWARDS PROVIDE CLARITY OF FOCUS AND DIRECTION
    4. A BOOZY LUNCH LESSON
    5. WINNING: THE DRUG OF CHOICE
    6. RISK VS AWARDS
    7. HOW TO WIN CANNES GLOBAL ADVERTISER OF THE YEAR
  10. Chapter 5: It's Not Always Right to be Right
    1. GETTING TO WIN–WIN
    2. EXCEPTIONS TO EVERY RULE
  11. Chapter 6: Noticed, Remembered, Understood
    1. THREE STEPS TO EXCEPTIONAL
    2. NOTICED
    3. REMEMBERED
    4. UNDERSTOOD
  12. Chapter 7: Ever Heard of Harry Redknapp?
    1. THE ABILITY TO MANAGE AND NEGOTIATE EMOTION
    2. THE ABILITY TO LEARN THROUGH ADVERSITY
    3. THE ABILITY TO LEARN THROUGH OTHERS
    4. THE ABILITY TO LEARN THROUGH IMMERSION
    5. THE ABILITY TO LEARN THROUGH SELF
    6. BELIEVE IN EXPERIENCE
    7. INTRODUCING HARRY
    8. LISTEN, REFINE AND GROW
  13. Chapter 8: Bad Bosses Are Great Bosses
    1. THE PERIL OF BAD BOSSES
    2. MY BAD BOSSES
  14. Chapter 9: The 3 A’s (and one critical E)
    1. CENTRALISATION STATION
    2. ASSIST, ADD VALUE OR ACCELERATE
  15. Chapter 10: It Only Hurts When You Write the Cheque
  16. Chapter 11: Get a Life
    1. TIME ON THE BALL
    2. THE IMPORTANCE OF MESSAGING
    3. A QUESTION OF CHOICE
  17. Chapter 12: What Would Margaret Thatcher say?
    1. THE VALUE OF BEING LIKED
  18. Chapter 13: Bring On the Grilling
    1. THEORY OF REACTANCE
  19. Chapter 14: The Hardest Part of a Decision
    1. REFLECTORS VS FORWARD‐LOOKERS
    2. DECISION‐MAKING NON‐NEGOTIABLES
  20. Chapter 15: Culture Doesn't Matter
    1. CORPORATE CULTURE
    2. CULTURAL CRISIS
  21. Chapter 16: Constant Dissatisfaction
    1. CHANNELING DISSATISFACTION
    2. A DISSATISFIED PERSON'S APPROACH TO BUSINESS MODELS
    3. DISSATISFACTION'S FALLOUT
  22. Chapter 17: The Authentic You
    1. TWO HAMISHES, TWO RESULTS
    2. MY WAKE‐UP CALL
  23. Chapter 18: Who Is Writing Your Agenda?
    1. LEADING MY AGENDA
  24. Close: If Not You, Who?
  25. Index
  26. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: It's Not Always Right to Be Right
  • Author(s): Hamish Thomson
  • Release date: March 2021
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780730389071