Remarkable: Proven Insights to Accelerate Your Career

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Discover the Remarkable way to supercharge and accelerate your career.

Become the most valuable team player in your company, climb the ladder as a top performer, and gain the utmost recognition and respect from your peers and superiors.



A comprehensive guide to what really counts and isnt taught in business school, Remarkable is the first and last professional playbook youll ever need. Step-by-step advice takes you from the early stages of a business career to the top-level executive position. Follow the journey, lessons, and remarkable insights of an executive who has seen it all, and now offers pragmatic and infallible wisdom that you can use immediately.



David Kronfeld has mentored professionals and executives who now lead successful careers. Hes been a management consultant with Booz Allen, a corporate executive, and the founder and chairman of JK&B Capital, a leading venture capital firm. His extensive top management experience and sitting on boards of directors means hes been actively involved with the highest priority challenges facing dozens of companies. Hes championed strategies that flourished, helmed businesses that thrived, and knows what makes leaders prosper or fail. Be it hiring or firing, hes decided the fates of employees and managers at all levels, including CEOs.



Within Remarkable, David Kronfeld offers his incomparable life lessons, experience, and proven insight for your entire career, from entry level skillswriting a great resume, performing well on interviews, how to get promotedto the management-level expertise that covers becoming a better negotiator, employer, and company leader. With his extensive guidance, youll learn how to accelerate your career and powerfully impact your effectiveness and career trajectory.

Reviews

"""The best business book you'll ever read.""
William F. Farley, former Chairman and CEO of Fruit of the Loom

""There is a difference between smart and wise. Many, many people are smart. Few are wise.David is both. All would benefit from the comprehensive advice, distilled over years,that is captured in Remarkable. This book is indispensable and, frankly, long overdue.""
Mark S. Fowler, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

""Remarkable work; it is a must-read for every student interested in businessa great bridge between management theory and practice.""
Dipak C. Jain, former Dean of the Kellogg School of Management

""If Remarkable had been around when I first started in business,I'd have saved myself years of trial and error.""
Brittney Saks, Global Private Wealth Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers

""Remarkable, pragmatic, and superbly insightful! If you care about your future,this is a brilliant way to invest your time.""
George Heinrichs, Chairman and CEO of ANDE Corporation and Cofounder and former CEO of Intrado

""Over the years, David's insights and advice were invaluable to me.I'm positive Remarkable will prove the same for you.""
Nancy Li, former CTO of Computer Associates and former President and CEO of NeuLion

""David's observations often make you wonder, Why didn't I think of that' This book is an invaluable resource, and your copy will be dog-eared before you know it.""
Lawrence J. Fox, Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School"

Author Bio

David Kronfeld founded JK&B in 1996. Kronfeld is an experienced venture capital investor and telecommunications industry executive with more than 30 years of experience. Prior to forming JK&B, Kronfeld was a General Partner at Boston Capital Ventures ("BCV") where he focused on making venture capital investments in companies in the telecommunications and software industries. Before joining BCV, Kronfeld was with Ameritech where he was the Vice President of Acquisitions and Venture Investments responsible for directing Ameritech's venture capital investments in a broad array of telecommunications-related companies and all of Ameritech's mergers and acquisitions activities. In addition, Kronfeld was a Senior Manager at Booz Allen & Hamilton and a Systems Analyst at Electronic Data Systems (E.D.S.). Kronfeld earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with high honors and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of Business.