Here’s another catchy phrase that business leaders like to throw around—strategic planning. Yet, the ones who really get it and see its value are the leaders who’ve taken their business to great heights. And there’s the critical difference. You can say you’re doing this, or you can really do this and mean it. Your team […]
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Up From Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed
John Hope Bryant brings hope to all those who aspire to greater circumstances, wealth and success. He also shows through his own story that anything is possible if you are willing to try. And what is most important is to clarify that while these are indeed desirable outcomes and topics addressed in the book, they […]
Your Oxygen Mask First: 17 Habits to Help High Achievers Survive & Thrive in Leadership & Life
In the category of success books, this is one that leaders, and emerging leaders, must have on their bookshelves. And it is also one that you will turn to time and again for insight and inspiration. If you’re ready for a shake up in the way that you’ve been approaching success, then this personal growth […]
Author Insights: Expert Advice For Achieving Financial Bliss
This is a topic that will hit home for so many people. Achieving a point in your life when you feel you have a solid financial foundation reduces stress, increases security and opens the door to a realm of possibilities. It’s not all about money. After all, money doesn’t buy you happiness, right? But understanding […]
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Everyone knows legendary basketball star and coach, Phil Jackson, and much for his unconventional approach to leading elite athletes onto championship victory. What you may not know his how he chose a more mindful and spiritual path to success and how he thoughtfully blended spiritual wisdom with traditional methodologies to achieve unapparelled success on the […]
Unapologetically Ambitious
I absolutely love this book. And I so wish that I had read this book in my youth. Because of those and many other reasons, I have starred this as one I’ll gift again and again to the young people in my life. What a thoughtful, motivational journey author Shellye Archambeau has outlined. From the […]
Alignment Strong: A Strategic and Human-Centric Handbook for Competitive Leadership
This book by John Quinlan is designed to coach organizational leadership on positive change, using DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man as a symbolic structure for organizational alignment. His Alignment Strong model outlines ten essential components of competitive leadership and organization-wide change. As he tells the story of his own career alignment, you’ll learn about major setbacks and […]
Seek to Be Wise: Finding Extraordinary Wisdom in Everyday Life
I love a book that reminds us of what we already know in our heart but delivers these gentle reminders in a way that is so profoundly different that it’s fresh and new. Seek to Be Wise by Chess Britt is one of those books. It’s a success book, in my purview, and though its […]
Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
It isn’t hard to find a book written by successful entrepreneurs who share their stories of success and the principles anyone can follow to achieve their dreams. But it is incredibly hard to find a book that gives you the full picture of how they did it from day one, along with all the nitty […]
Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership In the Pentagon
When I cracked open this lengthy tome on leadership lessons by former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, I wondered, “Am I really going to read this?” But I am not about reading and writing reviews only about what seems to fit in my wheelhouse, so I ventured forth, and boy did Carter (SecDef Ash, that […]