Corporate Leadership

About the Book

CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
AN EMPLOYEE’S POINT OF VIEW
Book Author: Steven Kernan

My name is Steven Kernan, and I’m the author of a new groundbreaking book entitled Corporate Leadership, An Employee’s Point of View. Please consider this press release for publication in your magazine. The unique perspective of this book and its visionary ideas could aid employees and corporate leaders in succeeding TOGETHER. Please consider what I have to say within this small but powerful book. I am available for interview by phone, in person, etc.

We call it laid off, consolidation, downsized, displaced worker, dislocated worker, decreased presence, furloughed, out sourcing your job, rightsizing, RIFed (Reduction In Force), retroactive hiring freeze, resume revision month, Amway opportunity time, become a real estate agent month, becoming an unemployment groupie, reorganization, corporate re-direction, cut back, you’ve been axed/canned/screwed, or just getting rid of the gray. Whatever label you put on it, it all ends up the same and can be just as traumatic as experiencing the death of a loved one. Author Steven Kernan states: “I think when people 45 plus years old and even younger lose their job through no fault of their own it can be a devastating experience. All of a sudden a loyal, hard working, and now ex-employee drives home to a spouse and a mortgage and tries to make sense of it all and find a strategy to regain some control of their life. While battling the question ‘What do I do now? Why did this happen to me?’ they fight terrible depression brought on from fear, low self esteem, anxiety, embarrassment, and a sense of failure. They find themselves at the mercy of a state bureaucracy composed of ineffective, disinterested workers at the local unemployment office. A type of post-traumatic stress disorder sets in which leads to even more long-term and disabling emotions.”

Steven Kernan has been through “corporate downsizing” several times and has found a remedy writing his book Corporate Leadership, An Employee’s Point of View and helping others overcome this hardship. Steve states, “Writing this book has been difficult and at the same time healing for me. It seems it has taken all my life for this small book to evolve. I assembled this book from my personal notes, various articles I have saved, and hard-earned experiences, experiences which have molded my thoughts and vision of what a real leader is and is not. Sometimes while putting my thoughts on paper and drawing the various cartoons for this book I was overwhelmed with emotions, tears, and thoughts of how this or that situation could have been improved if only the leaders would have valued people more.”

Most leadership books are stuffy and designed for the corporate aristocracy mindset. This unique book, Corporate Leadership, An Employee´s Point of View is written from the “in the trenches” ground level employee’s point of view. This small but powerful book should be “must reading” for corporate decision-makers and leaders of every kind. This book will appeal to employees at all levels as well as people who have experienced a corporate layoff or who might be facing a layoff in the future. Steven Kernan uses his experience as a corporate business consultant, ground level employee, and cartoonist to communicate that layoffs, the “final solution,” can be avoided. Steve emphasizes that for a company to survive and prosper it will take the talents and efforts of a dedicated and faithful team of employees and leaders who value and respect each other. The author strongly emphasizes the “NO-Layoff Attitude” and that real leaders of any organization must have a “leadership heart” which always puts people first. Kernan promotes the unconventional thinking that the higher a person rises in leadership, the more that person should become a servant in helping his or her people succeed.

About the Author

The author was born in 1951 and raised in Portland, Oregon, Steve graduated from Hosford Grade School in 1966 and Cleveland High School in 1970.  In 1985, he graduated from Marylhurst College with a major in Business Management and a Marketing concentration.  Steve also holds two Associate degrees, one in Industrial Technical Illustration, and the other in Forest Products Technology.  His military service includes four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War (1971-75) and six years in the Arizona Air National Guard (1991-96).

The author has 15 years of professional experience as a free-lance business consultant.  As a business consultant, he has focused on employer-employee relations, conflict resolution, leadership training, product marketing, and advertising.  In addition to consulting, Steve has been a graphic artist, draftsman, technical illustrator, computer artist, architectural illustrator, cartoonist, bonded courier, lumberjack, sawmill manager, manufacturing plant designer, marketing/advertising director, technical writer, and general laborer, and has worked in mill construction, retail sales, and retail store design.  Steve has also served as a volunteer counselor to incarcerated men and youth at various penitentiaries and minimum-security facilities.  He has counseled adults of all ages in marital and premarital issues and various Christian topics, and has worked as a youth counselor and fitness instructor for the YMCA and other health-related organizations. Steve Kernan currently resides in Kennewick Washington with his wife Stephanie and their pup Skuffy. Steve is founder and president of his company "Project Leadership" and teaches 5 day courses in ethical leadership, pre-employment skills, and business management.