The SMART Degree: The Young Professional's Guide to Reality

By Anthony Reed

The SMART (Systems, Management, Accounting, and Related Technologies) Degree is a career planning guide for college students. It focuses on the reality of today's job market and your career. It covers the material, that's not mentioned in college classes, such as office politics, back stabbers, and unethical co-workers. This is based on a series of ComputerWorld articles written by the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Reed
• Release date: Mar 28, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452480541

Anthony Reed

Mr. Reed is an IT business professional and CPA with over 30 years of experience, including 25 years in management and executive positions. He’s appeared in the business, IT, travel, and sports sections of major newspapers, publications, and other media outlets across the country. This includes the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, PMI Today, CBS, NBC, USA Today, Runner’s World, Southern Living, Ebony, Go, Runner Triathlete, and the Journal of Accountancy.He holds two graduate degrees (management and accounting) and two undergraduate degrees (management and mathematics). He’s also taught collegiate business, systems analysis, database design, accounting, and project management courses. He’s also a certified Supply Chain Manager. He served on the Board of Directors for the Dallas White Rock Marathon, Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), Running USA, software firms, and various local and international not-for-profit organizations.His area of expertise has been analyzing and implementing financial (business and governmental), sales force, human resources, and manufacturing applications. He’s led multi-million dollar, international projects for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies and worked for a Big 4 CPA firm in their management advisory division.He has spoken at national and international project management, HR, accounting, IT, supply chain, and software quality assurance conferences. He has over 50 articles and five books published. The articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Datamation, Career Focus, and Runner’s World magazines. He’s also been featured on radio, television, and podcast programs.This Hall of Fame marathoner and certified distance running coach was one of about forty people in the world, who completed the marathon “hat trick.” He finished (1) over one hundred marathons (2) on all seven continents and (3) each of the fifty States. He also completed fifty marathons in one State (TX). He’s won age group and weight division trophies along the way. Subsequently, his journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents.

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Here’s What the Media Have Said About

The SMART Degree – The Young Professional’s Guide To Reality.

While the guide takes light hearted pokes at life in the corporate world, Mr. Reed mixes wisdom with wit. – The Dallas Morning News.

Sometimes humorous, the 'young professional's guidebook to reality' can provide insight into any job market that a college graduate might enter, except maybe McDonald’s. Even if you work for Satan. – The University of Texas at Arlington’s The Shorthorn.

It offers a compelling look at the 'real world' of career and personal changes which occur to most students after college. – The University of North Texas’ The North Texas Daily.

Here’s What the Media Has Said About Anthony Reed

Reed embodies the type of enthusiasm for life and the zest for a good run that might push Lance Armstrong into cycling another 100 miles for the fear of looking lazy. - Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.

Anthony Reed hasn’t stopped running since. He ran while earning his MBA, master’s of accounting, and CPA certification. And he kept going while working as an Information Technology Director at Texas Instruments, heading up his own consulting business, and teaching college accounting courses. - Runner’s World magazine.

"Running has transformed Anthony Reed’s life. He simply set goals and set about accomplishing them.’ - Dallas Morning News.

Through the years, Reed has found that many lessons learned along the race course don’t differ much from corporate America’s hills and valleys. - National BMBA Magazine.

Reed fits the profile—some would say stereotype—of a distance runner. He’s an over achiever at work and play. He has earned four degrees, is a CPA, and a certified Project Management Professional. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

How far can one man run? If Anthony Reed is the man, all over the world is the answer. He has run across a glacier in Antarctica and along the Great Wall of China. - Southern Living magazine.

Reed manages the risks of business and sport with determination and a commitment to life long learning...Risk management is a concept Reed applies to very different areas of his life. He said the process is similar for a marathoner and businessperson. - University of Texas at Dallas’ Mercury.

You might have trouble convincing anyone that endurance running is a dangerous sport—unless you’re Anthony Reed, a marathon runner has tackled the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents. - Webster World magazine.

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Other books by Anthony Reed, CPA may be purchased at your online retailers.

The books are

The Achievement Equation: Your Formula for Success

Finding the I in TEAM: Better Team Building Through Individual Building

Running Shoes are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures on All Seven Continents

Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons on All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success

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The S.M.A.R.T. Degree

The Young Professional’s Guide to Reality

by

Anthony R. Reed

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