Flip the Script: How to Turn the Tables and Win in Business and Life

by Bill Wackermann

From CondÉ Nast’s publishing director—in charge of Glamour, W, Details, and Bon Apetit, comes Flip the Script—a hip and refreshing lifestyle guide that shows readers how to turn negative situations around and create new opportunities for growth. Few executives in media today are as well respected for their ability to turn a business around as Bill Wackermann. He has become known for his powerful combination of business ingenuity and innovative branding, creating business strategies and branding campaigns that were critically acclaimed by the New York Times and launched initiatives that transcend the publishing industry, impacting the worlds of entertainment, fashion, and art.Flip the Script is a highly intuitive and engrossing guide for everyone from entry level to corner office. Wackermann shares his results-oriented approach to life and business that have made him a young superstar, making it clear to younger readers, in particular, that they too can seize the director’s chair to take control of the story of their lives.Through helpful tips and engaging stories, he empowers readers to embrace self-knowledge and be confident in their talents. In addition, he offers strategies that ensure readers can write happy endings to their own stories. Packed with advice like how to watch for potential openings that might be right in front of you or how to embrace a mantra of personal responsibility, the book draws on eye-opening stories from his life and the life of friends and colleagues to teach how to build a clear program that anyone can use to find success. This refreshingly honest guide from a veritable life-coach guru is destined to become one of the hottest business books on the shelf.

Hardcover

First published May 8, 2012

Reviews

[Romeo Verga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shows process to persist in achieving your goals. It is realistic showing obstacles you may come across and how you can deal with them. Great read!

[Lakeisha Lakay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely a book that encourages reflective thinking--deciding on who you want to be and the process of becoming that person. Yes, there will be a multitude of factors that will attempt to impede your efforts, but keep pressing (and write everything down--your thoughts, experiences, emotions, etc.). My only reservation with this read is that it does not speak enough to the demographics that can stunt a person's flip.