Download or read book FitCEO Be the Leader of Your Life written by Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann and published by Page Two Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your work and your workouts shouldn't have to fight for your attention. We get it: you're busy. Whether you're acting as the CEO of a company, a family, or a career, it's easy to make excuses for why you don't have time to focus on your health. But getting fit doesn't have to be another chore added to your already packed schedule. In this smart, snappy book, former Citigroup executive and CEO consultant Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann teams up with personal trainer and life coach Lilian So to introduce simple, fun habits for total health and well-being. Short, down-to-earth stories from Macieira-Kaufmann's life and lauded career show you how staying healthy as an in-demand CEO is not only possible but can feel almost effortless-with the right strategies. So's simple and practical exercises will have you making changes to your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health right away. You'll discover: A simple exercise program that can be done anywhere How to manageably schedule workouts into your hectic life Immediate, easy actions you can take for better health Tips for staying healthy and balanced when you travel How to eat well and enjoyably at events and beyond The benefits of taking breaks-from five minutes between meetings to regular vacations Leadership insights that free up your time and boost productivity This isn't about layering on another demanding routine onto your already ambitious schedule. Instead, it's about learning how to manageably introduce simple, easy, fun habits for total fitness that will not only transform your body, but also your life. It's about being the boss of the most important job you have-the boss of you.

Download or read book FitCEO written by Maciera-Kaufmann Rebecca (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Be Your Own Leader written by Paul Scahig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to control your own life? The idea of leading your own life might seem like a simple concept, but it actually is much more complicated than you might believe. For many, simply the idea of leading your own life might sound like a large concept, and for many, it could seem impossible. But, it doesn't have to be. Nor does it have to be a large-scale issue. In fact, you can start living your own life today, being the leader you want to be, and this book will tell you how. In this book you'll learn the following: -How to be a leader. -Why it's important to be the leader of your own life. -How to overcome negativity and be the best person you can be. -The importance of setting goals for your future, and for your current state of life. Being a leader is a hard concept to grasp, but by the end of this book, you'll know how to jumpstart your life onto a path of leadership. What are you waiting for? If you are still reading this you are obviously motivated to get all the benefits this book has to offer. Stop thinking and take ACTION. Buy It Now

Download or read book Great Leaders Grow written by Ken Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the bestselling authors of The Secret (over 350,000 copies sold): the legendary Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller, a top executive at one of the most successful restaurant chains in the country. Identifies the specific ways leaders must grow - on the job and off - to remain inspiring and effective. Written for both established leaders looking to ensure their continued effectiveness and those who aspire to leadership. Successful leaders don't rest on their laurels. Leadership must be a living process, not a title on a business card, and life means growth. As Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller write in the introduction, ''the path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal growth. Our capacity to grow determines our capacity to lead. It's really that simple.'' Great Leaders Grow shows leaders and aspiring leaders precisely which areas to focus on so they can remain effective throughout their lives. As the book opens, Debbie Brewster, an accomplished leader herself, becomes a mentor to Blake, her late mentor's son, as he begins his career. Debbie tells Blake, ''How well you and I serve will be determined by the decision to grow or not. Will you be a leader who is always ready to face the next challenge? Or will you be a leader who tries to apply yesterday's solutions to today's problems? The latter will ultimately fail. The difference: the decision to grow. And not a short-term decision but a decision to grow throughout your career and throughout your life. This single decision is a game changer for leaders.'' Over the next several weeks Debbie reveals what this means in practical terms. She and Blake explore four ways that leaders must continue to grow, both on the job and off, because who you are as a leader is inextricably connected to who you are as a person. Whether you're a CEO or an entry-level employee, you'll be inspired to reflect on your own life and to design your own unique long-term growth plan, leading to not only continuing professional success but personal fulfillment as well.

Download or read book Leadership A Life Sport written by Jacob Werksman and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership A Life Sport is a no-nonsense guide on the characteristics and fundamentals that are required to win as an individual and as a team. Before you can be an asset on a team, you must first be a great individual leader. Once you are performing at your maximum potential, you can then become a great teammate. High-performing teams require high-performing individuals. This playbook supplies you with the tools to achieve greatness. Author Jacob Werksman combines his military, education, and private sector experience to allow you and your team to unlock your full potential. Have you ever wondered what makes a leader great? What is it about that person that makes you want to constantly be around them, listen to them, and gain their perspectives on a decision you are trying to make? The leaders where it seems to come to them, naturally. Well, those leaders do almost everything discussed in this book. This book is going to break down those aspects in to simple, yet powerful stories with a takeaway you can use immediately. We are all leaders, whether it is amongst our families, in the work environment, or within our communities. Leadership is a life sport and you can always improve. Key Takeaways: 1)Tools to be a great "me" before you become a great "we." 2)How to maximize your individual potential and team's potential. 3)How to WIN at life and at leadership.

Download or read book Truth about Being a Leader The paperback written by Karen Otazo and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Truth About Being a Leader "If you ever met Dr. Otazo, you certainly would read her new Truth book. She is as she writes--engaging, pithy, memorable. Take 'Truth 33: Questions Unite; Answers Divide.' Now ain't that the truth. And there are 51 other bon mots just like it. Open the book. Read a truth. You will smile, reflect, and be a better leader for it." -- Paul McLoughlin, The Krow Show with Paul McLoughlin, aka 'the work_wonk, ' Live Online Radio, Wednesdays, 1 pm Eastern, .VoiceAmericaBusiness.com "This is a sharply written book with smart insights into the business world. Dr. Otazo is blunt, honest, and concise--exactly the advice a real leader needs." -- Rudy Giuliani "The Truth About Being a Leader is a book that offers practical advice about the very difficult and elusive art of leadership. Dr. Otazo's book offers real lessons for anyone who is tasked to lead people!" -- Marc Morial, CEO, National Urban League "This book takes you on a tour 'behind closed doors' of the landscape of leadership. Just as great military leaders have to know the ground where a future battle will take place, you as an aspiring leader will need to know about the terrain that is covered in this book. And the scope of the landscape here is impressive. It is not just the expected areas such as vision, communication, and team work, but also the important and often undiscussable matters such as how to select an assistant, the role of BS, and the care and use of your body as a leadership act. You can either hire Dr. Otazo as an executive coach to impart her years of wisdom from working with great leaders--or you can read this compelling book and get the secrets here." -- Douglas T. (Tim) Hall Professor of Organizational Behavior, Director, Executive Development Roundtable, Boston University School of Management "Dr. Otazo has written a must-have book for leaders and would-be leaders! This gem of a book contains concise, easy-to-navigate chapters and useful tips. Best of all, she has included additional reading as reference for those who want more. The book explains the fundamental elements of leadership in a direct manner. If you are a leader or see yourself as one, this book offers practical and honest ways to succeed. Otazo has created a tool that can be referenced again and again." -- Ellen Susman, Producer/Host of PBS television show for women Balancing Your Life with Ellen Susman, www.balancingyourlifeonline.com "Dr. Otazo tops Jack Welch's book, On Winning, with both her insight and depth. Amazing...This book is Otazo's Master Class on leadership." -- Regina Gill, Head of Advertising Sales Germany/Austria, Financial Times Europe "I am so impressed with this book. I especially like the point that there is no BS...it is straight to the point, concise, clear, and easy to read. My favorite chapter is 'A Leader Must Always Be On.' I have lived with this premise 24 hours a day for 45 years. I like the bathtub and fertilizer ideas!" -- Walter Johnson, Chairman, Amegy Bank of Texas "In this marvelous book, Dr. Otazo shares her profound wisdom from decades as one of the most respected coaches in the corporate world. Who better to help every aspiring leader become the very best they can be? Practical yet thought provoking, The Truth About Being a Leader creates a holistic way of looking at the roles of the leader. An added bonus is the further reading section--which in 30 pages is a wonderful summary of where the leader can go to learn more." -- Lynda Gratton Professor of Management Practice, London Business School, AIM Fellow "Leading is about choices. We get them right or make mistakes. What informs our decisions are our frameworks and experiences. Dr. Otazo gives us a rich mix of both. She is clear and crisp, practical and theoretical. Help yourself make your choices. Read and study this book to find a tool kit for the 'nuts and bolts' of leading. She delivers a treasure chest of perspectives and insights for all leaders. So whether for the 'mechanic' or the 'architect' leader, or whether you're an advanced, learning, remediating, or novice leader, this book's for you and for all of us who lead." -- John D. Hofmeister, President and U.S. Country Chair, Shell Oil Company "The simple truth is that everyone who is, or aspires to be, in a leadership position should keep this book close to hand at all times. An excellent distillation of the essential elements of leadership, this is a practical resource tool that speaks with the voice of a trusted friend and advisor. Clear and concise, this book has something useful to say on just about every facet of leadership. Dr Otazo, in print as in person, is always wise and always pertinent." -- Rosemarie Wallace, Regional Managing Director, Reader's Digest Asia "I very much enjoyed reading The Truth about Being a Leader, which accurately reflects so many of the situations I have encountered in 40 years of business life." -- Maarten van den Bergh, Chairman Lloyds TSB Group plc "From her own vast experience as a coach and leader herself, Dr. Otazo has written a book that really does tell the truth about what it takes to be a leader. 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Her suggestions on how to frame and 'deal' provide a powerful jumpstart for those prepared to listen." [md] Chris O'Donohue, Vice President PepsiCo International What really works: how to become a great leader, starting today When it comes to effective leadership, everyone has an opinion. But you don't need opinions: you need proven, real-world solutions, based on facts and evidence. That's what The Truth About Being a Leader delivers: high-power leadership techniques you can use every day, whether you lead one person or 100,000. Dr. Karen Otazo has spent more than 20 years coaching executives in virtually every type of organization. She's worked personally with more than 2,000 individuals, from interns to CEOs. Now, drawing on hundreds of secret leadership feedback reports, she reveals what actually works-and doesn't work- when it comes to being a great leader. 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Download or read book The Big Five for Life Paperback written by John Strelecky and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The CEO Test written by Adam Bryant and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Leadership category Are you ready to lead? Will you pass the test? Despite all the effort through the years to understand what it takes to be an effective leader, the challenges of leadership remain enormously difficult and elusive; even today, most CEOs don't last five years in the job. The demands to deliver at a consistently high level can be unforgiving. The loneliness. The weight of responsibility. The relentless second-guessing and criticism. The pressure to build all-star teams. The 24/7 schedule that requires superhuman stamina. The tough decisions that often leave no one happy. The expectation to always have the right answer when it can be hard just to know the right question. These challenges are brought into their highest and sharpest relief in the corner office, but they are hardly unique to chief executives. All leaders face their own version of these tests, and the authors draw on the distilled wisdom, stories, and lessons from hundreds of chief executives to show how every aspiring leader can master these challenges and lead like a CEO. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The CEO Test is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniquely qualified to tell the stories. Adam Bryant has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 600 CEOs. Kevin Sharer spent more than two decades as president and then CEO of Amgen, where he led its expansion from $1 billion in annual revenues to nearly $16 billion. He has served on many boards and is a sought-after mentor for CEOs of global companies. Leadership is getting harder as the speed of disruption across all industries accelerates. The CEO Test will better prepare you to succeed, whether you're a CEO or just setting out to become one.

Download or read book Work Stronger written by Pete Leibman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As author and high performance coach Pete Leibman demonstrates in this eye-opening book, stronger hours (not longer hours) are the key to feeling and performing your best over the long term. Work Stronger provides a step-by-step, science-based approach for increasing your energy, decreasing your stress, and taking your performance to a higher level. This book also features practical tips and powerful insights from private interviews that Leibman conducted with more than twenty-five prominent leaders. The group includes Chip Bergh, the president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, and Janine Allis, an investor on Shark Tank. You’ll learn how to form stronger habits in four key areas (nutrition, exercise, focus, and renewal) that are highly correlated with greater health, well-being, and performance. You can also get a free assessment of your current habits, and you can download a free copy of The Work Stronger Workbook at WorkStronger.com.

Download or read book Business Model Shifts written by Patrick van der Pijl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shift your business model and transform your organization in the face of disruption Business Model Shifts is co-authored by Patrick van Der Pijl, producer of the global bestseller Business Model Generation, and offers a groundbreaking look at the challenging times in which we live, and the real-world solutions needed to conquer the obstacles organizations must now face. Business Model Shifts is a visually stunning guide that examines six fundamental disruptions happening now and spotlights the opportunities that they present: The Services Shift: the move from products to services The Stakeholder Shift: the move from an exclusive shareholder orientation to creating value for all stakeholders, including employees and society The Digital Shift: the move from traditional business operations to 24/7 connection to customers and their needs The Platform Shift: the move from trying to serve everyone, to connecting people who can exchange value on a proprietary platform The Exponential Shift: the move from seeking incremental growth to an exponential mindset that seeks 10x growth The Circular Shift: the move from take-make-dispose towards restorative, regenerative, and circular value creation Filled with case studies, stories, and in-depth analysis based on the work of hundreds of the world’s largest and most intriguing organizations, Business Model Shifts details how these organizations created their own business model shifts in order to create more customer value, and ultimately, a stronger, more competitive business. Whether you’re looking for ways to redesign your business due to the latest needs of the marketplace, launching a new product or service, or simply creating more lasting value for your customers, Business Model Shifts is the essential book that will change the way you think about your business and its future.

Download or read book High Growth Handbook written by Elad Gil and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Download or read book Disciplined Growth Strategies written by Peter S. Cohan and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion. This book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth. Drawing insights from case studies of successful and unsuccessful companies, strategy teacher and venture capitalist Peter Cohan models his systematic approach to brainstorming, evaluating, and implementing growth strategies across five dimensions: Customers, Geography, Products, Capabilities, Culture. He examines each of these five growth dimensions in turn, selecting and organizing his cases to compare the growth strategies deployed successfully and unsuccessfully by large and small companies along the given dimension. In each of his five dimensional chapters, the author derives from his case analyses the key principles and processes for creating and achieving faster growth. Professor Cohan draws on a network of hundreds of founders, CEOs, and investors developed through his decades of consulting, authorship of 11 books, and over five years as a Forbes columnist. He shows through many compelling stories how leaders craft effective growth strategies. Business leaders will learn the following lessons from this book: Achieving rapid but sustainable growth is a business leader’s most important responsibility – and leaders must approach this challenge with a mixture of vision, intellectual humility, and a willingness to experiment and learn from failure. The growth challenges facing companies that are currently growing quickly differ from the ones that stagnating or shrinking companies must overcome. Companies can achieve growth along one or more of the dimensions simultaneously – and they often expand geographically to customers in the same segments. Useful insights can emerge from comparing case studies of successful and unsuccessful companies pursuing similar growth strategies. Companies should select a growth strategy based on three factors: the attractiveness of the growth opportunity, the company’s capabilities to provide superior value to customers in the selected market, and the expected return on investment in the growth vector. Companies should select a growth strategy that best fits their capabilities and culture and they must enhance both to adapt to new growth opportunities. Who This Book Is For The people in companies who are responsible for growth: chief executive officers, chief marketing officers, chief product officers, heads of business development, product managers, sales people, and human resources managers

Download or read book Sparked written by Jonathan Fields and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype®," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you’re doing what you’re here to do. Work that motivates you, fills you with purpose and, fully-expressed in a healthy way, becomes a main-line to meaning, flow, performance, and joy. Put another way, work that “sparks” you. Sparked draws upon years of research, experimentation, more than 25-million data-points generated by over half-a-million people, and hundreds of deep-dive conversations with luminaries from science to art to industry and wellbeing. Award-winning author, serial wellness-industry founder, and host of the top-ranked Good Life Project®, Jonathan Fields, and his team at Spark Endeavors, developed the Sparketype imprints and methodology that is the basis of this book. In this book, Fields and his team will help you: Discover what sparks you, what drains you, where you stumble and come alive, so you can reclaim a sense of direction, control, and purpose; Understand the “real” reasons certain experiences, jobs, and roles leave you empty and know how to make things better, without having to endure big disruptive changes; Learn from real-world, relatable stories, case-studies, and data-driven insights; Identify the action steps to begin immediately transforming the way you work and live. Sparked takes you deep into the world of the Sparketypes, revealing an entirely new depth of insights about what makes you come alive in work life, along with what empties you out and trips you up, so you can avoid those life-drains. You’ll discover tons of case studies, stories, and real-world applications, creating a comprehensive guide to help you discover what you are meant to do and how to get started.

Download or read book Becoming Ageless written by Strauss Zelnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four secrets to looking and feeling younger than ever. Becoming Ageless presents a three-month, detailed diet and exercise plan to create a leaner, more muscular and happier you. Developed by business mogul and fitness buff Strauss Zelnick--founder of the private equity firm Zelnick Media Capital and president and CEO of Take-Two Interactive, the company behind blockbuster video games such as Grand Theft Auto and NBA2K-- the strategies contained in Becoming Ageless are the same tactics that allowed Zelnick to evolve from a skinny, out-of-shape business executive (a workaholic wunderkind who headed the film studio 20th Century Fox in his early 30s) to one of the world's fittest and most physically active executives who reached his best-ever shape in his late 50s! "If you believe my fitness buddies," Zelnick writes, "I have a body that's aging in reverse...And Becoming Ageless is filled with the amazing tips and unique principles you'd find if you trained with me."

Download or read book The EntreSpirit written by Matt Law and published by Motuspress. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some call them creative geniuses. Others label them workaholics. Either way, if you're going to keep up with them, you'd better be moving quickly. These driven individuals are the movers and shakers building the world around us. Somehow, they're able to capitalize on opportunities before others even notice them. Fueled by endless passion and ideas, they have unlimited energy to get things done. While we might not understand them, we can't help but notice that they have something special inside. That's the EntreSpirit. In this adventure, you'll meet Luke Voightmann, a once-successful entrepreneur. In an instant, a tragic accident has turned his world upside down, killing his best friend and causing him to lose almost everything. Facing the bloody aftermath of a failed business, Luke's family hangs on by a thread, desperately hoping for change. Rising from the ashes comes a rare chance to compete in the ultimate contest of entrepreneurs. To win, he'll have to face his own demons and take an honest look at his motives. Join Luke on his journey as he rediscovers himself through the lens of the EntreSpirit.

Download or read book Spartan Up written by Joe De Sena and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Spartan Races (races meant to challenge, to push, to intimidate, to test) from one of the "founding few" and creators, Joe De Sena.

Download or read book Quick and Nimble written by Adam Bryant and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up workplace, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared in his regular "Corner Office" feature in The New York Times, Bryant has identified the biggest drivers of corporate culture, bringing them to life with real-world examples that reflect this hard-earned wisdom. These men and women—whose ranks include Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Angie Hicks of Angie's List, Steve Case of Revolution (and formerly AOL), and Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania—offer useful insights and strategies for creating a corporate culture of innovation and building a high-performing organization that unleashes the passion and energy of its employees. As the world shifts to more of a knowledge economy, the winners will be companies that can attract and retain the best and brightest employees by creating an environment where they can grow, contribute, and feel rewarded. Through the wisdom of these leading chief executives, Quick and Nimble offers a keen understanding of leadership, recruiting, and the forces that shape corporate culture and a clear road map to bring success and energy to any organization.