The Perfect Mix, Helen Rothberg, PhD
The Perfect Mix, Helen Rothberg, PhD
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The Perfect Mix
Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned as a Bartender

Author: Helen Rothberg, PhD

Narrator: Candace Thaxton

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2017


Synopsis

In the tradition of the popular business classics Leadership Is an Art and What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School, Dr. Helen Rothberg, a sought-after consultant to CEOs and entrepreneurs, reveals memorable insights about leadership developed while she worked as a bartender and restaurant manager.

Good managers and good leaders are not always the same. Dr. Helen Rothberg trains leaders, from Fortune 500 executives to startup entrepreneurs, with her particular brand of ADVICE—Action, Determination, Vision, Integrity, Communication, Empathy. Based on the management and life lessons she learned from working as a bartender while getting graduate business and behavioral science degrees, each aspect of ADVICE helps leaders hone their vision—of themselves and their business. You will explore who you are and who you need to become, analyze what has worked in the past and what might work better in the future, and realize ways to continually adapt—with courage and grace—to the unpredictable, uncertain business environment.

Through the book’s colorful stories of barroom brawls and boardroom bravado, competition and cooperation, conflict and other challenges, you’ll conceive of new ways to develop working relationships with colleagues and customers; keep things running smoothly; and manage infuriating, delightful, and sometimes dangerous clients as well as temperamental and talented employees, and owners or bosses with brilliant ideas who may not communicate well.

Leading an organization is knowing when to stir or shake things up, blend or serve neat, and Dr. Rothberg finishes each chapter with the recipe for a creative cocktail that embodies a lesson, to mix perfectly, contemplate, and savor.

About Helen Rothberg, PhD

Helen Rothberg, PhD, bartended in New York City throughout her academic career. She has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, small technology start-ups, and nonprofit organizations. She speaks regularly on bartending and leadership at associations, alumni, and student gatherings. Dr. Rothberg is dual degreed in business and behavioral science, and is professor of strategy at the School of Management at Marist College, senior faculty at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, and president of consulting firm HNR Associates. She lives in Orange County, NY, with her husband, dog, and several part-time goats. She still makes a mean cocktail.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 19, 2018

Helen Rothberg taught me that all of my failures as a leader can be addressed with drinking No but in all seriousness, it was pretty entertaining. I hate self-help books (because books are more fun for escaping than for realizing you're a PoS and that authors have a better life) but this had the righ......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 07, 2019

While not at the top of my list of leadership books, the author provides good and realistic examples for the reader. Easy to read and while not a high-level leadership book, it still provides some great advice as listed below. - Management is about creating certainty in an uncertain world.... Leader......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on January 22, 2018

I'm not a reader of books of / about / how to (etc.) all things business, management, and general self-improvement, so this will likely be my 1x every 10 years or so business book for the decade. In that regard it was perfect: short, sweet, nice vignettes to illustrate the author's points, and much......more

Goodreads review by Dwika on September 01, 2020

It's the kind of productivity / management book you'll be glad to keep on your nightstand to accompany you winding down for the night. The premise of this book is really interesting for me and I've never enjoyed a management book as this one. The stories and examples that the author gives really str......more

Goodreads review by Ben on March 09, 2018

This is not typically the type of leadership book I read, but I was drawn in by the title. What kind of leadership practices does a bartender learn? I was intrigued, and I’m glad I read this book. There is so much practical leadership advice. It will keep you busy for awhile wrestling through how to......more