One Fish Changes Everything: Leadership Lessons Learned The Most Unexpected Way - Softcover

Holmes, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734236949 ISBN 13: 9781734236941

Publisher: Endo Marketin Group + Fig Factor Media, 2019

Synopsis

This book will help you grow as a leader, both personally and professionally. 

One Fish Changes Everything will challenge you and help you grow professionally, personally and spiritually. Most who have read this book say they cannot put it down. This is a must read for everyone looking to grow. Be prepared to be taken on an emotional journey that will end up discovering that there is real truth in the fact that; one fish changes everything.

A delightful fable that is challenging, motivational and spiritual.

One Fish Changes Everything is an emotional journey that will pull hard on your heart strings. You will find yourself lost in the characters and feeling like you are a part of every interaction. If you want to be inspired and benefit from the gift of wisdom from a mentor to his student, you will want to spend time reading this engaging story and learning lessons that can apply to every area of your life.

Let’s face it, life is easier with the help of others.

We all need people who challenge our thinking and enable us to discover more about ourselves. We call them mentors, friends, coaches but, really, they are just people helping people. We all benefit from their mentorship, motivation, inspiration and friendship.

For Joey Alfieri that mentorship comes from an unlikely, elderly gentleman who volunteers to help Joey learn how to improve his fishing. At least that is what Joey thought. Their journey and friendship turns out to be life changing for Joey. While learning how to improve as a fisherman, he learns how to improve as a friend, a neighbor, a co-worker and every aspect of his life. Changes are made all the way from his foundation of thought to how he plans his days. This is a delightful story about friendship, relationship, love, listening, applying and growing.

 

About this title

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Holmes is a dynamic leader who started his businesscareer as an entrepreneur his freshman year at Youngstown StateUniversity. Since then, he has started multiple small businesses.Most recently, he has served in the role of vice president of sales andmarketing with a Fortune 500 company.

Robert is a dynamic speaker who feeds off the energy of hisaudience and can warm up the coldest room. He has engagedcorporate audiences of 2,500 people, as well as small teams of ten. His career has taught him that sometimes the best lessonslearned through your successes, your ability to hit a number, orby addressing a large crowd. Sometimes they come from the mostunexpected places. 

Robert currently lives on a small farm propertyin central Ohio with his wife of 19 years, Jen, and his sons Gavinand Rylan, three dogs, four chickens and a rabbit, who all contributeto his life's lessons. Every now and then he sends his friends anemail, sharing lessons learned from a first-time chicken farmer andhis belief that life's lessons can be found everywhere. You just have tobe willing to recognize them.

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From the Back Cover

ABOUT THE BOOK

ONE FISH CHANGES EVERYTHING
Joey Alfieri, his friends call him "Bags", finds himself in aunique situation. After some bad decisions and unfortunate luck,he is not moving forward in life and, quite frankly, isn't trying. Theonly thing he is passionate about is fishing, Oddly enough, a seriesof events leads him to uncover that an unlikely character can be hisbest chance of landing a giant. He sets on a journey that enableshim to grasp a simple 4-step approach to reaching his goals, learnclear lessons of communicating with confidence, realize patience isa part of every strategic plan, soak up the importance of perspectiveand relationship in he does and recognizes that no matter how wellyou strategize you are never in complete control. Most important herealizes that One Fish Changes Everything!


My hope that you are inspired by this leadership book.Many lessons are learned throughout the book from all of thosesurrounding "Bags" and influencing in different ways. I hope thatyou pick up on the obvious lessons and the not so obvious onesthat lead Bags to a place where he realizes that One Fish ChangesEverything. Of all your choices, we hope you find this one of thebest books to read.

"One Fish Changes Everything is a MUST READ for anyonewants to grow as a leader, plus it is fun to read. Robert takes complexprinciples and ideas and makes them understandable and relatablethrough this great book."

Doug Garasic Author of Wayside Amazon #1 Selling Book +Pastor of Rustcity.Church

"Robert Holmes is a proven leader whose experienceshines through this delightful story that underscores the value ofmentorship, simple life lessons, and the great past time of fishing.A worthy read that reminds us the most valuable lessons are oftenthose learned along the way."

Harrison Rogers, Operations Executive

From the Inside Flap

Special thanks to all of those who supported me by listening as I read through sections of my project with them or taking the time to read my manuscript in raw form. I couldn't have completed this without the confidence provided from your feedback: Tracy Sears, Mark Rigsby, Mike Brubaker, Jennifer Holmes, Dave Jansen, Michele Kelly, Brittany Raschdorf, Ruth Morris, Katie Bischoff, John Castelino, Todd Hoffman, Jackie Camacho-Ruiz, Doug Garasic, Dena Massaro-Williams, Michael Wahl, Greg Preston, and Harrison Rogers. You all are the best!!!

Copyright © 2019 by Robert Holmes

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations em-bodied in critical articles or reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Cover design by Robert Holmes
This cover and book has been designed using resources from Freepik
ISBN: 978-1-7342369-4-1Library of Congress Control Number: 2019920472
First Edition: December 2019

Edition details

• Publisher: Endo Marketin Group + Fig Factor Media
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734236949
• ISBN 13: 9781734236941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230