Are You Ineffective?

About the Book

     Despite the obvious gains in efficiency gained through the proliferation of technology and mobile access most people still long for validation.  Missing are the essential elements of quality, consistency, and excellence. Instant access may not equate to instant success. Do you feel like your obvious intellect, business acumen, and capability should be propelling you faster with more enjoyment in all your endeavors?  You have the potential to accelerate your career and relationships if you can unlock the secrets to more effective interactions. Management expert Jay Young has chronicled the insights gained over 20 years of management leadership to identify the behaviors and blind spots that derail the personal effectiveness of talented people. In Are You Ineffective, Young uses the advisory knowledge that he has gained working with Fortune 500 companies, senior executives, start-ups, and non-profits to identify the patterns of personal actions that may be undermining your effectiveness and your ability to achieve better results. The evaluation tools help you with identification, justification, and correction of your ineffective actions.  Are You Ineffective empowers you to improve your personal brand and effectiveness at every level.

About the Author

Jay Young is an internationally recognized leader of operations, organizational development, and execution management. He has served in the senior executive management of a number of organizations as a management consultant, corporate attorney, not-for-profit executive, and entrepreneur. He has been recruited by organizations of various sizes and at various stages to clarify the go-to-market strategy, improve internal processing, and increase operating profitability. Early in his career, Mr. Young was tasked with opening noncompetitive markets, completing difficult commercial business negotiations, setting up operations, and delivering on strategic business plans in telecommunications, software, and wireless product development. His background and experience includes both domestic and international projects, workouts, and mediation.

Mr. Young has been the leader of transformation projects and has helped start-ups grow rapidly through venture capital infusions and has helped mature organizations reengineer operations for current market opportunities and government agencies effectively reposition their organizations for execution success. During his career Mr. Young has helped organizations double their growth rates, has authored a number of management- and finance-related articles, and has made presentations to industry leadership groups. For this work, Mr. Young has won numerous industry awards, recognition, and a reputation for dynamic organization growth and acceleration.

Representative organizations worked with include Fortune 500 and Global 200 Companies: Exxon-Mobil, IBM, Amtrak, T-Mobile, Fox Sports, the Washington Post, Mellon Bank, PNC Bank, Terra Lycos Ventures, MCI, and others.

Mr. Young holds an AB in economics from Princeton University; a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law; and an MS in International Management from the University of Maryland University College with a concentration in international finance and marketing.