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The Vice Chairman's Doctrine: Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0
There are books about product and companies but no books about a company as a product. The Vice Chair arrives from orbit around a corporation with a doctrine of leadership without authority for business warriors who reject control, live in a world of influencers, and aspire to become one. Process and culture converge as competitive advantage by refashioning priorities for Industry 4.0 through unorthodox lenses in a no holds-barred treatment of influence and leverage complete with coaching, mantras, and essential tales of leadership. Competitive action is focused through design thinking and transformation within a social system. A greater metamorphosis combines personal development with management of a company as though it were a product, leading to culture, branding, and innovation in the form of actionable values.
184 pages, Paperback
Published March 28, 2022
About the author
Ian Domowitz
21 books7 followersIan Domowitz is a veteran of the military, academia, and Wall Street. He splits his time between Manhattan and the woods of Pennsylvania, where he spends an excessive amount of time conversing with his two English Setters. Despite holding 12 patents in financial technology, he promises no use of generative AI in his written work.
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August 1, 2021
The Review
What a unique and inspired new direction for non-fiction, business-driven books. The author does a great job of creating a new direction for business-led storytelling, opting for personal and transformative stories and experiences rather than cold hard numbers and figures. The concept of creating a company as you would a product is such a fresh and interesting concept.
The balance of research and development mixed with the author’s unique wit and charm is what really sold this narrative. The concept that people in a company will follow those for whom they perceive to be a leader rather than who they are told is the boss is such a unique concept. It adds to the idea in business that a sense of community and partnerships is essential to the continued success of any company. This and so many other lessons await in this well-written and fascinating read.
The Verdict
A masterful, thought-provoking and engaging non-fiction read, author Ian Domowitz’s “The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine” is a must-read business book. A brilliant deep-dive into business growth and the balance of leadership and power, the author’s unique writing style, hopping back and forth between the voice of The Vice Chairman and the author himself, added humor and wit into the business-led book, creating a tone that could benefit readers of all backgrounds. If you haven’t yet, be sure to grab your copy today!
What a unique and inspired new direction for non-fiction, business-driven books. The author does a great job of creating a new direction for business-led storytelling, opting for personal and transformative stories and experiences rather than cold hard numbers and figures. The concept of creating a company as you would a product is such a fresh and interesting concept.
The balance of research and development mixed with the author’s unique wit and charm is what really sold this narrative. The concept that people in a company will follow those for whom they perceive to be a leader rather than who they are told is the boss is such a unique concept. It adds to the idea in business that a sense of community and partnerships is essential to the continued success of any company. This and so many other lessons await in this well-written and fascinating read.
The Verdict
A masterful, thought-provoking and engaging non-fiction read, author Ian Domowitz’s “The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine” is a must-read business book. A brilliant deep-dive into business growth and the balance of leadership and power, the author’s unique writing style, hopping back and forth between the voice of The Vice Chairman and the author himself, added humor and wit into the business-led book, creating a tone that could benefit readers of all backgrounds. If you haven’t yet, be sure to grab your copy today!
July 23, 2021
I was not too sure what to expect when picking up this book but having read the introduction, I was keen to start.
It is an incredibly readable book. Not what I was expecting, a book on how to do business, but a book packed with the most fascinating, inspiring and often quite harrowing anecdotes, experiences, memoirs and reflections about what is to be a vice chairman and renovation and change in companies.
The author talks about business and companies in such an insightful way, telling the reader not just about the business in itself, but about one’s background and the huge impact this has on our abilities and successes in the world of leadership.
The book teaches us all valuable life lessons. I thought initially, it was a book for entrepreneurs and business people, but this is a book for anyone. I recommend it to anyone who would like to have an insightful view of this fascinating world.
It is an incredibly readable book. Not what I was expecting, a book on how to do business, but a book packed with the most fascinating, inspiring and often quite harrowing anecdotes, experiences, memoirs and reflections about what is to be a vice chairman and renovation and change in companies.
The author talks about business and companies in such an insightful way, telling the reader not just about the business in itself, but about one’s background and the huge impact this has on our abilities and successes in the world of leadership.
The book teaches us all valuable life lessons. I thought initially, it was a book for entrepreneurs and business people, but this is a book for anyone. I recommend it to anyone who would like to have an insightful view of this fascinating world.
July 14, 2021
The Vice Chairman's Doctrine: A Guide to Rocking the Top in Industry 4.0 by Ian Domowitz is a transformative book that takes a look at the way business works currently, and how to change that paradigm. The author has a wealth of experience from which to garner his insights, with 19 years spent in the academic world, as well as 17 years on Wall Street. This book is the resultant amalgamation of those experiences as the author explores business culture today. With an abundance of examples utilizing humor along with research and stories, Domowitz explores how companies themselves become the brand. If you are currently in the business world as a leader or desire to be a leader, this is a must-read. Highly recommend.
July 18, 2021
The Vice Chairman's Doctrine was written by Ian Domowitz who was a Ph.D. in economics and used his knowledge to bring this book to life. A simple guide to the top. Domowitz combines personal development with the management of a company as though it were a product. This is meant to make a leader out of the reader!
I recently started my own company, so I was in need of a book to clarify my ideas and help me organize my thoughts. And this was it! The author’s writing makes it very easy to follow up, and there were some funny moments that made me laugh, too. The last part, “about his assistant”, was the cherry on top. I am confident now to say that I was able to take in all his advice, and I am ready to put them in action!
I recently started my own company, so I was in need of a book to clarify my ideas and help me organize my thoughts. And this was it! The author’s writing makes it very easy to follow up, and there were some funny moments that made me laugh, too. The last part, “about his assistant”, was the cherry on top. I am confident now to say that I was able to take in all his advice, and I am ready to put them in action!
August 1, 2021
The Vice Chairman's Doctrine written by Ian Domowitz is a self-help business management book that offers a lot of information, so much information that at times I feel like it loses its main message. I always love reading self-help books especially when it teaches about how to own the marketing and business system and be successful on it, but most of the time, I prefer them to be short and straight-forward.
In this book I found it too long and there were information that were unnecessary. I understand that the author is trying to explain everything further, but it could be better when explained in simplicity where readers can easily understand and digest the information. I still learned a lot of things and I think a lot of readers will still find this book helpful.
In this book I found it too long and there were information that were unnecessary. I understand that the author is trying to explain everything further, but it could be better when explained in simplicity where readers can easily understand and digest the information. I still learned a lot of things and I think a lot of readers will still find this book helpful.
July 20, 2021
Success through change management and company product
The vice chairman’s doctrine is a book about being a success and marketing your company as the product you are selling. Presented through short stories and humor this book will teach you about being a success and promoting your company as the product you are selling. The vice chairman has learned from a wide variety of sources and combine this knowledge into a great reference for reaching the next level in your business. Leadership without authority Is a great method of showing your people the right path. A good read with great knowledge. Check this one out folks. It is worth the read.
The vice chairman’s doctrine is a book about being a success and marketing your company as the product you are selling. Presented through short stories and humor this book will teach you about being a success and promoting your company as the product you are selling. The vice chairman has learned from a wide variety of sources and combine this knowledge into a great reference for reaching the next level in your business. Leadership without authority Is a great method of showing your people the right path. A good read with great knowledge. Check this one out folks. It is worth the read.
July 21, 2021
Long but informative
This book is not a memoir, it is a personal look at management by the author who has spent a considerable amount of his career in various roles that allow him to take an in depth look at the upper echelons. As Vice Chair, there is no clear guidance on how you can be a standout leader at your level and the author gives us this guidance in this book.
While valuable, in depth, and chock-full of information, I found this book to be very long, and at times dry which made it hard to read. There is some humor and interesting anecdotes in here but overall, the book is geared towards knowledge.
This book is not a memoir, it is a personal look at management by the author who has spent a considerable amount of his career in various roles that allow him to take an in depth look at the upper echelons. As Vice Chair, there is no clear guidance on how you can be a standout leader at your level and the author gives us this guidance in this book.
While valuable, in depth, and chock-full of information, I found this book to be very long, and at times dry which made it hard to read. There is some humor and interesting anecdotes in here but overall, the book is geared towards knowledge.
July 25, 2021
Author Ian Domowitz has created a compilation of very interesting information and shared all this in a unique way in the pages of this book. His narrative style is very good and stands out from others in the same genre. The reading feels light and engaging. The Vice Chairman's Doctrine is a book that taught me a lot. I believe that although it is aimed at businessmen, it can be read by all. Every reader will find something to appreciate; I am sure.
This guide is very useful to transform our business and make it better; in order to succeed we have to change all the time. I certainly recommend reading this very useful book!
This guide is very useful to transform our business and make it better; in order to succeed we have to change all the time. I certainly recommend reading this very useful book!
July 25, 2021
The Vice Chairman's Doctrine, written by Ian Domowitz, is a book different from others in the genre. It is middle length and full of interesting information. What I liked the most about this book is that the author wrote it in a very interesting way, something that would attract many readers. After reading it I can say that the author did a great job researching and adding a lot of valuable information in these pages.
It is a book for business people but I believe that those who aren’t can benefit from this reading in a way or another. For this reason, I would recommend this book to everyone.
It is a book for business people but I believe that those who aren’t can benefit from this reading in a way or another. For this reason, I would recommend this book to everyone.
July 25, 2021
This book had me at the start. As soon as I started reading it, it felt like fresh air. I really enjoyed how the author talks and explains certain concepts that are key in understanding how leadership works, for example.
I think readers are going to extract really valuable lessons that not only are going to be used in their jobs but in their personal life as well. I totally agree with author Ian Domowitz when he mentions that a true gifted leader doesn't have to say anything in order to get people's attention. Same idea applies in life, humans will follow people who make them grow and be better.
To sum up, I think this is an excellent read.
I think readers are going to extract really valuable lessons that not only are going to be used in their jobs but in their personal life as well. I totally agree with author Ian Domowitz when he mentions that a true gifted leader doesn't have to say anything in order to get people's attention. Same idea applies in life, humans will follow people who make them grow and be better.
To sum up, I think this is an excellent read.
September 14, 2021
It is easy to teach a simple idea. It is easy to teach a complex idea in a complex way. It is hard to teach a complex idea in a simple way.
This axiom applies to The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine: A Guide to Rocking the Top in Industry 4.0 by Ian Domowitz. Unfortunately, it applies in the negative. The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine attempts to be both entertaining and insightful, but it succeeds at neither.
The basic premise is a series of loosely connected leadership practices, shared from the perspective of “The Vice Chairman”. I wish I could capture this persona’s voice, which is somehow a cross between a robot and an overbearing business-school professor, but it ends up being drowned in the river of platitudes and axioms. Nevertheless, the voice in which most of this book is written is an impediment to understanding. Leadership is complex, and adding a layer of abstraction and metaphor does not help the learner.
Back to the river: the work is, effectively, a series of business school standards wrapped in the fancy voice. The Vice Chairman sings all the latest hits: design thinking, systems theory, metacognition, cognitive neuroscience, and so on. Each one gets its turn, highlighted in a brief moment, and then on to the next. Actual application – you know, using the idea in the real world – is limited. If you want to learn and apply any of these in detail, pick up the representative work that focuses on the topic. It’ll be less effort for you as a reader, and more useful for you as a practitioner.
One of the more straightforward chapters is “The Vice Chairman’s Dog,” in which Dr. Domowitz applies principles of canine training to organizational behavior. He isn’t wrong in his application, and this chapter has useful lessons: leaders eat last, people like to explore and play, don’t punish in public, be persistent. And there are useful recommendations: mentoring is good, punishment is less effective than rewards, new things are interesting. But this is as deep into application as the book gets. The dog-training framing gets in the way of useful knowledge, which is the consistent problem with this book.
As the topics move to more complex organizational challenges, the framing becomes even more difficult. Exploring culture without clarity is a ride down a waterfall. Dr. Domowitz introduces a number of complex approaches, but never explains them or turns them into useful lessons. Take the chapter on badging, or what is normally called “roles”: the chapter opens by swirling around practical insight, then turns to high-frequency trading and brokerages and dives into the rapids. As I paged through the last third of the book, I found myself thinking: “Will any reader remember a page from this book six months after they read it?” The answer is likely no, because no page has the clarity to be memorable.
To return to the opening axiom, the lesson for readers is: if you see a complex idea, you can almost always assume the teacher is not good. It doesn’t matter how complex the idea, a good teacher would have found a way to make it simple.
This axiom applies to The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine: A Guide to Rocking the Top in Industry 4.0 by Ian Domowitz. Unfortunately, it applies in the negative. The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine attempts to be both entertaining and insightful, but it succeeds at neither.
The basic premise is a series of loosely connected leadership practices, shared from the perspective of “The Vice Chairman”. I wish I could capture this persona’s voice, which is somehow a cross between a robot and an overbearing business-school professor, but it ends up being drowned in the river of platitudes and axioms. Nevertheless, the voice in which most of this book is written is an impediment to understanding. Leadership is complex, and adding a layer of abstraction and metaphor does not help the learner.
Back to the river: the work is, effectively, a series of business school standards wrapped in the fancy voice. The Vice Chairman sings all the latest hits: design thinking, systems theory, metacognition, cognitive neuroscience, and so on. Each one gets its turn, highlighted in a brief moment, and then on to the next. Actual application – you know, using the idea in the real world – is limited. If you want to learn and apply any of these in detail, pick up the representative work that focuses on the topic. It’ll be less effort for you as a reader, and more useful for you as a practitioner.
One of the more straightforward chapters is “The Vice Chairman’s Dog,” in which Dr. Domowitz applies principles of canine training to organizational behavior. He isn’t wrong in his application, and this chapter has useful lessons: leaders eat last, people like to explore and play, don’t punish in public, be persistent. And there are useful recommendations: mentoring is good, punishment is less effective than rewards, new things are interesting. But this is as deep into application as the book gets. The dog-training framing gets in the way of useful knowledge, which is the consistent problem with this book.
As the topics move to more complex organizational challenges, the framing becomes even more difficult. Exploring culture without clarity is a ride down a waterfall. Dr. Domowitz introduces a number of complex approaches, but never explains them or turns them into useful lessons. Take the chapter on badging, or what is normally called “roles”: the chapter opens by swirling around practical insight, then turns to high-frequency trading and brokerages and dives into the rapids. As I paged through the last third of the book, I found myself thinking: “Will any reader remember a page from this book six months after they read it?” The answer is likely no, because no page has the clarity to be memorable.
To return to the opening axiom, the lesson for readers is: if you see a complex idea, you can almost always assume the teacher is not good. It doesn’t matter how complex the idea, a good teacher would have found a way to make it simple.
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