It's Not Always Right to be Right And other hard-won leadership lessons

by Thomson, Hamish

• ISBN13: 9780730389071
• ISBN10: 0730389073
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-03-08
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Hamish Thomson is a CEO, board and startup adviser, consultant, speaker and investor.

A New Zealander by birth, in his 30-year career, he has been a successful Regional President and Global Brand head for Mars Incorporated (UK, Australia and Chicago), a senior marketing and sales lead for Reebok International (England and the Netherlands) and a fresh-faced account executive in the London advertising scene.

He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three children.

www.hamishrthomson.com

Table of Contents

Purpose: What’s in it for you? vii

Introduction: Good, but not Great ix

1 Law, Logic and Relationships 1

2 Drains and Radiators 17

3 The Man Who Used to Smile 33

4 Results Are Nice but Awards Matter 47

5 It’s Not Always Right to be Right 59

6 Noticed, Remembered, Understood 73

7 Ever Heard of Harry Redknapp? 89

8 Bad Bosses Are Great Bosses 107

9 The 3 A’s (and one critical E) 121

10 It Only Hurts When You Write the Cheque 143

11 Get a Life 147

12 What Would Margaret Thatcher say? 165

13 Bring On the Grilling 177

14 The Hardest Part of a Decision 195

15 Culture Doesn’t Matter 207

16 Constant Dissatisfaction 223

17 The Authentic You 241

18 Who is Writing Your Agenda? 253

Close: If Not You, Who? 267

Index 271