Strike Up the Band: Leadership in orchestrating business turnarounds

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If you are an entrepreneur, a leader in your company or organization, or have ever thought about taking the leap into private business ownership, you know that the right combination of capital, risk, management tools, and leadership is necessary to get the business to make and keep making money. Dominic D'Agostino wants to give you the combinations that worked best for him and in the various stages of his personal and professional life. Through personal accounts of his extensive and progressive experiences from employee to manager, business owner to partner, and ultimately to business consultant, D’Agostino offers the reader insight into the management tools he leveraged to achieve success with keeping businesses on track for growth and profits. Most significant are D’Agostino’s narratives on how he influenced the turnarounds of failing businesses and organizations by applying lessons he learned from both on the job and from reading literature written by other successful business leaders. D'Agostino summarizes each chapter with talking points for you to reflect on and reference later. D’Agostino’s epilogue is a Study Hall where he talks more specifically about management areas such as labor relations, community involvement, and supplies planning and strategy tools.

When you pick up Strike Up the Band, you will quickly learn D’Agostino’s voice and feel like you’re sitting with him having a personal conversation in your living room. D’Agostino stresses the importance of encouraging and maintaining the interdependence of various groups within organizations to getting them to work together, like an orchestra in perfect harmony. He likewise touts how essential interpersonal relationships are in business. As a reader, you’ll sense your own growing personal relationship with D’Agostino, and you’ll want to ask him, “Dom, then what did you do?” . . . and Dom will tell you.

Professional Endorsements

Dick Jay, President of Display Technologies
The employees in the operations department provided the biggest testament to Dominic’s success in the send-off they gave him. What better legacy could one ask for than getting recognition from those with whom you worked?

Chris Martini, President of Healthy Advice
Dominic’s experience and expertise were greatly appreciated and put Healthy Advice’s transition plan ahead of schedule. Dominic is passionate about operations and every suggestion was sincere and with the greater good of the company in mind. I will certainly recommend him to any company looking for operation efficiencies.

Carson E. R. Holman, Colonel, USA Retired
D’Agostino is a 1953 graduate of Carson Long Military Academy in Pennsylvania. As a member of the CLMA Alumni Association, he served with distinction as Assistant to the President. Also, as a member of the Board of Trustees, he provided a calming effect on some difficult issues. Anything Mr. D’Agostino writes about leadership just has to be worth reading.

Stephen Goss, Co-Founder of SimVentions,Inc.
For those who have been successful in positions of authority, this book will be a trip down memory lane. For those in school or starting careers, this book is a must read.