Meet Arlene Johnson, author of SuccessMapping

Now more than ever, everyone from students to CEOs need a plan for lasting and meaningful success. Filled with inspiring anecdotes and focused on actual achievement, Success Mapping cuts through doubt and confusion with a simple yet rigorous set of actions.

In August, we were privileged to host Arlene Johnson, Founder and President of the Sinequanon Group and author of Success Mapping: Achieve What You Want…Right Now!, on the StrategyDriven Podcast. During our interview, Arlene shared her insights on how to identify personal success blockers, create a life strategy, and execute the actions necessary to realize your vision of success.

Success Mapping describes how to identify the eight success blockers that are keeping you from achieving all you can. As you head toward a career or life goal, your Success Map engages you with motivational exercises and checkpoints to mark your progress. As you develop your Success Map, you will learn how to:

  • Focus energies on exactly what you want to achieve
  • Seize opportunities and leverage personal strengths
  • Make wise decisions and take actions with no regret
  • Collaborate with others for needed support or resources
  • Manage change to prevent self-sabotage
  • Create a Success Map for what you want in your life and career!

Success Mapping ensures that you take the necessary steps to create your own life strategy and follow it through to success. No more excuses. Believe in yourself and get started. Success Mapping will guide you, step-by-step!

Meet Arlene Johnson in Person!

Where:
Legacy Book Store
7300 Dallas Parkway
Plano, Texas

When:
Thursday, September 17 at 7:00 pm

Introduction by Jim Falk, President of World Affairs Council


“I love this book! It’s the perfect guide for achieving success in the twenty first century. Don’t open it unless you want to change your life.”

Sue Dark
CEO DeepNines Technologies

Additional Information

In addition to the incredible insights Arlene shares in Success Mapping and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from her Success Mapping website, (www.SuccessMapping.com). Arlene’s book, Success Mapping, can be purchased by clicking here.


About the Author

Arlene Johnson, author of Success Mapping, is Founder and President of the Sinequanon Group. Arlene is an internationally known speaker, author, and consultant with more than two decades of experience in executive leadership, change management, and sales performance coaching. She serves as trusted advisor to many Fortune 500 clients including American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Texas Instruments, and Lockheed Martin. To read Arlene’s full biography, click here.

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Leadership Inspirations – Commitment

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses.”

Ken Blanchard

Management expert and author of The One Minute Manager

Recommended Resource – How the Mighty Fall

How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
by Jim Collins

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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins examines the reasons great and good companies slip into decline, the five phases of decline, and the questions company leaders can ask to identify if their organization is declining or at risk of doing so. Consistent with his past work, Jim Collins’s conclusions of why organizations fall into decline is founded on rigorous examination of imperial evidence and the book filled with highly illustrative examples.

Benefits of Using this Reference

StrategyDriven Contributors like How The Mighty Fall because of the unique perspective Jim Collins provides on organizational decline founded on imperial research. We believe it is important for business leaders to remain ever watchful for indicators of declining performance and to this end, Jim Collins provides an insightful list of decline indicating markers. If we had one criticism of How The Mighty Fall it would be that Collins omits any thoughts as to how and with what periodicity a leader or an organization might systematically examine itself for the existence of one or more markers of decline.

How The Mighty Fall keeps with the StrategyDriven philosophy of self evaluation; giving readers insight to the warning flags of organizational decline and demise and making How The Mighty Fall a StrategyDriven recommended read.

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Effective succession and succession planning processes enable smooth transitions of power and operational continuity. Performed well, these processes help ensure the proactive identification and development of an adequate number of candidates to fill potential vacancies, careful selection of the right replacement, thorough preparation of the selectee for his or her new role and organization members to well receive the successor, and advanced provisions to support the entrant with the post transition coaching needed for their and the organization’s success.

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