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Shellye Archambeau

Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley’s first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.

Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success. Here, she shares the practical strategies, tools, and approaches readers can employ right now, including concrete steps to most effectively:

  • Dismantle impostor syndrome
  • Capitalize on the power of planning
  • Take risks
  • Developing financial literacy
  • Build your network
  • Establish your reputation
  • Take charge of your career
  • Integrate work, marriage, parenthood, and self-care

Each chapter lays out key takeaways and acMons to increase the odds of achieving your personal and professional goals. With relatable personal stories that ground her advice in the real world and a foreword by leading venture capitalist and New York Times bestselling author Ben Horowitz, Unapologetically Ambitious invites readers to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect them to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give themselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions. Shellye Archambeau will show you how.

Steve Gilliland

In ENJOY THE RIDE, author Steve Gilliland shares from his heart HOW TO EXPERIENCE THE TRUE JOY OF LIFE. A popular national speaker, Steve has changed the lives of thousands who have heard him. Translated to book form, his philosophy centers on the simple premise that true success is not a thing you acquire or achieve. Rather, it is a journey you take your whole life long. Beginning with the compelling challenge to “Check Your Passion,” Steve ignites people’s ability to choose what they do, why they do it, and who they do it with. In his refreshingly straightforward style, Steve Gilliland shares unique insights into what it means to be successful. He enables readers to identify their dreams and puts genuine success within their reach. Add his humor and brilliant advantage of mixing words with wisdom, and Steve brings forth a book that truly motivates a reader to make changes and believe in the power of positive thinking. Success is not limited to those with financial resources or special talents. It is available to anyone willing to learn a few practical principles and then follow through with them day to day. All who read this book will be glad they got their hands on it.

Steve Gilliland

In MAKING A DIFFERENCE, author Steve Gilliland brilliantly lays out three manageable means that make it possible for every person to unlock their potential and exert profound influence. Filled with inspirational anecdotes, laugh-out-loud humor and thought-provoking ideas, this book is an eye-opening journey that when put into practice, will make a considerable impact in your professional and personal life. As a master storyteller, Steve expounds on the essentials towards Making a Difference – Purpose, Passion and Pride. Where you live, the money you possess, the money you stand to inherit, your marriage, the car you drive and the friends you appear to have are outward signs of success and not necessarily indicators of inner fulfillment. The amount we earn or the success we achieve produces emptiness unless it is in line with a purpose beyond ourselves. This book demonstrates that you don’t need a master’s degree or a doctorate to make the world a better place. MAKING A DIFFERENCE confirms that purpose is the essential ingredient to motivation and the ultimate path to making a difference; passion is what allows us to overcome challenges and disregard people who try to extend their misfortunes and negative outlook to you; and pride is about you and your expectations. It is about realizing the importance of your role in life and taking pride in everything you do! This book is a profound idea that will impact your life.

Steve Gilliland

HIDE YOUR GOAT is for every person who has ever said, “Why me?” It is for every person who feels like everywhere you turn, you meet problems, obstacles, difficulties – large ones, small ones, all sizes. Filled with thought-provoking questions, ideas and solutions, this book will help you stay positive while dealing with life’s disappointments and the negativity that encompasses our society. Whereas, you can’t change the people and circumstances that try to get your goat, HIDE YOUR GOAT will help you stay positive when negativity surrounds you. The book focuses on six core principles: The Courage to Recognize Who You Are, The Strength to Accept Where You Have Been, The Wisdom to Discern Where You Are Heading, The Knowledge to Acquire What It Takes to Get There, The Awareness to Exclude Who Is Stopping You, The Power to Change What Holds You Back. HIDE YOUR GOAT makes you aware of how your daily life intersects with a diverse group of people from different backgrounds, opinions and personalities. This book will make you think about yourself and dive deep below the surface to uncover feelings, thoughts and emotions that expose your goat. Regardless of its origin, the expression “gets my goat” is something that resonates with all of us. The fast-paced and stress-filled schedules we maintain open the gate to allow people and circumstances to get our goat. It’s time to discover, herd, teach, feed, gate, exercise and, in the end, HIDE YOUR GOAT!

Steve Gilliland

DETOUR contains remarkable insight on how to deal with change and provides solutions to reduce stress, eliminate fear and increase performance. Hall of Fame Speaker and best-selling author Steve Gilliland, who showed us how to Enjoy The Ride, now reveals how to handle change and navigate life’s turns when something sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. This book will help you develop…

THE MINDSET OF RECOGNITION
How to Identify Change Is Coming Before It Arrives

THE MINDSET OF REACTION
How to Manage Your Stress When Change Occurs

THE MINDSET OF REALITY
How to Discover the Three Sides to the Story

THE MINDSET OF RESOURCEFULNESS
How to Dismiss Self-Imposed Limitations

THE MINDSET OF RECEPTIVENESS
How to Be Open to All Possibilities

THE MINDSET OF RESOLUTION
How to Stay Committed During Times of Change

Dan Veitkus

Are you tired of “Smart Talk” that leads nowhere?

Can you tolerate one more expert spouting from a stage or anchor desk spinning real issues so elaborately that your head hurts?

Do you really want to endure another meeting, conversation or planning session that wastes your time and leads to no conclusion?

The truth is this: We are living in the midst of a “Smart Talk” epidemic and this book will point the way to a universal cure. Get ready to spot the traps and shed the “Smart Talk” trash so you can effectively rekindle the Straight Talk sense you were born to practice.

Straight Talk Your Way to Success will remind you how to achieve success, happiness and fulfillment by simplifying your life with a commitment to Straight Talk.

You’ll learn a set of Straight Talk Principles that will give your conversations instant credibility by providing clarity and precision regarding your intentions, your expectations and your desired outcomes.

It’s brief. It’s bright. It’s your guide to accelerate success.

Peter Weedfald

Green Reign Leadership offers business executives as well as sales and marketing managers lessons, principals and rules to muscle up their personal leadership foundation. The book portrays and docents precise, advantaged leadership as the dominant force to competitive success. The short chapters are designed as a sharing and training insights manual for all direct reports to strengthen leadership resolve, to develop smart, effective internal and external styles of highly effective customer and market engagements. It is all about leadership in the language of competitive advantage; urbane leadership lessons and principals designed to fortify and energize you, your team, your business results.

Jeffrey Hayzlett

Global business celebrity and prime-time Bloomberg Television host, Jeffrey W. Hayzlett empowers business leaders to tie their visions to actions, advancing themselves past competitors and closer to their business dream. Drawing upon his own business back stories including his time as CMO of Kodak and sharing examples from the many leaders featured on “The C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett,” Hayzlett imparts ten core lessons that dare readers to own who they are as a leader and/or company, define where they want to go, and fearlessly do what it takes to get there—caring less about conventional wisdom, re-framing limitations, and steamrolling obstacles as they go.

Mitchell Rigie & Keith Harmeyer

“If the creators of brainstorming were alive today, they would be astounded at how far the concept has evolved. Rigie and Harmeyer have created the ultimate idea-creating machine. It’s going to be the textbook for the concept for decades to come.”
~ Al Ries, bestselling author of Positioning and Marketing Warfare

In today’s fast-paced, innovation-driven economy, chaos and disruptive change are the new “business as usual.” Organizations, business owners, entrepreneurs, and even individuals have no choice but to reinvent themselves and their product or service offerings on an ongoing basis.

They must innovate–or risk slipping into irrelevance.

Innovation is fueled by a constant stream of new ideas; and group brainstorming is the most widely utilized process for generating that fresh, original thinking. However, brainstorming as typically practiced is a fundamentally flawed process–loosely structured, poorly facilitated, lacking in effective techniques–and it often produces too few, truly innovative ideas.

It’s no wonder. Over 90% of those leading brainstorming sessions, in any industry, have had no formal training in how to do so effectively.

SmartStorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas is one of the most comprehensive how-to manuals and idea generation toolkits ever published on the subject of brainstorming. It can help anyone learn how to consistently plan and lead highly effective brainstorms, and unleash the creative problem-solving genius of any group!

Readers are introduced to a totally new approach to group ideation. Not just another creative-thinking technique, SmartStorming is a powerful brainstorming system, combining the essential structure, leadership skills, tools, and techniques necessary for success.

Richard Tyler

Everyone searches for success. While our ideas of success differ, a typical entrepreneur will define success in terms of accomplishing worthy goals—often accompanied by an improvement in their financial and social position. It is recognized in the business community that success is a direct result of passionate commitment, organized planning, constructive action and perseverance. However, by definition, the word BOOM suggests the creation of something BIG, immediate and successful! In addition, BOOM may also mean “increase” in economic terms, another typical measure of success. So what are your plans?

If you wish to mimic the actions that successful people like the CelebrityExperts® in this book take to make progress towards their goals, and also take advantage of their experiences, here is a good opportunity to understand their mindset – which often covers the “what to do” as well as the “what not to do.”
As you know, at times the latter is more important than the former. If you wish to create something BIG, immediate and successful, as well as to enjoy the “increase” you can create, you will find many pointers in this book. These CelebrityExperts® share their experiences and teachings thoughtfully. They can guide you “to the finish line” much faster than if you have to start your journey to success on your own.

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
~ John F. Kennedy