About the Book
Teaching companion to award-winning COMPASS: Creating Exceptional Organizations. This book and accompanying CD include 53 specially packaged training materials and PowerPoint(TM) slides that demonstrate how to make your "Exceptional Organization or Company" viable, sustainable and valued. It stresses the simultaneous pursuit of both "self-interest" and "concern for others." COMPASS: Creating Exceptional Organizations is an award-winning how-to book for business leaders providing the principles, processes, and tools to build Exceptional Organizations. This companion book, COMPASS TOOL KIT, contains reproducible pages that lay flat to easily copy those lessons you select to handout to your attendees. The accompanying CD contains 37 printable handouts in PDF format, along with 16 PowerPoint(TM) Presentation Slides--a total of 53 handy training materials that can be used for class presentations and sent to participants before and after training sessions with your executives, managers and employees.
About the Author :
William F. Brandt Jr. is a co-founder and former CEO of American Woodmark Corporation, a $700 million public company; and has written for numerous publications. He consults and is a university educator in the areas of CEO coaching, leadership development, strategic planning and cultural change. Brandt also has served on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards including a university, health-care system, a hospital, and an international humanitarian aid organization assisting 37 countries. Brandt's company, American Woodmark was formed in 1980 to acquire Boise Cascade Corporation's kitchen cabinet business. American Woodmark is the third largest cabinet manufacturer nationally, serving The Home Depot, Lowe's and major builders. Sales have grown from $35 million to over $700 million. The company went public in 1986. William Brandt has degrees from Dartmouth College and an MBA from its Amos Tuck School of Business. He is Executive-in-Residence at the Harry F. Byrd School of Business Administration, Shenandoah University, where he is also a member of their Adjunct Faculty. He lives with his wife in Winchester, Virginia.
Review :
For COMPASS: "Compass is a great guide for leaders in their quest to create an exceptional organization. While the book provides theoretical grounding, the practical application of the tools makes it relevant to organizational leaders. Concepts of this book have been part of my organization's annual leadership program and the feedback from training participants has been consistently positive. I highly recommend reading and most importantly applying its concepts to your daily work." (Malal W., Amazon Reviewer--5 Stars)For COMPASS: "Compass: Creating Exceptional Organizations stands tall among the others. Written by William F. Brandt, a man with an exceptional skill in strategic planning... he shares his expertise for creating a successful company. Compass is well written, easy to understand, with practical theory, common sense, and it has the tools needed to grow your company into the best it can be." (Reader's Favorite Reviews--5-Stars)For COMPASS: "A comprehensive book with a new paradigm for organizations... a viable tool for any leader. It is loaded with ideas, concepts, tools and valuable information and would be a catalyst for organizational change and improvement."(Portland Book Review--5 Stars)For COMPASS: "Exceptional Book. Highly Recommended. Practical and visionary, this highly accessible guide shows step-by-step how an executive leader driven by integrity and sound values can make a company highly successful. It is written by William Brandt, someone who has done just that..." (Riane Eisler, President, Center for Partnership Studies, Amazon Reviewer (5 Stars)
For COMPASS: "William Brandt is one of the best business leaders in America, with one of the best strategic minds. His book shares his wisdom, experience, logic, unique insights and practical methods for growing an organization that learns, builds, and advances over time. He pulls back the curtain to true strategic thought, and shows how the organizational parts fit together in a reinforcing pattern of synergy to foster true professional development. A must read for managers from every part of the organization, especially the senior most folks." (Robert Fritz, author The Path of Least Resistance for Managers); "If you are looking for solid, proven strategies to build an exceptional organization, this book is it! Author Brandt has written a how-to book that is well-grounded in experience and data. Recommended for both for-profit and non-profit sectors, CEOs and board members alike." (Tracy Fitzsimmons, President, Shenandoah University); "Brandt has developed a powerful guide for any leader preparing for the challenging, endlessly rewarding journey to develop an exceptional organization and the culture required for sustainability." (Vance Tang, retired CEO, and Board Member, Center for Creative Leadership); "An eminently practical guide for senior executives striving to create exceptional organizations. Brandt's personal journey as a CEO gives this work the credibility to challenge conventional wisdom. As a senior business leader, he has real insight into the psychology of motivating and empowering people to achieve great things--both for themselves and their organizations." (Peter Mooney, Partner, DeLoitte Touche Tomatsu); "Bill Brandt is inspired and inspiring, as he shares a way of doing work, defined by impressive results, in the U.S. and throughout the world. Over 300 leaders in 30 countries have benefitted from his teaching." (John P. Howe, III M.D. President, Project HOPE)
