Another Make a Difference Book by Networlding Publishing

Rebel’s Career Guide: How a Roundabout Professional Journey Offers the Straightest Path to Success

Marc Howze

Marc A. Howze is Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, a position he was appointed to in September 2016. In this role, he will have responsibility for the primary administrative activities of the company, including Human Resources, Labor Relations, Public Affairs, Communications, Brand Management, and Security. Howze joined Deere & Company in 2001 as an attorney. He later served as senior attorney, senior counsel, and Manager, Business Development, Consumer Equipment Division. Howze was elected Corporate Secretary and Associate General Counsel, Deere & Company, in 2006. In 2008, Howze was assigned to Deere's agricultural marketing group as marketing integration manager. In 2009, he was appointed Factory Manager, John Deere Turf Care, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and was later Global Director, Cotton Harvesting Product Line. Immediately prior to his current position, he was Vice President, Global Human Resources and Employee Communications, at Deere & Company, beginning in October 2012.

Marc A. Howze, Senior Vice-President and Chief Administrative Officer Deere & Company, did not take a typical path to becoming one of America’s top Business Leaders at a Fortune 100 company. Instead, his unlikely journey to professional success began with some counterintuitive career decisions like joining the Army after finishing his undergraduate degree and moving his family across the country for a lower-grade job. In his groundbreaking career guide, Howze explains how successful professionals pursue job opportunities that enable them to have a positive impact on the organizations they join. Sometimes this involves sacrifice and contradicts what parents, thought leaders and mentors tell us is the “right” career path. “If I had followed a traditional, safe career roadmap, I am not sure I would have landed in the C-suite,” Howze tells those who seek his advice. Instead, Howze espouses adventure, risk-taking and unconventional career choices. It is this counterintuitive mindset that helped him acquire the skills, adaptability and resilience he needed to rise to the top. After decades of making counterintuitive choices that led to advancement, Howze has developed a process for analyzing career decisions based on the opportunity to learn, make an impact and become a more marketable professional.

Core audiences: • college students • recent undergraduate graduates • masters degree candidates • recent graduates with advanced degrees • early career millennials • young professionals considering a career or job change • parents of these groups • professionals and academics who advise these groups Secondary audiences: • Mid-career employees who feel stuck • HR professionals offering career advice • Christian professionals • Corporate employee and leadership development programmers • Non-profits that help people with career building • People considering a career or job change • People transitioning from the military

Since this book has a title with the word Rebel in it, I think something bold and a treatment of a unique font for the title, especially for the word, Rebel, would work well. Also, here are examples of similar best-selling books in this category - Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans - http://a.co/i1U4995 What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Boles #1 in Resumes and Interviewing subcategories Business & Money > Job Hunting & Careers > Interviewing Business & Money > Job Hunting & Careers > Resumes - http://a.co/1uc5m3j Find What You Were Born For by Zoe McKey #2 in Vocational Guidance Business & Money > Job Hunting & Careers > Vocational Guidance Link: http://a.co/gUwROkv The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday #12 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement Business & Money > Business Life > Motivation & Self-Improvement Came out in 2014 – 867 reviews currently Has a spiritual element Supported by Steven Pressfield Link: http://a.co/2xTkYYo

I always say this: It's more about what I want. I want to be able to read all the copy on the cover. So avoid, please, all small print. I like fonts that are chunkier than thinner and bold.