{"product_id":"9781483668437","title":"Life Changing: Learning from the past; fixing the future","description":"In Life Changing, Alasdair Thompson outlines the events surrounding his sacking as chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, New Zealand’s largest business membership organisation, after twelve years of reorganisation and rebuilding the Association. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He reveals his upbringing, the people and events that shaped him, his views on business, economics and public policy, and outlines a career in local government and in various local authorities and boards. We see the man behind the media target, and he shares his beliefs and values, his crises, as well as personal transformation and newfound faith and peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Thompson’s was at the centre of a media maelstrom that led to his downfall. This book describes how he and his family coped with the aftermath and ultimately moved on, happier and stronger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLife Changing \u003c\/strong\u003elearning from the past fixing the future\u003cbr\u003eBy Alasdair Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLife Changing\u003c\/strong\u003e is what I have called my book due out early October. It is partly autobiographical and partly a commentary on a wide range of political, business, and media issues including the ethics of some leaders in those fields. It's also about my transformation from having been publicly disgraced and humiliated to a happy new and much better person with a wonderful new life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuch of what I have written written will be controversial, although I did not write it to be so.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI had some important things to say about business, political even media ethics including those of some important leaders in those field.; The media too rightly comments on such things like the collapse of finance companies and the many billions of dollars that many retirees have consequently suffered, and the increase in the suicide rate among baby boomers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe media is constantly covering such things but there are some things they do not hear the whole story about. It's a few of these I felt compelled to write about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI take responsibility for my fall from public grace; for my bad behaviour towards Mihingarangi Forbes, the interviewer from Campbell Live, ;when I lost my cool with her; this was the; bit that Campbell Live producer, Pip Keane, chose to broadcast on that programme on June 23 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNevertheless I do call Mihingarangi Forbes, John Campbell and Pip Keane for what media commentator, Dr Brian Edwards, at the time called 'dishonest journalism.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book, in five parts, covers in parts 2 and 3 my downfall as the Employer and Manufacturers (EMA) CEO in June 2011 which led to my sacking for allegedly bringing the EMA into disrepute on 6 July 2011, even though I had offered my resignation almost immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt covers how my wife Joan and I coped and ultimately dealt with the maelstrom that followed my comment, first made on Mike Hosking's NewstalkZB breakfast show, that \u003cstrong\u003esome \u003c\/strong\u003ewomen's 'monthly; sickness' problems affected their productivity and earnings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis escalated when later that afternoon I ;was interviewed by Mihi Forbes, in a 27 minute interview, the last 4 minutes of which were chosen by producer Pip Keane, as the 'best bits' (most controversial) to be broadcast that evening on Campbell Live.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is mainly parts 2 and 3 of my 5 part book, ;that are the basis of an in depth \u003cstrong\u003eTV3 3rd\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDegree\u003c\/strong\u003e programme to be screened on \u003cstrong\u003eWednesday 2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e October.\u003c\/strong\u003e The programme also looks at my life now, my transformation, having researched feminism and Christian theology, leading to me becoming a Christian, travelling extensively overseas and to again become a self-employed business advisor and tourist business operator.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife Changing is about much more than all this though, although it does reveal so much more than was ever made public at the time of my demise, mainly because I was barred, at the time, ;from talking to the media and my employer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175431913712,"sku":"9781483668437","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781483668437_p0.jpg?v=1763631724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781483668437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}