Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Opportunity Knocking: Lessons from Business Leaders
    Unavailable
    Opportunity Knocking: Lessons from Business Leaders
    Unavailable
    Opportunity Knocking: Lessons from Business Leaders
    Ebook191 pages3 hours

    Opportunity Knocking: Lessons from Business Leaders

    By Lori Ann LaRocco, Dick Armey and Wilbur L. Ross

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Known as the producer with the trillion-dollar Rolodex, Lori Ann LaRocco knows how to get business leaders and entrepreneurs to talk. Many of the world’s most well-known executives are so trusting of LaRocco, senior talent producer at CNBC, that she consistently gets scoops on billion-dollar deals before anyone else. In her newest book, Opportunity Knocking, LaRocco uses her close relationships with these organizational leaders to tell their storiesmany of which have never been previously revealed, but offer brilliant insights into their minds.

    In Opportunity Knocking, readers will learn the full stories and secrets of success from some of the world's smartest, most innovative leaders, such as Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s strategy for creating a culture of promise that revitalized the American auto industry. This book provides real-world examples from leaders like Mulally and turns them into actionable, proven strategies for identifying and acting on opportunities.

    What makes Opportunity Knocking stand apart is the diversity of individuals who offer real-world strategies and advice instead of just one person’s opinion or vision. From the assembly line to the C-suite, Opportunity Knocking will provide both inspiration and a blueprint for achieving success by recognizing the right opportunityand seizing it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAgate B2
    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9781572847316
    Unavailable
    Opportunity Knocking: Lessons from Business Leaders
    Author

    Lori Ann LaRocco

    Lori Ann LaRocco is an award-winning author and American Journalist. She is the author of "Trade War Containers Don't Lie: Navigating the Bluster (Marine Money 2019), "Dynasties of the Sea: The Untold Stories of the Postwar Shipping Pioneers (Marine Money, 2018), "Opportunity Knocking" (Agate Publishing, 2014), "Dynasties of the Sea: The Shipowners and Financiers Who Expanded the Era of Free Trade" (Marine Money, 2012), and."Thriving in the New Economy" (Wiley, 2010). As Senior Editor of Guests and Global Supply Chain Reporter at CNBC, Lori Ann has the ear of some of the world's biggest business minds. Lori Ann has been working at the network since 2000. She was first hired as one of Maria Bartiromo's producers on her first primetime show, "Market Week." Lori Ann has produced and booked interviews with some of the biggest names in business. Her track record has garnered her trust and respect, from Wall Street to Washington. Lori Ann's relationships with top business leaders have earned her first access to business deals in the billions of dollars, the network, to break the news first. Prior to joining CNBC, Lori Ann was an anchor, reporter and assignment editor in various local news markets around the country.

    Read more from Lori Ann La Rocco

    Related to Opportunity Knocking

    Related ebooks

    Leadership For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Do You Realise How Scary You Are?

      Dec 3, 2019

      Most managers know they need to create an environment where people can speak up in order to hear innovative ideas and avoid scandals. Research from a new book ‘Speak Up: Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard’ (Financial Times Publ

      8 min read

    • Article

      Can You Learn To Be A leader?

      Aug 1, 2022

      Can You Learn To Be A leader?
      5 min read

    • Article

      8 Skills To Achieve Success

      Aug 25, 2022

      8 Skills To Achieve Success
      5 min read

    • Article

      Be Your Own Author

      Mar 1, 2024

      Be Your Own Author
      4 min read

    • Article

      Make yourself HEARD

      May 13, 2020

      Make yourself HEARD
      3 min read

    • Article

      Brain Trust

      Jul 11, 2019

      The best career advice I received was to overcommunicate, underpromise, and overdeliver. It’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming people have the same level of skill and knowledge as you on a subject, but often this is not true. If you’ve been wor

      4 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Jan 1, 2023

      When you joined Fortune magazine in 2000, describe the culture you encountered. I was really lucky to get that job straight out of college. I was assigned to work for an experienced editor at large, so I had a built-in mentorship situation, which was

      6 min read

    • Article

      Live Every Day Like A Crisis

      Jan 10, 2023

      Live Every Day Like A Crisis
      2 min read

    • Article

      How To Succeed At Failure

      Jan 13, 2022

      How To Succeed At Failure
      5 min read

    • Article

      It’s Always Up to You

      Dec 31, 2019

      It’s Always Up to You
      5 min read

    • Article

      Q & A

      Sep 1, 2022

      How do you define a ‘person of influence’ in today’s world? Whether we realize it or not, we are influencing people all the time, from the time we are very young. Whenever you do or say something that effects a change in someone else’s thinking or be

      8 min read

    • Article

      Why It Pays To Break The Rules

      Jan 1, 2019

      How do you define 'rebel talent'?Rebels get a bad rap. We mostly think of them as contrarians — colleagues, friends and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions and disagree when everyone else agrees. But rebels also change t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Designing for Gender Equality

      May 1, 2018

      A couple of years ago, as an executive with one of the big banks, you were involved in the Rotman School’s study of Canadian women as a consumer group in financial services. What were the key findings? The first is that the financial industry — despi

      6 min read

    • Article

      4 The Culture

      Oct 20, 2020

      4 The Culture
      5 min read

    Reviews for Opportunity Knocking

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words