Role

About the Book

We sometimes choose. Sometimes, we are compelled to take many roles in our personal and work life. As the saying goes, we are “wearing many hats.” The challenge is that some of these hats are worn at the same time, and there are many who are waiting to see how best you fit the hat. Particularly, in your work life, you are driven to fit best the many hats in different roles you may take up. How it works outs is that the hat will best fit to how you perform the role as you perceive it to be or, more so, how it is perceived by others. Role is a wake-up call to executives and managers to realize that although education and experience may qualify for the role, performing and sustaining the performance in the role will largely depend on what external factors influence the role and what internal drivers sustain the performance. It is the metaphor of a bubble. A bubble, no matter how deep it is formed in the sea, will find it’s way up only as long as it remains a bubble. For a bubble to sustain its form, a bubble needs to withstand the oceanic pressure with the little air within. The Role elaborates how you can remain a bubble in the ocean of work. When you have inner strength to balance the external pressure, you, like a bubble, will keep going up!

About the Author

Bradley Emerson, is a product of St Benedict’s College Colombo. A MBA from PIM (Sri.J), Fellow of Institute of Bankers (SL), Holder of an Advance Diploma in Management Accounting (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK)) • Bradley has been a career Banker prior to joining CIMA in May 2007, as the Regional Director, Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, He has worked with, Commercial Bank as Senior Manager Operations, Bank of Oman Bahrain and Kuwait as Operations In-Charge, Nations Trust Banks as Head of Retail Banking and Pan Asia Bank as Deputy CEO. • Bradley received the Achievers Award in 2004, from the PIM, and Top HR Leader’s award by the World HR Congress in July 2017 in recognition of outstanding achievements. • Served as an Examiner for the National Quality Awards 1996 – 1998, and Bank Marketing for the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka, 2001 & 2003. He has been appointed at judging panels of MTI Consulting for “MTI Venture Start up Challenge“ and Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing for “SLIM Brand Excellence 2010”. • Visiting Faculty Management Sciences , COMSAT University, Lahore Pakistan Bradley is currently the Founder CEO of Business Athlete and Executive Director at Imperial College of Higher Education ( IIHE) Colombo