It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best

January 12, 2014 Leave a comment

It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best Hardcover – June 3, 2014

by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz (Author)

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Are you surrounding yourself with the right people?
Yes, your success in business and in life depends on your own performance. But have you thought about how those around you affect that performance? Do they strengthen or weaken it? Help or hinder your progress?
In It’s Not the How or the What but the Who (a phrase adapted from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos), renowned global talent management expert Claudio Fernández-Aráoz explains why people decisions—the choices you make about friends, your spouse, employees, project partners, mentors, and even elected officials—are more important than any other. To thrive, you need to get the best people in your corner and on your team, and then help them grow. Yet few people know how to do that well.
In a series of short, lively essays, Fernández-Aráoz addresses the challenges and explains how to overcome them. Based on research and stories from his nearly thirty-year career in global executive search and leadership development, each offers wisdom and practical advice about how to “get people right” in a more systematic way—from identifying your biases and accurately assessing the skills and potential of others to selecting, developing, motivating, compensating, and diversifying teams.
Engaging and often counterintuitive, the book is packed with important lessons on how to surround yourself with the best.

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Kee Koon Boon (“KB”) is the co-founder and director of HERO Investment Management which provides specialized fund management and investment advisory services to the ARCHEA Asia HERO Innovators Fund (www.heroinnovator.com), the only Asian SMID-cap tech-focused fund in the industry. KB is an internationally featured investor rooted in the principles of value investing for over a decade as a fund manager and analyst in the Asian capital markets who started his career at a boutique hedge fund in Singapore where he was with the firm since 2002 and was also part of the core investment committee in significantly outperforming the index in the 10-year-plus-old flagship Asian fund. He was also the portfolio manager for Asia-Pacific equities at Korea’s largest mutual fund company. Prior to setting up the H.E.R.O. Innovators Fund, KB was the Chief Investment Officer & CEO of a Singapore Registered Fund Management Company (RFMC) where he is responsible for listed Asian equity investments. KB had taught accounting at the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a faculty member and also pioneered the 15-week course on Accounting Fraud in Asia as an official module at SMU. KB remains grateful and honored to be invited by Singapore’s financial regulator Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to present to their top management team about implementing a world’s first fact-based forward-looking fraud detection framework to bring about benefits for the capital markets in Singapore and for the public and investment community. KB also served the community in sharing his insights in writing articles about value investing and corporate governance in the media that include Business Times, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Manual of Ideas, Investopedia, TedXWallStreet. He had also presented in top investment, banking and finance conferences in America, Italy, Sydney, Cape Town, HK, China. He has trained CEOs, entrepreneurs, CFOs, management executives in business strategy & business model innovation in Singapore, HK and China.

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