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The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity [Hardcover]

Gary Bradt (Author)
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April 27, 2007

Bradt's message in this excellent and inspiring book is a 'golden ring' itself amidst the rubble often permeating our lives. It not only speaks true but makes you strive for more. --Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Beautifully written and full of wisdom, The Ring in the Rubble is a gem. --Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level

Change always creates hidden opportunities. A leader's job is unearthing them. In The Ring in the Rubble, change authority Gary Bradt reveals the secrets to moving beyond the rubble of disruption, fear, and uncertainty that change often creates, to finding the golden ring of opportunity that always lies beneath.

Each chapter of this breakthrough book delivers a powerful principle for leading change, supported by engaging real-life experiences of the author and other well-known business executives that illustrate how to put principles into action. Bradt asks penetrating questions that help you dig deeper and pinpoint the best ways for applying these principles to your specific change effort.

You will discover how Richard Schulze weathered a devastating event that threatened to destroy everything he'd worked so hard to build-and became the founder of Best Buy in the process. You'll see how a 65-year-old man, nearly broke after having suffered a string of disastrous setbacks, dug through the rubble to emerge as Colonel Harland Sanders, who remains the face of Kentucky Fried Chicken to this day. Change itself doesn't dictate the eventual outcome of your situation; how you think about and handle change is what makes all the difference. You'll never find the ring if you don't start digging!


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From the Back Cover

When unexpected change reduces your best-laid plans to rubble, golden opportunities always lie beneath the surface.

It's up to you to find them.

About the Author

Gary Bradt is one of today's most popular speakers on the leadership circuit, addressing corporate audiences around the world. His clients include IBM, General Motors, American Express, General Electric, eBay, FedEx, and NASA.

His Web site is garybradt.com.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 200 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 27, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071488510
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071488518
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #937,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am a change and leadership expert, author and speaker. I have given over 175 keynotes around the globe for organizations looking to capitalize on the opportunities change always creates.

My diverse client base includes IBM, FedEx, General Motors, American Express, Marriott International, The Weather Channel, The Department of Defense, and NASA.

For many years I was endorsed by Spencer Johnson as the primary speaker worldwide on Johnson's business bestseller Who Moved my Cheese?

Through Bradt Leadership Inc, a consulting firm I co-founded with my wife, Dr. Peggy Bradt, I have designed and delivered dozens of customized leadership programs for senior executives and individually coached hundreds more.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Important Reminders, March 4, 2008
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I was privileged to hear Dr. Bradt speak at an investment conference. The presentation was powerful, and when I later read the book, I could tell that the important insights came not just from academic observation but from convictions gained through personal experience. Rubble happens to all of us, and when it does, Dr. Bradt provides some approaches to use it as a pathway to something better. It sort of reminds me of the biblical phrase, "What was intended for evil, God intended for good." I highly recommend this enjoyable, insightful and very readable book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Some good thoughts and actionable suggestions, September 16, 2007
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What I liked best about this book were the specific actions that it said to take at the end of each chapter. They got me to dig a little deeper in some area. Many of the topics weren't new or radical but I actually like that they made sense and made me think a little deeper about what I had experienced and worked through on my own.
I had actually worked through some of these stages already by chance, help of friends or multiple books. But this pulled it all together. It would be good for someone just hitting a major challenge.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Book on Change, August 13, 2007
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We've all heard the cliche, "It's not what happens to you. It is how you respond to it." That sounds easy until you are the one having to deal with it. Then the platitudes sound hollow unless of course you have read Gary Bradt's excellent book.

I liked this book A LOT because Bradt offers practical advice that works if you are going through change or leading others through it. The premise is deceptively simple - when things around you feel as if they have collapsed into a pile of rubble, there is a positive outcome if you will simply start digging.

I found the metaphor of "digging through change" struck a chord of realism, and the fact that this is an expert who has lived the lessons he teaches is a real plus. Your ability to embrace change on a personal level and lead others to do so on an organizational level determines, in many cases, the results you achieve. If you want to win you have to keep digging, and this book shows you how.

Randy Pennington, author
Results Rule!: Build a Culture That Blows the Competition Away
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