DISRUPTING THE GAME

To succeed as a manager or a leader, you need to be strategically disruptive. Forge new ideas and approaches that vary from the norm. Don't be afraid to shake things up. Then have courage in your convictions. This is what can drive companies forward and advance a career. This is what puts you on the path to success.

Using the story of my rise from a Bronx tenement​, to Cornell​, to companies like Procter & Gamble​, and eventually to President of Nintendo of America, I'll demonstrate how speaking your mind, acting on your core beliefs, and working against the grain helped me rise faster and higher than​ I thought possible.

I hope you will be inspired by my story and take advantage of the lessons it teaches about leadership success."

LOTS of lessons and inspiring stories from well-known Nintendo leader who shares insider-insights into Nintendo through challenges and successes relating to familiar (and less familiar) products including, and not limited to, the Wii and Switch. Lessons in the book also leverage experiences gained working in LOTS of different organizations before -- and, to some extent, after retiring from -- Nintendo of America. It is fun and useful to read about the "dots" that are ultimately connected while working with Nintendo that started decades before joining (and leading) the firm.

This book should be assigned-reading for professional development courses and programs starting at the high-school level. There are reinforcements of basic lessons such as "communicate clearly" but just as many subtle approaches described in the book such as "whose office" should be used for meetings in a situation where person X needs to persuade person Y about a general direction.

The book is written very efficiently, respecting -- and rewarding -- readers' time and attention. Indeed, the size of the print-copy is very convenient -- I carried it around in my hand while finding minutes here and there to complete my first reading. The structure of the book with its focus on "so what" sections will make it easy to return to parts down the road.