Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO factor for success in business and life

McGarvie, Blythe J.

ISBN 10: 0071460799 / ISBN 13: 9780071460798

Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006

About this Item

First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition pale gray boards, red spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Has a 5 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" tall sticker from Towne Bank, Williamsburg, in honor of an Inaugural Meeting, on the front free end paper. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From a review on jacket back, "From a CEO perspective, Blythe's approach is music to my ears. A very healthy, integrity-laden, competence-based approach to enhancing one's leadership profile in any situation. It is a most solid model for the corporate world to follow.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO factor for success in business and life
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071460799
• ISBN 13: 9780071460798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Management & Leadership & Work
  • Conduct of Life

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Synopsis

A veteran. . Fortune 500. CFO and business innovator shares her breakthrough program to tap the leader within

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�Blythe McGarvie incites readers. to think about the connections between success, ethics, and financial prowess.�
. �Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

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During her extensive experience studying effectiveness in business, leadership expert Blythe McGarvie uncovered a vital lesson: successful leaders are systems thinkers. By managing the two forces that power the essential dynamic of business systems, integration (fitting in) and transformation (standing out), managers and executives will generate astonishing results: solutions are created, teamwork grows, change is embraced, and effectiveness is improved and rewarded.

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Now, in Fit In, Stand Out, McGarvie presents her breakthrough program that. will help you become a more effective leader. She reveals how integration and transformation function as the yin and yang of business, working together and balancing each other to form the two sides of leadership success. By mastering these imperatives through the revolutionary FISO FACTOR, you will become a team player while simultaneously advocating change and fostering long-term growth.

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Fit In, Stand Out provides the keys to mastering the six agents of FISO (financial acumen, integrity, alliances, learning, perspective, and global citizenship), and the attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics (ABCs) you need to wield them.

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About the Author

Blythe J. McGarvie is president and founder of LIF Group and serves on the boards of Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, St. Paul Travelers, Lafarge NA, and Wawa. She is a former CFO and in 1995 was one of only 10 female CFOs in the Fortune 500. She has spoken worldwide to business and academic audiences on leadership, globalization, and business strategy. LIF group offers a global perspective for clients to achieve profitable growth and can be reached at www.LIFgroup.com.