Lessons of a Lifetime
Adapt or Die
Winning Strategies
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“Unless you read it yourself, you won’t know what this book could be for you.” – Thomas Ruiz
The right methodologies make all the difference in speeding up the growth of your business. Learn firsthand from an executive and leader who has “been there, done that,” and has the awards to prove it. Put Tom’s decades of experience to work for your company today.
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The Secret Sauce of Business Success
How do you build a business that grows in size and value year after year after year? How do you foster a culture that becomes a “best place to work,” drives innovation, and produces industry-leading customer satisfaction? Tom Douglas shares his recipe for success and reveals what it takes to win in business and life.
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Then this is the book for you! Adapt or Die shows you how to build an innovative, high-growth, agile business by creating value for your customers, employees, and community. Tom Douglas shares the hard-won wisdom born out of building an award-winning, industry-leading business and reveals the proven processes he used to make that happen.
Who It’s For
Business owners and leaders who are anxious to grow and take their organization to the next level.
Every small business owner who wants to make sure that the future of their business, family, and legacy is secure.
Busy executives who need proven methodologies to follow to solve the problems that plague all growing businesses.
Professionals at any level who want to kickstart their journey into leadership and management.
Struggling business owners who need to know they aren’t alone and that every challenge has a solution just waiting to be discovered.
Leaders at any organization who want to institute processes that reduce friction, generate stability, and increase efficiency.
Entrepreneurs who need practical tips for structuring their company and overcoming common new business impediments.
Corporate trainers who need a book that teaches the full spectrum of leadership skills.
Anyone looking to improve leadership skills such as problem solving, active listening, conflict resolution, and overall business intelligence.
Goals for Adapt or Die
Change yourself. Become the spouse, parent, partner, friend, mentor, influencer, citizen, and leader you’ve always wanted to be. Enhance your business knowledge and cultivate people skills as you generate lifelong financial security.
Change your business. Break the pattern of “putting out fires” and reactionary management. Institute processes that facilitate stable workflows and reliable outcomes. Finally have time to work “on the business” instead of “in the business.”
Change the world. When your business thrives, so will your people. As their stability and happiness grows, there will be domino effect throughout your community. This is how every successful business makes the world a better place.
Meet the Author
Meet Tom
The mind behind Adapt or Die.
- Tom has led his company to 9 consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000, something only 1% of CEOs who make the list ever achieve.
- Tom joined JMARK as a level one engineer and worked his way up the ranks before purchasing the company in 2001. As CEO, he soon formulated processes which provided repeatable outcomes and a predictable revenue stream, putting JMARK on a growth trajectory that continues to this day and transforming the way the region engaged with technology.
- Tom is a trusted technology adviser to a global list of clients, an innovator in managed services, and an engaging speaker on topics such as executive strategies, entrepreneur tactics, technology trends, IT maturity methodologies, cybersecurity, and other leadership and technology subjects.
Tom’s Most Requested Business Topics
Tom is known for his engaging presence as a writer, speaker, and coach, with a style that combines Midwestern candor with heartfelt sincerity. Whether it’s leadership, technology, growth strategies, operations and tactics, or creating value in business, he knows that success funnels down to three key areas.
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What Other Executives and Readers Say
I’ve read many business books over the years, but it’s not often that I get to read a business book that is so full of great content AND easy and fun to read. This book delivers big time on both head and heart.
Personally, I love the depth of the Algorithm of Success. Great principles and concepts. Regardless of if you lead a company, a team, or you’re about to launch a start-up, there’s something here for you. Do yourself a favor and get this book now. You won’t want to put it down.
This book catalogs the many journeys, complete with struggles and “knee scrapes”, of starting a business, building that business, and learning that it is not about the business OF BUSINESS but about the work-culture that powers that business. The author’s open narrative is almost a day by day, event by event, on the many challenges that might strike a growing business. The author learns along that journey that the work-culture was going to be the fuel to power the engines of success and allow the company not only to survive but to thrive. I look forward to a sequel with the author looking back on what successes lasted the test of time and inevitable change but also what work-culture impacts had the greatest impact on his personal life. I found the book to be engaging, thought-provoking and written in a manner which was easy to digest.
I have read a minimum of 100 business books a year since 1989. Most are repetitive and mundane. This one is not. It’s evident that the author knows what he’s talking about. He has taken his years of personal experience and created an “algorithm” for what every small business (or large business) needs to focus on to succeed. A great story with lots of fantastic ideas, advice, and tools. Most importantly, it was written in such a way that I could immediately start to implement what I was learning. I’m going to make sure that everybody on my team reads it, I know it’s going to improve our business greatly. This book was a superb investment of my time and money. Definitely a five-star.