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Guiding Your Raft, 17 Lessons in Leadership To Safely Guide Your Business Through Calm and Tumultuous Waters is a book on business leadership and is full of real-life experiences and lessons in leadership. If you are looking for inspiration, new perspectives, and ways to solve you most challenging business situations or are just looking for simple solutions to simple business questions, this book is worth reading. Anyone who finds themselves in a leadership position can benefit from the stories within its pages and creative solutions to business challenges we all find in the day-to-day running a business, as well as the more strategic challenges.If your business is running smoothly - calm waters - Guiding Your Raft provides strategies to take advantage of the calm while you prepare for the rough times. If you are in the middle of business crisis - tumultuous waters - you will find strategies for surviving and thriving through the challenges.Guiding Your Raft is a collection of real life stories and lessons. If you are in a new leadership role, domestic or international, you will find inspiration, thoughts and actionable principles to guide your business. If you have held a leadership role, these stories and principles may inspire new ideas for growing your business.

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Dano Ybarra is a global executive building world-class organizations and driving product and technology innovation for competitive advantage on a worldwide level. He is a visionary leader, capable of assessing complex situations to develop practical, yet creative solutions. His experience spans general management, P&L oversight, strategic business development, operations, product management, M&A, sales, and marketing, resulting in top-line growth with responsible operating expenses. Ybarra is a frequently requested public speaker. Ybarra catapulted a startup from US$500,000 to $120 million in less than 3 years with $28 million EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization), launching the industry's first DSL router and seizing world-leading market share at 34%. This resulted in the company's ultimate sales to a $100 billion global conglomerate for over $1 billion. Ybarra has served as senior vice president to a worldwide sales and marketing organization and as general manager for a division of a $7 billion global enterprise. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of several companies. Through his leadership, he has turned around several venture-backed startups and privately-held companies. Away from the office, Ybarra enjoys time with his wife and children, training and riding horses, skiing and snowboarding, hiking and backpacking, learning about other cultures, and serving others. He also loves river rafting when someone else is the guide!

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