From A.D.D. to CEO: A Ceo's Journey from Chaos to Success

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Advantage Media Group, Sep 21, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 112 pages
Take the quiz to see just how ADD you are... or maybe how "ABC" you are This book is about the 8 stages of a growing company (take the quizzes to see which stage you are in ) and the CHAOS that happens along the way under the leadership of an ADD Captain And how I (Captain Harrison) saved the ship with help from the outside. From a year when accountants recommended I liquidate the assets, to the year when my husband and I successfully sold the company, my story is full of helpful strategies and humorous stories for ADD people and those who are close to them in the work world and the personal world A quick and entertaining read with charts and lists that you can use immediately.

 

Contents

Foreword
9
Who Am
26
Stages My Company and I Went Through
43
KISS Management
69
Helpful Forms and Strategies
85
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

ASHTON HARRISON lives in Richmond, Virginia, is married, and has 2 children, 2 stepchildren, and 2 grandchildren. With an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Richmond, her career spanned from owning her own business at age 16, to teaching in public schools, to working as a VP at a rapidly growing furniture company, to starting and owning her own multi-million dollar lighting and catalog business, Shades of Light. She has won business awards, authored business articles, designed numerous lighting products, is often quoted in her industry and has spoken on many panels. She has appeared on the Christopher Lowell show and NBC's New York Open House. Here she tells the story of her own company's journey through good times and bad under the sporadic leadership of an ADD personality and how she finally found help to get to her "end game."

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