Raymond Cannefax
Mr. Cannefax, the author of "Successful Management 101" is a former Corporate Executive and Entrepreneur who, following retirement, is bringing the knowledge and skills developed over three decades of management to the masses. Following a successful 35-year business career, Mr. Cannefax has turned his focus to writing and also teaches success strategies and tactics to high school level CTE students. Related to his involvement in early American history, he instructs a course on the Anasazi and Hovenweep at the University of Utah. During his first several years of retirement he transferred his knowledge and skills developed during his corporate career by writing, Successful Management 101.
Mr. Cannefax's management career began in 1978 with AT&T. His successful management style was recognized by Saudi business magnet, Adnon Khashoggi, who recruited him to manage the global telecommunication operations for Triad America, Inc. At Triad he launched one of the first Shared Tenant Communications ventures in the United States at Salt Lake City's Triad Center. In 1986 he joined Sprint Communications' senior management team responsible for restructuring Sprint's West Division. He was a member of the team that developed the processes that restructured Sprint's West Division which resulted in their process being employed nationwide. With two Sprint executives they created a revolutionary management process utilized throughout Sprint. As Senior Regional Director of Sprint's West Division he developed the process of Training the Trainers - Sr. Managers developing Jr. Managers in the processes employed in Sprint's successful restructure.
Following Sprint, Mr. Cannefax founded Apollo Telecom, Inc., an international telecommunication provider. Upon selling Apollo to a Japanese Investment consortium, he employed he acquired and restructure Fox Communications of Utah, Inc. During his last seven years before retirement he successfully directed the restructure of Paradigm Medical Industries, Inc., to assure its survival.
Employ and Teach What Works is the basis of Successful Management 101. Throughout his career, Mr. Cannefax employed the strategies and tactics defined within his book. The updated second edition, "Successful Management 101' will be available from Amazon in mid-2025.