Well-known entrepreneur, trainer and business commentator Blaise Brosnan's new business book. This hugely authentic 'factional' memoir of Jack reads with the authenticity of an autobiography. The book begins at a time when children were seen but not heard, when fathers said little and internalised their feelings - and mothers managed everything from scarce resources to the thoughts of their children.
Blaise Brosnan, business mentor and trainer, uses the life story of Jack - his influencers and his influences - to give concrete advice that will benefit anyone working their way from the ground up. He sees into Jack's mind and reflects his thoughts, revealing how he coped with life's problems. Jack pays a price. But does it merit the prize?
In the book we follow Jack as he grows up and the many influences, good and bad, that he experiences. The chapters that occur in the boarding school and on the building sites of London are vividly drawn and unerringly credible. From there, Jack comes back to Dublin and he eventually finds his own feet. He learns life's lessons the hard way but steadily and cleverly he starts to rise in the world. He, in turn, influences others. Guides and critics help and hinder Jack as he tries to negotiate his way to his own version of success. Everyone in Ireland knows Jack. Perhaps he is a colleague, an adviser or a friend. Perhaps he is you!
About the author: Blaise Brosnan is a graduate of University College Dublin; he holds a Masters in Management from Trinity College Dublin and is a Certified Member of the Irish Management Institute (IMI). He has up to 40 years of practical business experience in Ireland, Russia and USA - 21 of them as CEO of a major multi-million euro dynamic business, and 18 years as an independent management consultant and trainer. Through his business consultancy and his Owner Manager Development Programme (OMDP) he has facilitated more than 2,000 business people to stand back from the 'fuss' of their day-to-day activity and decide how best to drive their businesses forward and achieve their objectives.
Blaise Brosnan said that he wrote Jack over a two year period because of the great demand by people he met, giving courses and in business consultations, for role models for their life. He said: "Most people,if they read Jack, may empathise with business mangers and with entrepreneurs about the joys, the thrills and the awful woes and tragedies of business life. We need a new understanding of what it takes to get ahead and survive in business whether you are a sole trader working from home or the chief executive of an SME exporting to the far side of the globe."
ISBN: 9781907593222
