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Summit: Reach Your Peak and Elevate Your Customers' Experience
Tools and training to take you, as a business professional, straight to your peak potential--to benefit you, your family, and your customers Risk management expert and entrepreneur Scott Addis looks at your progression upward--from developing skills to cultivating business relationships to earning customer loyalty--as an ascent to a mountaintop. He takes you through four elevation levels--preparation for the climb, setting up base camp, assaulting the summit, and the final ascent--as he covers identifying your Unique Ability®, emotional intelligence, presenting yourself to others, nurturing creativity and innovation, building relationships, and winning customer trust. Scott-- an Inc. magazine ''Entrepreneur of the Year'' finalist and one of the ''25 Most Innovative Insurance Brokers in America''--believes that as a professional in today's workforce you are eager to reach your personal summit, and he gives you a clear path to get there. In his well-paced guide for novices and masters alike, he judiciously balances anecdotes with prudent advice and calls-to-action. The latter take the form of questions to address, steps to take, strategies to pursue, and attributes to cultivate along your path to the top.
- GenresBusiness
190 pages, Hardcover
First published January 5, 2014
113 people want to read
About the author
F. Scott Addis
1 book1 followerScott Addis serves as the president and CEO of The Addis Group and Addis Intellectual Capital (AIC).
The Addis Group is recognized as one of the premier insurance and risk management consulting firms in the U.S., while AIC is in the business of industry transformation.
Scott has handled the insurance and risk management needs for many prestigious companies and institutions, including Comcast Corporation, Urban Outfitters, Aqua America, the University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University.
Scott was a finalist for Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. Sponsored by Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch, the Philadelphia Business Journaldescribed the award as “the nation’s most prestigious recognition of successful business owners and the standard of excellence for the leaders of some of the region’s hottest entrepreneurial companies.” Nominations were based upon “ingenuity, hard work, and perseverance, which create a successful, growing business venture.”
Scott was recognized as one of the 25 Most Innovative Agents in America by The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research. He also received the Franklin Award for outstanding achievement and contribution in Delaware Valley. Scott was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the region’s most influential business professionals through its Book of Leaders.
A graduate of Princeton University, Scott remains active in community affairs. He served as a United Way key campaigner and on the board of The Haverford School, GVA Smith Mack, Bryn Mawr Rehab, Camp Tecumseh, Main Line Chamber of Commerce, the Starfinder Foundation, Cabrini College, and Lower Merion & Narberth Public Access Television. Scott is the past chairman of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce. He has also been inducted into The Haverford School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Scott resides in Bryn Mawr, PA, with his wife, Bobbie. He has three sons, Andrew, Jeffrey, and Will.
The Addis Group is recognized as one of the premier insurance and risk management consulting firms in the U.S., while AIC is in the business of industry transformation.
Scott has handled the insurance and risk management needs for many prestigious companies and institutions, including Comcast Corporation, Urban Outfitters, Aqua America, the University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University.
Scott was a finalist for Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. Sponsored by Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch, the Philadelphia Business Journaldescribed the award as “the nation’s most prestigious recognition of successful business owners and the standard of excellence for the leaders of some of the region’s hottest entrepreneurial companies.” Nominations were based upon “ingenuity, hard work, and perseverance, which create a successful, growing business venture.”
Scott was recognized as one of the 25 Most Innovative Agents in America by The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research. He also received the Franklin Award for outstanding achievement and contribution in Delaware Valley. Scott was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the region’s most influential business professionals through its Book of Leaders.
A graduate of Princeton University, Scott remains active in community affairs. He served as a United Way key campaigner and on the board of The Haverford School, GVA Smith Mack, Bryn Mawr Rehab, Camp Tecumseh, Main Line Chamber of Commerce, the Starfinder Foundation, Cabrini College, and Lower Merion & Narberth Public Access Television. Scott is the past chairman of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce. He has also been inducted into The Haverford School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Scott resides in Bryn Mawr, PA, with his wife, Bobbie. He has three sons, Andrew, Jeffrey, and Will.
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February 21, 2014
Note: I received my copy of Summit: Reach Your Peak and Elevate Your Customers' Experience in a Goodreads giveaway.
Since I am currently studying Business, I was really looking forward to reading this book in hopes of gaining some useful knowledge that will aid me in the future. Lucky for me, Scott Addis is a great writer, who not only keeps my full attention throughout the book by his well-placed real-life anecdotes and his little motivational quotes before each chapter, but also conveys many useful tips that I had not thought about prior to reading his book.
As a past Psychology major at Princeton University, Addis puts much emphasis on one's attitude as a key to success. Honestly, but tactfully, he stresses that success can only be reached with the mentality, the confidence, and the discipline to do so. I love that he touches on the fear of failure that many people face and how honest he is in revealing his own weaknesses throughout the book.
The inner workings and motivations of the mind are not the only aspect he talks about, however. Addis does an excellent job at balancing the content of his book, as he puts an equal emphasis on social skills, self-presentation, and, maybe most important of all, balance between work and life. It is the well-rounded nature of this book that makes it so incredibly valuable to me - not to mention how effortless of a read it made it be.
I am likely to recommend this book to people I know.
Since I am currently studying Business, I was really looking forward to reading this book in hopes of gaining some useful knowledge that will aid me in the future. Lucky for me, Scott Addis is a great writer, who not only keeps my full attention throughout the book by his well-placed real-life anecdotes and his little motivational quotes before each chapter, but also conveys many useful tips that I had not thought about prior to reading his book.
As a past Psychology major at Princeton University, Addis puts much emphasis on one's attitude as a key to success. Honestly, but tactfully, he stresses that success can only be reached with the mentality, the confidence, and the discipline to do so. I love that he touches on the fear of failure that many people face and how honest he is in revealing his own weaknesses throughout the book.
The inner workings and motivations of the mind are not the only aspect he talks about, however. Addis does an excellent job at balancing the content of his book, as he puts an equal emphasis on social skills, self-presentation, and, maybe most important of all, balance between work and life. It is the well-rounded nature of this book that makes it so incredibly valuable to me - not to mention how effortless of a read it made it be.
I am likely to recommend this book to people I know.
January 16, 2014
Awesome book for business people!
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February 3, 2014Thank you First Reads for winning this free book. I will read and review soon.
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