Leadership from Telecommunications Industry Perspective
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Obstacles Welcome relates the experiences of Ralph de la Vega, a Cuban immigrant turned business executive and CEO of AT&T Mobility. Based on the initial chapter, I expected the book to incorporate more of the author's childhood experiences in Cuba and south Florida. However, most of the book focuses on his business experience working the telecommunications industry. While the points made are valuable, many of the examples are tedious. Additionally, the author jumps around quite a bit, which makes the book difficult to follow. Overall, the book was fairly interesting and gave insight to solid leadership principles.
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An excellent contribution to the leadership field of study. This is the way modern organizations have to operate, having leaders that connects with the feelings and emotions of their subordinates throught hope, compasion and mindfullness. A must read for every leader!
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Brodsky offers a wonderful history of wireless in terms of who and why, something that has been lacking in a wireless history  book until this publication. Those interested in understanding the personal connections of the individuals involved through the development of this industry will want to read it. Those who are working in the industry or desire to break in as entrepreneurs need to read it. His last section on creativity is wonderfully useful. If you have the guts to truly innovate, or are doing so now in any industry I highly recommend this book. It was obvious the material was well researched (due to the limited information available on some of the individuals involved from a historic perspective, Brodsky did provide sufficient information to get his many points across, somewhat rare in a book that covers 130+ years through the development of an industry). There was only one element that I would have liked to see him expand on a bit more, and that was in the area of convergence. I think a few more pages devoted to the cable and telephone networks along with wireless would have rounded out this section perfectly; but then maybe not, as it potentially could have risked loosing the true focus of wireless.
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This is a great book on leadership, written in a concise manner that is useful to anyone who is busy.  Mr. Steiner does a great job of organizing the book so that it works well as a cover-to-cover read or as a reference on specific topics.  The content is primarily made of research from other management and leadership experts combined with Mr. Steiner's deep experience as a leader himself.  While to bulk of the book is geared towards business leaders, I have found much of the advice to be useful in other leadership roles outside of the business world, particularly because Mr. Steiner emphasizes the personal side of leadership (such as the fact that leadership is a relationship between the leader and the followers).

This book is a great read for leaders and aspiring leaders.
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Mr. Trivino's book is a superb combination of auto-biography with principles of leadership rolled up into the story.  It is very interesting reading.  Furthermore, the principles of leadership he expounds upon are those that are truly relevant in the real world to guys/gals who have to lead teams of operational personnel.
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This was one of the first books colleagues recommended when I started working for a telecom company. It's definitely not light reading but an excellent reference for anything related to the telecom industry.
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The Telecom & Data Comm Handbook by Ray Horak is a well organized, accurate, and very through text that belongs in the library of any telecom professional.

I review hundreds of books every year in my job as a VoIP Trainer for TrainingCity.com.  I know I can always count on Ray Horak to present complex technical material in an easy to understand and well researched format.  I strongly recommend this text to anyone who is looking to get up to speed on the latest technologies, or in search of a guide to get started in the industry.
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Schuttler's Laws of Communication provides leaders with an intuitive framework for pinpointing the cause of organizational problems. The book includes insight from practically every industry - healthcare, business, education, hospitality, aviation, telecommunications, etc. A 'must read' for anyone serious about improving supervisor communication and organizational performance!
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This is by far and away the best book for someone in the telecom field who works with these products on a daily basis.  There is no other book that I have found that addresses these concepts in a clear and relevant manner.  I work for AT&T and trust me, this book is on point.  It is also meaningful for someone interested in learning about telecom.  The author starts the book by providing an overview of telecom and how it relates to modern technologies in use today.

Not only is the information extremely relevant and well written, the author is humorous and uses great real world examples to validate his points.

A must read!!
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Finally, a thorough treatment of this critical area!  Ward does an excellent job of describing what makes product/service development so unique in telecommunications.  I also believe the book does a very good job of explaining how to **improve** processes so the organization is optimized for service creation.
If you truly understand (or need to understand) the challenges and sometimes, the pain, in getting telecom services deployed to rate-payers and subscribers, you will appreciate this book.  As one who has lived through aspects of this, I enjoyed the reading it.  In fact, recommended it to one manager who had his whole team read it!
This book is foundational for anyone who desires to understand the right way  to develop product and services in telecom/network centric companies.
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As someone who has worked in the software industry for 10+ years, I've seen all kinds of leadership styles. Often, because of the Peter principle, employees are thrust into management roles when they ahve no business being there. Anyone in a constantly-evolving industry could benefit from the simple and clear insights in this book
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Dan is a true pioneer in the lead management space and "The Truth About Leads" is a great way of sharing his experience and perspective with business executives. While the concept of pursing fewer prospects may be contrary to the instincts of sales professionals and marketers, Dan's book presents this compelling case through research as well as real-world client examples. I'd recommend this book to any company that is re-thinking its pipeline approach.
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Dave shares his unique take on leadership through stories of persevering in the construction industry during the 2008 economic downturn.  Tried and true leadership approaches coupled with real examples of leadership success makes this a relevant read for any leader.
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Good survey of leadership trends for new graduates and professionals. In this book, the authors discuss the importance of self-management as well as technological savvy. Doesn't really break a lot of new ground, but distills much of the wisdom of many other leadership books, all in one place.
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In reading this book, I also found the CARLINI-ISMs extremely helpful and interesting as they relate to pragmatic management in everyday business. In addition to covering real estate and technology, this book also sheds light on leadership and management for 21st century organizations.

In order to create solid local economic development, there is a need to understand how to apply technology to business and to commerical real estate.  This book covers many facets in areas that need new definitions for 21st century opportunities.  The chapter on procurement provides a broader set of criteria than what most people use to buy mission critical technology for their enterprise.

I recommend the book for people trying to understand how technology impacts every facet in every industry competing in today's global commerce.
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The events industry has evolved rapidly over the last few years and technology has played a major role in the transformation.  This book blends the author's personal knowledge of events with insights from other industry leaders.  It's a true guide to understanding the future of events and for designing more meaningful and power programs. No matter how long you have been in the industry, you will learn something new from this book.
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As a person with a very short background in working with access technologies, and just having started industry research in LTE radio network features, I found this book to be very valuable for learning about the physical layer technologies and MAC layer properties of LTE, and to get an overview of the system architecture evolution parts. Although aimed at being more descriptive than explanatory, the book provides an excellent way of getting to grips with the two major mobile broadband access technologies of the future. The chapters follow a logical progression, the wording is precise and accurate, and many figures illustrate the key technologies. I recommend this book to anyone working with or studying wireless communications.