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Leadership is never easy. Almost all leaders deal with both triumph and tragedy, oftentimes in equal measure. The fact of the matter is that leadership insists on constant rejection of the status quo. True leaders demand continuous reflection and improvement of those around them, and even more importantly, of themselves. True leaders are Changemakers.

Why do some people advance to the leading edge of performance, while others with similar experience and ability do not? In Leap: Master Your Superpowers, Soar to the Leading Edge, leadership expert and CEO Marta Wilson teaches what she and her team have learned through a career of applied research - that individuals with certain types of mastery become superstars, and those who don’t tend to stall out without achieving their full potential.

What's your current culture costing you. Learn how to create and cultivate a championship culture in your business. It will increase your bottom line by attracting and retaining better people, better clients, and reducing rework. Practical tips and methods will help you maximize productivity, performance, and profit by increasing passion throughout your organization.

As a child, Steve Palmer never belonged - not in school, not in his troubled home, not with friends. After his father and grandfather passed away, he was sent to a series of rehabs and halfway houses before ending up on the streets. Drugs and alcohol soon became a way of life. Eventually, he would go on to a career running some of the country’s most celebrated and innovative fine dining establishments. But first, he had to learn how to be sober in an industry awash with alcohol and drugs.

Whether you’re a CEO, entrepreneur, businessperson, athlete, teacher, spouse, stay-at-home parent, community leader, or even if you’re still figuring out who you want to be, you’ll walk away from this audiobook feeling confident and empowered, ready to hack your life.

We all face countless decisions throughout our careers. The specific circumstances that call us to lead will be different, but the core dilemmas and ethical challenges are very similar. Faced with these challenges, each of us must decide if we will follow our ego-centered inclinations or lead for the good of everyone whose lives we touch? Will we endanger or impair those around us to satisfy our own self-interest, or will we lead in a manner that is true to our values?

Learn to harness an unconventional tool for leadership success. As the president and chief executive officer of Kindred Healthcare LLC, Ben Breier has witnessed massive disruptions to the healthcare industry. Gaining an early understanding of how to survive disruptions on the baseball field proved to be invaluable when he entered this challenging field. Using techniques honed over the course of his leadership career, Ben has been able to not only survive disruptions but thrive using intentional disruption as a business strategy.

Author Harry Nelson has been on the front lines of behavioral health and medical advocacy for two decades. He is the leading healthcare legal expert in the country addressing the worsening problems in how we treat pain and addiction. His insights have earned the attention of lead policymakers and regulators at every federal agency touching the opioid crisis. He has been one of the few voices in the room with direct experience of where we are going wrong.

Creating solutions to solve problems can often prove very difficult to accomplish, even for seasoned solution designers. Complex organizational problems have several stakeholders, endless variables, and a myriad of possible solutions. It's hard enough to figure out where to start, and even harder to realize what the perfect, mutually-beneficial solution is.

It’s hard enough trying to run a business, support your family, and take care of yourself. The hardest part is balancing all three. But what if you could combine those three areas of your life to make each one stronger? In Three Cords Approach, Rocco Carriero, MBA, CRPC©, APMA, shows that just like a strong cord made of three smaller, braided cords, your life is strongest when all three aspects of it - family, business, and self - are interwoven.

Andy Bailey knows entrepreneurs. Now the founder of Petra Coach, he started his career as an entrepreneur, founding NationLink Wireless while still in college. After burning the candle at both ends for years, however, Andy realized that he was working "for" his job, not "on" his business. He began searching for ways to achieve his ultimate entrepreneurial dream and began implementing a specific methodology based on the "Rockefeller Habits".

Culture guru and best-selling author, Chris McGoff, allows you to journey along with Carolyn, a composite character based on real-life people, to learn and see how it’s up to everyone to work through the struggles and find a way to redefine company culture and achieve peak performance. By the end of Carolyn’s story, you will be equipped to break down that default culture and build a culture of peak performance.

In Interrupted Entrepreneurship, multigenerational family business member Raméz A. Baassiri seeks answers to an array of hurdles that every family business has faced and could face, not only from the perspective of his own family business but also from the viewpoint of dozens of family businesses that have confronted interruptions and not only weathered the storms, but thrived. 

Dr. Rob Douk has made it his life mission to make a difference - and to help others do the same. As a therapist turned socialpreneur, Douk has paved the way for companies with a strong social purpose to grow their business as they improve the world. The Fearless Socialpreneur outlines a series of five foundations and five principles that generate success for "socialpreneurs", those who launch innovative enterprises that achieve financial returns and social benefits. It is Douk's belief that good people working together can overcome any challenge to make a profound difference. 

Asia’s growing economic clout is starting to reshape global business rules that have been molded by Western multinationals for many decades. The region’s rising star, Vietnam, is now flexing its economic muscles, and Competing with Giants tells the story of its transformation from war ruin to dynamic nation through the experiences of Tân Hiệp Phát (THP), the drinks company founded by Phương Uyên Trần’s family. Told through the eyes of the daughter who watched her parents overcome numerous obstacles to achieve success, the book offers a primer for others to follow suit.

In March of 2020, most of the world—along with our politicians—panicked. When presented with an unfamiliar threat in the form of the novel coronavirus, life as we knew it shut down. Without having a plan, we responded in a panic, with no understanding of the true risk to our health or our economy. Our collective reaction to the virus points to one crucial factor: We as a society do not question what we are told—potentially to our own detriment. Author and iconoclast Tony Zorc outlines the insights of iconoclasm and how to not only survive but thrive in the post-pandemic economy.

Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless. Join Brendan P. Keegan, an award-winning 6-time President and CEO, who built a system to overpower his own fear, uncertainty, and doubt and achieved astronomical success across multiple industries, as he speaks with leaders from all walks of life. Listen in as they share their secrets to what made them successful and fearless. If you want to learn to live and lead fearlessly this is the podcast for you, Fearless Leadership with Brendan P. Keegan, a production of Forbes Books.

In these turbulent times, companies can be forced to pivot on a dime to meet new market challenges. But how do you know which move to make? How do you hit on the solution to what’s threatening your bottom line? Ali Davachi draws from his decades of experience turning around companies to detail his innovative and proven system to creating positive change. In addition, Davachi walks the listener through common obstacles that hold businesses back from effectively confronting new challenges—and shows them how to create meaningful transformation that’s both powerful and profitable.

Discover how the nation’s largest senior living operator answered the call posed by the greatest public health crisis in 100 years with courage and resilience. CEO Cindy Baier shares a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at how Brookdale Senior Living navigated the COVID-19 pandemic as she stood at the helm of a company with $3.5 billion of revenue in 2020. Woven together with her own personal accounts, Cindy highlights the broad symphony of voices and diverse cast of players who proved pivotal in helping save lives.

Lots of people dabble in real estate. Some own a few rental units; some flip one or two houses a year; others slowly build a real estate portfolio so that by the time they retire, they own a dozen properties. And then there are those real estate “unicorns” who somehow manage to acquire 30 or 40 properties after only three years in the game—and who go on to build legacy-level wealth. What’s their secret? What do they do differently? It’s all in their mindset.