It’s All About Business: Lifetime Lessons For Success

About the Book

This book is filled with the events in my life that had the most impact on me. Many of these events changed me from who I was to who I am. They also became part of the reason why I succeeded in business. Everyone is changed by the experiences they have, so what I have to say should be relevant to others. In each chapter, I highlighted the lessons I learned to pass on what my experiences taught me. No one had my experiences, but many other people might have grown up shy, or saw others smarter than they were, or failed in business, or worked for tough bosses. If any of those are you, then perhaps this book will help you. I didn’t think that my own story in and by itself would interest many people. Memoirs are usually about famous people or people who did something special. I never won a race, held public office, or was in the movies. I just did my thing, minded my own business, and pressed on day after day, year after year. And as I write this at age seventy-four, I think I have made something useful out of my life, but more important than that, I think the experiences I had that changed me might make you understand yourself a little more and perhaps even provide some guidance for your life. Only you can decide.

About the Author

ALLEN H. LIPIS, PhD

Dr. Lipis was the president of Congregation Beth Jacob, the largest orthodox congregation in Atlanta, during 2003 and 2004. After services were over, Dr. Lipis gave concluding remarks that included quotations he selected from hundreds of quotations he reviewed to be unlifting, often funny and appropriate to the occasion. After many congregants requested copies of these quotations, Dr, Lipis decided to publish them in this book.

Dr. Lipis was the owner and CEO of Global Concepts before he sold the company to McKinsey & Company. Through more than forty years of consulting to the financial industry, Dr. Lipis has been instrumental in fostering new banking products and technologies in e-commerce and Internet banking, retail banking, cash management, credit cards and debit cards, ATM services and systems, home banking, automated clearing houses, and check processing. He has delivered speeches in his field to most major US conventions and internationally on a wide range of topics.