Ian Domowitz - The Vice Chairmans Doctrine: Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine

Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0

Ian Domowitz

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine: Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0

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ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-230-4 (paperback)

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Description

There are books about product and companies, but no books about a company as a product.

After 19 years in academics and 17 years on Wall Street, Ian Domowitz arrives from orbit around the top of a corporation with a mindset of leadership without authority. The former public company Vice Chairman and CEO offers a no holds-barred treatment of influence and leverage, complete with coaching, mantras, and essential tales of leadership. Change management is a lifestyle. Transformation is a calling card. The Vice Chairmans product is the company itself.

Wrapped inside a series of vignettes, research and stories show how business process and culture converge as competitive advantage. Company priorities of innovation, branding, and culture are refashioned through unorthodox lenses that focus action through design thinking and transformation within a social system. Drawing from his body of knowledge and experience, Domowitz blurs lines between self-reflection, philosophy, and management science as he explores corporate life and decision making.

The Vice Chair learns from architects, storytellers, linguists, psychologists, relationship gurus, mathematicians, religious figures, science fiction characters, detectives, film directors, professors, entrepreneurs, software designers, fearful events, AI, and even real companies. Each teaches transformation in its own way. The greater metamorphosis combines personal development with the management of a company as though it were a product. Culture emerges in the form of actionable values.

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine is a transformative tale of leadership without authority, a perspective suiting a new breed of entrepreneurs and corporate warriors who reject control, live in a world of influencers and aspire to become one. It is a set of principles advocated, taught, and put into effect with respect to the acquisition and exercise of power, a coherent sum of assertions regarding influence and leverage within a company.

leadership; business culture; organizational learning; management skills; design thinking; decision making; entrepreneurship; sociology; artificial intelligence

Contents

What a unique and inspired new direction for non-fiction, business-driven books.

A masterful, thought-provoking, and engaging nonfiction read, author Ian Domowitzs The Vice Chairmans Doctrine is a must-read business book. A brilliant deep-dive into business growth and the balance of leadership and power, the authors unique writing style, hopping back and forth between the voice of The Vice Chairman and the author himself, added humor and wit into the business-led book, creating a tone that could benefit readers of all backgrounds.

The balance of research and development mixed with the authors unique wit and charm is what really sold this narrative.Anthony Alvinas Book Review Blog

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine: A Guide to Rocking the Top in Industry 4.0 comes from a former public company Vice Chairman and CEO who offers a different business take than in most books. His focus on transformative business experiences, the wellsprings of creativity and flexibility that lead to success, and the stories that back these experiences set this business book apart from almost every other discussion on the market.

Domowitz does not use a single company for his corporate examples. Instead, he weaves the perspectives, knowledge, and power of leadership and change into each different story to provide not just business lessons, but emotional connections to events and growth experiences. The addition of dramatic flourishes to capture audience attention may be otherworldly or emotional draws. But, with the best acuity of nonfiction, Domowitz supports them with real-world incidents, examples, and facts to educate and transform business readers.

Its an invitation to embrace a new form of corporate identity and excels in reframing the business perspective through a clear doctrine that defines approaches to this process. Business leaders interested in innovative concepts and creative envisioning of traditional approaches to goal attainment, adaptation, and change will welcome the stories and examples packed in an inspirational survey of many new possibilities and visions of success.Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

The Vice Chairmans Doctrine is not a typical leadership or business manual. Domowitz is an articulate wordsmith who enjoys constructing a good, intellectually sound joke at his, or his industrys, expense, for an entertaining read throughout. Hes able to weave different elements together, forming a comprehensive guidebook that is both immensely readable and informative. Most vitally, Domowitz possesses a charming gift for allegory, irony, and even, at times, outright satire that enhances his subject matter, making his book an entertaining and illuminating read for readers from any professional discipline.Self-Publishing Review

A masterpiece. Ian Domowitz has written a timeless manual for anyone leading and advising leaders on successful business growth and change. If wickedly erudite humor, crystal clear thinking and well-earned wisdom sound like the elements of a book you want to read, then buy The Vice-Chairmans Doctrine immediately. This is a rare, crisp exhortation I will refer to for the rest of my life.Jared Carney, Founder, CEO, Lightdale, LLC and Vice-Chairman, McKinley Capital

A must read. In ever his ever-timely book, Dr. Domowitz shares his opinion freely through his hard-earned, often gut-wrenching, insiders experience. He lays bare, from the top down, the naked, essential, often brutal elements of corporate function. Seldom can one gain an inside view of corporate intrigue and world-class wisdom at the same time. This is a no holds-barred, exceptional read, complete with coaching, mantras, and essential tales of leadership.Richard E. Buckley. MD, CEO, Aurora Scientific, Inc.

Prepare yourself for a unique journey into a forest where few dare to explore. Drawing from his body of knowledge, readings, and experience, Domowitz has blurred the line between self-reflection, philosophy, and management science and made insightful excursions into the trees and branches of corporate life and decision making. His trail guide of navigating the Industry Version 4.0 jungle and potentially finding the fruits of innovation and transformation is very fun and easy to read.