The Road to Champagne

Alejandro Colindres Frañó

Description

Don’t get stuck!

Too many smart and well-educated young professionals struggle growing and finding success simply because they lack powerful insights on how to address the main root causes of slow growth. The Road to Champagne empowers professionals everywhere—including you—to accelerate career growth by clearly presenting how to remove such root causes. The logical framework consists of 13 principles; each one illustrated by real events and supported by practical actions to help you embed them in your life.

This pragmatic career guide is perfect for any professional with room to grow; hence, it will help:

• Those starting their career including students, recent grads, and those who are several years into their career
• More seasoned professionals with untapped growth potential

"The Road to Champagne is the ultimate tool guide to understanding how you can achieve your next steps, with actionable and powerful advice to navigate you through the process!” according to award-winning Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s leading executive educators, coaches, and New York Times #1 bestselling author.

If you enjoyed the The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People or The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, you will love The Road to Champagne.

Cheers to your many upcoming career achievements, you are about to turbocharge your drive to success!

Sujets

• Gestion de carrière
• Champagne
• Leadership
• Business
• Economics
• Career
• Los ambiciosos
• Gestion et management

Informations

• Publié par: Business Expert Press
• Date de parution: 17 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781637422373
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Road to Champagne
The Road to Champagne
13 Principles to Drive Career Success
Alejandro Colindres Frañó
The Road to Champagne: 13 Principles to Drive Career Success
Copyright © Business Expert Press, LLC, 2022.
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Interior design by Exeter Premedia Services Private Ltd., Chennai, India
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First published in 2022 by
Business Expert Press, LLC
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ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-236-6 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-237-3 (e-book)
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To my mom, Isabel, and dad, Marco Antonio, for teaching me many valuable lessons that made my journey possible, and to my wife, Erika, for being an integral part of that journey.
Description
The goal of The Road to Champagne: 13 Principles to Drive Career Success is to empower millions of professionals throughout the world to accelerate career growth! Too many smart and well-educated young professionals struggle simply because they lack powerful insights on how to address the main root causes of slow growth. This book presents actionable principles to remove those root causes.
The principles come alive into a well-structured framework illustrated with real stories from the trajectory of successful colleagues and the author’s experiences. This pragmatic career guide for young professionals is a product of rigorous problem-solving but is written in a style that is easy to follow.
This book is perfect for any professional with room to grow; hence, it will help those starting their career (including students, recent grads, and those who are a few years into their career), as well as more seasoned professionals with untapped growth potential.
As you know, Champagne represents a celebration of success, achievement, and joy. Success is about arriving at a stage where one’s passion, strengths, and interests intersect … a stage worth celebrating. It also refers to the author’s journey in the food and beverage industry across the continent; after working in multiple sectors, he currently enjoys working at a $20B+ distributor of fine Champagne, wine, and spirits in the United States as Vice President of Strategy and Commercial Effectiveness.
Keywords
career; growth; mindset; leadership; professional; success; principles; self-help; Champagne
Contents
Testimonials
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Shape Your Mindset
Chapter 1 Want More
Chapter 2 Aim Outside Your League
Chapter 3 Always Be WIP
Chapter 4 Say Yes
Chapter 5 Be Adaptable
Part II Build Your Brand
Chapter 6 Know Yourself
Chapter 7 Stick to Your Values
Chapter 8 Build Expertise
Chapter 9 Define Your Brand
Part III Be the Driver
Chapter 10 Increase Power and Influence
Chapter 11 Build Your Village
Chapter 12 Grab the Wheel
Chapter 13 Learn From All Leaders
Self-Assessment
Conclusion
References
Website
Social Media
About the Author
Index
Testimonials
“ Getting from where you are, to where you want to be in your career can feel confusing and overwhelming. Alejandro has written the ultimate tool guide to understanding how you can achieve your next steps, with actionable and powerful advice to navigate you through the process! My advice is to read this book and follow through to reach your highest potential possible! ” —Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There , Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach
“ Is your career growing at the pace you expected? Are you in the quest for a framework to ensure that you have career mobility throughout your professional life? Alejandro offers a practical guide for intentionality—in setting aspirations, knowing yourself, making connections and mobilizing your professional brand. This guide, enhanced by Alejandro’s personal story, offers real-life examples of 13 principles of career success. ”
— Liza Kirkpatrick, Assistant Dean at Kellogg School of Management’s Career Management Center
“Reading this career book should be a rite of passage for every young professional. As a recent college graduate, it empowered me to take on the professional world with a much higher level of preparation and is allowing me to maintain a growth mindset as I advance in my career.” —Sasha Matera-Vatnick, Associate at Cargill
“ This is so good! Thorough. Thought-provoking. Transformative. While meant for early career professionals, Champagne is apropos for any stage— and great fodder if you’re mentoring others. Through honest, timely anecdotes, shrewd data, and hands-on calls to action, this writer equips you with right-now tools. You’ll never look at your career the same way. Buckle up and get ready to own your journey. ” —Cliff Goins III, Principal of Business Development at Amazon
“The Road to Champagne helps you understand—in a unique way—how to build the skills and adopt the behaviors to get you to a different level.” —Guilherme Weege, CEO at Grupo Malwee
“ I like the simplicity and practicality of the ideas and principles that Alejandro shares. Following these will not only benefit your career, but also your personal growth … no matter what stage you are in.” —Chris Callieri, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Tory Burch
“This gem is perfect for me in my career right now and will help me better position myself for growth and success.” — Angelica Alvarez, HR Program Manager at SGWS
“The Road to Champagne’s framework is unique in that it helps young professionals not only to advance in their careers, but to do so in a way that brings their passions together for sustainable and balanced growth.” — Megan Prichard, Vice President of Ridesharing Business Unit at General Motors
“ A practical guide to success as a leader and manager. Alejandro uses his international experience to excellent effect with vivid examples and actionable planning sections. The right attitude, self-knowledge, and proactivity are a powerful cocktail for success anywhere in the world. ” — Dr. Mabel M. Miguel, Professor of Leadership and Management, UNC Chapel Hill
Acknowledgments
I would like to give thanks to many people that have enabled progress in my career by giving me the opportunity to work for them in Honduras, the United States, and Brazil, who have mentored me, and who have helped open doors. They have taught me many lessons that shaped me:
Rebecca K.
Jeff W.
Ignacio F.
Victor G.
Per H.
Luis B.
Ricardo G.
Leo V.
Paulo M.
Tobis C.
Tony P.
Rodrigo M.
Roberto C.
Matt L.
Stephen VO.
Gerardo T.
Marcos G.
Ray L.
Quico Q.
Carlos C.
Terry A.
Patrick VdB.
Oswaldo N.
Gerry R.
Sean M.
Ilde S.
Lawrence K.
I thank my parents, family, coworkers, friends, and wife for making it a rewarding journey, my professors at the American School of Tegucigalpa, Cornell University, and Kellogg-Northwestern, my friends who let me share a little bit about their own stories, my beta reader volunteers for their insights, my niece Karen Turcios for the internal graphics, and Phil Buckley for guiding me through the book publishing process.
Finally, a big thank you to the Business Expert Press team for believing in my message and allowing me to share it.
Introduction
How can I continue growing in my career?
How can I make the next interesting move happen?
These are questions that often come to my mind. These days, I am better prepared to answer them. However, a few years ago, I wondered how my young professional nieces and nephews found those answers and who was guiding them through the career thought process. Thus, the idea for this book was born when I gave them clear, structured advice on how they should manage and navigate their career to become successful. I realized that such advice should reach a broader audience, because everything I told them applies to you too.
Over the past 30 years, I’ve had quite a journey since graduating from high school (gulp!), and my professional and personal experiences from across the continent have shown me a few key things: we all have room for continued growth and advancement—and relevant knowledge can help us accelerate toward the success we strive for.
I want to help make your journey—the journey of growth in your career—more efficient. In this book you’ll find a set of game-changing principles that have been instrumental in my career and life: the 13 principles of career success. I swear by these principles because they pave the way for me to achieve and continue achieving my career goals, and I have witnessed the power of these principles in the lives of many others too. None of these principles are Earth-shattering or new. In fact, they have been there waiting for us to tap into them!
If you’re a young professional wanting to grow in your profession or field, this book will show you how. The younger you absorb and implement the principles, the better off you will be. It’s like saving and investing for retirement: The younger you start, the more comfortable your retirement. But you must eventually start doing it regardless of your age—there is value to be found here if you are more mature, too (directly plus indirectly if you mentor younger professionals).
Whether you’re a college student or recent grad, a business school student or recent MBA, a young professional in a small or large organization, an aspiring entrepreneur or even a seasoned executive with room for growth, this book is for you. It doesn’t matter whether you are in industry, government, an NGO, or a small business owner aspiring to be the best in your city, these principles work.

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