Relationship Equity - by Richard Walker (Hardcover)

About the Book

RICHARD WALKER, who grew up in a Northern English town "where the sheep outnumbered the people," can tell you a story or two about how he became the CEO of a thriving American tech consulting company. In his new book, he takes us on that journey - and reveals how to build a better business and a better life through the power of Relationship Equity. At York Solutions, Richard applies the principle to deliver the brightest and best talent to his corporate clients. He helps seasoned professionals develop their networking skills. He finds brilliant IT newcomers and launches them into life-changing careers. Richard's prospects seemed limited when he was a youth, but the people he met introduced him to a broader world. Today, his mission is to pay forward the kindnesses that have come his way - and to spread the word about a way of life that will broaden your horizons and help you achieve things you may have thought to be impossible.

Book Synopsis

"Humanity is the core of our business." -- Richard Walker

As the CEO of a prominent IT consulting firm, York Solutions, Richard Walker has applied the principle of Relationship Equity to achieve tremendous business success as he builds the tech talent pool and helps professionals develop their careers. Walker describes Relationship Equity as the good faith you can build by investing in relationships faithfully and steadily, with no expectation of reaping a return.

In his new book, Relationship Equity: Your Cornerstone Investment to Great Gains in Business and Life, Walker takes his readers on a journey of discovery, examining a principle with the power to revolutionize both business and personal lives.

He explains that the relationships we forge with others are of supreme importance--and when you get those right, the rest will follow.

"If you are a friend who is genuine," he writes, "you will have genuine friends--and lo and behold-- they will want to help you just as you have helped them."

Sounds simple? It's not.

Relationship Equity has many nuances, and Walker explores them all in Relationship Equity. To share the story of how he developed the philosophy, he escorts his readers back to the small-town world of his youth in northern England, then onward to his corporate life at the helm of a thriving American tech company.

"In our families, our businesses, our communities, our world--we need one another," Walker writes. "We are not islands unto ourselves."

In his new book, Walker teaches us what he and his company are doing today to pay forward the many acts of kindness that have come his way through the years. Richard Walker has made it his business to change lives for the better, and his business reflects that.

From the Back Cover

Investing in Relationships

"I'M ABOUT AS TECHNICAL AS A PINT OF GUINNESS," says Richard Walker, who has devoted his career to developing technical talent in others. A wee bit of irony there? Get to know Richard and it all makes sense. Once a small town bricklayer in Yorkshire, he became CEO of York Solutions, a thriving national IT consulting company based in the Twin Cities - and he did it on the power of Relationship Equity. In his new book, Relationship Equity: Your Cornerstone Investment to Great Gains in Business and Life, Richard takes us along on his lifelong journey of discovery to explain this simple yet complex principle. We learn how he has applied it for both business and personal success. Along the way, he has enriched the IT talent pool, helping others get a new start in life just as others helped him. He has assisted tech professionals in advancing their careers. Relationship Equity isn't just about growing the bottom line, though. It's about strengthening families, marriages, communities. It's about helping others to build better lives by reaching out in friendship with no expectation of getting anything in return. In our authentic relationships, Richard tells us, we tap into a powerful force for good that, in the end, will profit us most of all.