John Barrett

More a prequel than a sequel, this book tells of events prior to BIPOLAR..... ME? and like a mixed up mind, is written in no particular order. Basically it's a complete mess, just like me.

Great leaders are always advancing their leadership ability to the next level. They never stop challenging themselves to reach new heights. They know the secret to success is the capacity to lead themselves and others effectively. In fact, true success is simply an overflow of great leadership. Yet, so many leaders and organizations feel frustratingly stuck. They are striving for success, but aren't moving forward into growth. Their solution? Work harder. But in doing so, they're just spinning their wheels without catching any traction. This book is designed to skyrocket your leadership to the next level. You will get ideas that are going to help you get unstuck as you discover what it takes to be a great leader. It is only when you level up that you can start to become the leader you are capable of being.

For the first time in book form, 'B2B Customer Insight: The Proven Path to Growth,' will reveal how customer insight surveys tailored to B2B relationships generate significant strategic data; data that, when properly applied, enables company management to expand their share of existing markets as well as successfully penetrate new ones. When these surveys are regularly conducted and implemented, they lead to increased long-term profits and sustainable growth. This book will appeal to virtually anyone wanting to learn about the hidden dynamics of B2B transactions, and how to make those dynamics work in a supplier’s favor in their customer relationships and overall business development. In my 20 years of consulting with large manufacturing companies in a variety of industries, I’ve been able to develop a tested and proven customer insight methodology that I will share for the first time in this book. Utilizing real-life case studies with clients who have agreed to participate in this project, I will also discuss how this research process should never stop with the numbers. Instead, it should provide practical and impactful solutions to specific business dilemmas. The advantage of offering actual case studies of companies who successfully made significant changes (of course based on our PMG customer insight surveys) will also differentiate us from other B2B business books that lack hard, fact-based guidance as well as multiple examples of genuine and significant application.

For the first time in book form, 'B2B Customer Insight: The Proven Path to Growth,' will reveal how customer insight surveys tailored to B2B relationships generate significant strategic data; data that, when properly applied, enables company management to expand their share of existing markets as well as successfully penetrate new ones. When these surveys are regularly conducted and implemented, they lead to increased long-term profits and sustainable growth. This book will appeal to virtually anyone wanting to learn about the hidden dynamics of B2B transactions, and how to make those dynamics work in a supplier’s favor in their customer relationships and overall business development. In my 20 years of consulting with large manufacturing companies in a variety of industries, I’ve been able to develop a tested and proven customer insight methodology that I will share for the first time in this book. Utilizing real-life case studies with clients who have agreed to participate in this project, I will also discuss how this research process should never stop with the numbers. Instead, it should provide practical and impactful solutions to specific business dilemmas. The advantage of offering actual case studies of companies who successfully made significant changes (of course based on our PMG customer insight surveys) will also differentiate us from other B2B business books that lack hard, fact-based guidance as well as multiple examples of genuine and significant application.

In 1645 and 1646 the Scottish royal burgh of Elgin was thrust into the front line of the Civil War that wracked the three kingdoms of King Charles' realm during the 1640s. The town was successively occupied by the parliamentary forces of the Marquis of Argyll, the royalist army of the Marquis of Montrose, and detachments of the Marquis of Huntly's royalist Strathbogie regiment, who ravaged the defenceless community; houses were looted and burnt, both the rich and poor terrorised. The indignities heaped upon the Elgin townsfolk are graphically described in a unique roll of honour, now published as The Elgin Depositions. This astonishing document was compiled as a testimony of the community's steadfastness in adversity; of sufferings not shirked but embraced as Elgin's Love-gift. The story of Elgin's Love-gift is told in national records, in contemporary narratives, and in the unregarded heritage of local archives. At the heart of this history, The Elgin Depositions speak in the authentic voices of ordinary Scottish folk to offer an unrivalled insight into just one of the local triumphs and petty tragedies that compose, and indeed epitomise, the struggle for God, King and a Covenanted Commonwealth within a dramatic period of national history.