20 Feb Wexford author gives life lessons in new book
Gorey Echo June 2nd 2011
Wexford author gives life lessons in new book
A BOOK about business and life lessons by a Wexford author was launched by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin at a function to be attended by business leaders from around Ireland at Whites Hotel Wexford on Friday.
Well-known entrepreneur, trainer and business commentator Blaise Brosnan’s new business book Jack – Business Lessons from Life, Life Lessons from Business, has been described as a hugely authentic ‘factional’ memoir.
At the launch on Friday, Min. Howlin said: “Blaise Brosnan is an amazing man. That’s not an introduction I frequently give. In fact I don’t recall saying it about any other individual. But I doubt if there is anyone gathered here who knows – truly knows – Blaise, who wouldn’t agree with me.”
Speaking of the author’s compelling wisdom, Min. Howlin said Brosnan imbues the title character of his book Jack with this quality.
He said Jack grew up and shaped his essence in an Ireland of barter and conformity.
“In this readable, clear and incisive book he shares his wisdom with us. We are better for the experience – if we choose to be.”
The book begins at a time when children were seen but not heard, when fathers said little and internalised their feelings and mothers managed everything from scarce resources to the thoughts of their children. Brosnan, uses the life story of Jack his influencers and his influences to give concrete advice that will benefit anyone working their way from the ground up.
He sees into Jack’s mind and reflects his thoughts, revealing how he coped with life’s problems. Jack pays a price.
A former CEO of Wexford Farmers Co-operative, Brosnan holds a Masters in Management from Trinity College Dublin and is a Certified Member of the Irish Management Institute (IMI).
He moved here to wexford some 30 years ago from his native Kerry and has up to 40 years of practical business experience in Ireland, Russia and USA, 21 of them as CEO of a major multi-million euro dynamic business, and 18 years as an independent management consultant and trainer.
He has through his business consultancy and his Owner Manager Development Programme (OMDP) facilitated more than 2,000 business people to stand back from the ‘fuss’ of their day to day activity and decide how best to drive their businesses forward and achieve their objectives.
Brosnan said that he wrote Jack over a two year period because of the great demand by people he met, giving courses and in business consultations, for role models for their life.
He said: “Most people, if they read Jack, may empathise with business mangers and with entrepreneurs about the joys, the thrills and the awful woes and tragedies of business life. We need a new understanding of what it takes to get ahead and survive in business whether you are a sole trader working from home or the chief executive of an SME exporting to the far side of the globe.”