Adversity To Advantage

Author : Paul G. Stoltz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451687095
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adversity Advantage written by Paul G. Stoltz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world’s foremost blind athlete and a Harvard Business School lecturer comes an inspiring, seven-step program for converting both mundane and dramatic struggles into the kind of fuel that spur personal and professional greatness. Adversity is one of the most potent forces in life. It shapes your character, clarifies your priorities, and defines your path. It can also fuel your greatness. Each of us faces a rich assortment of adversities every day, ranging from minor hassles to major setbacks and challenges, even tragedies. Nobody knows this better than blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and adversity expert Dr. Paul Stolz. In this exciting new edition of The Adversity Advantage, this dream-team joined forces to offer incredible experiences and practical science to teach you how to turn life challenges into a powerful advantage. Weihenmayer, who is the only blind person to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits, shares his struggles on high mountains to turn adversity on its head and do the impossible. Coauthor Stoltz has spent decades decoding the human relationship with adversity and is the creator of the globally acclaimed Adversity Quotient. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Adversity Advantage offers lessons from real-life adventure, seemingly insurmountable challenges, and extensive research to help you achieve greatness. This unique book provides an exciting and insightful framework for surpassing obstacles and reaching higher goals. Its seven proven principles will help you harness the adversity in your life and turn it into agility, innovation, energy, and happiness: · Take it on! · Summon your strength · Engage your core · Pioneer possibilities · Pack light, pack right · Suffer well · Deliver greatness, every day Let The Adversity Advantage inspire you to overcome obstacles, no matter how daunting!

Author : Laura Huang
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0525540814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge written by Laura Huang and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Huang, an award-winning Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor. How do you find a competitive edge when the obstacles feel insurmountable? How do you get people to take you seriously when they're predisposed not to, and perhaps have already written you off? Laura Huang has come up against that problem many times--and so has anyone who's ever felt out of place or underestimated. Many of us sit back quietly, hoping that our hard work and effort will speak for itself. Or we try to force ourselves into the mold of who we think is "successful," stifling the creativity and charm that makes us unique and memorable. In Edge, Huang offers a different approach. She argues that success is rarely just about the quality of our ideas, credentials, and skills, or our effort. Instead, achieving success hinges on how well we shape others' perceptions--of our strengths, certainly, but also our flaws. It's about creating our own edge by confronting the factors that seem like shortcomings and turning them into assets that make others take notice. Huang draws from her groundbreaking research on entrepreneurial intuition, persuasion, and implicit decision-making, to impart her profound findings and share stories of previously-overlooked Olympians, assistants-turned-executives, and flailing companies that made momentous turnarounds. Through her deeply-researched framework, Huang shows how we can turn weaknesses into strengths and create an edge in any situation. She explains how an entrepreneur scored a massive investment despite initially being disparaged for his foreign accent, and how a first-time political candidate overcame voters' doubts about his physical disabilities. Edge shows that success is about knowing who you are and using that knowledge unapologetically and strategically. This book will teach you how to find your unique edge and keep it sharp.

Author : Jude Miller Burke
Publisher : Wisdom Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781960250285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adversity Advantage written by Jude Miller Burke and published by Wisdom Editions. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a unique five-year study of over 300 high-achieving men and women, The Adversity Advantage uncovers how common and impactful childhood problems are for both sexes. Real and inspiring stories, insights and techniques for overcoming childhood misfortune, workplace benefits to hard-earned survival skills, and pivotal career decisions are described. In The Adversity Advantage, Jude Miller Burke, a psychologist and executive coach, reveals pathways to: - Overcome low self-esteem, shame, and workplace triggers - Understand your values and find your authentic voice - Improve boundaries, communication, and conflict negotiation skills - Connect your childhood to improve your leadership style - Understand the impact of an adult toxic relationship on your career Regardless of your family background or childhood troubles, this is a book that should be read by all men and women who want to turn their childhood hardships into career and life success.

Author : Randy Ginsburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641378093
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adversity to Advantage written by Randy Ginsburg and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every seven minutes a child is bullied. One out of every three students in the United States have been targeted at school. Conventional wisdom says that bullying is exclusively detrimental to one's health, yet studies show that 47 percent of victims report a positive effect on their adult lives.In Adversity to Advantage, Randy Ginsburg strives to inspire those who were bullied with words of wisdom from a diverse group of highly successful entrepreneurs. These individuals have overcome the aggressors from their past and used their negative experiences as stepping stones for personal and entrepreneurial growth. In this book you will learn how: * Tom Ford beat bullying to launch one of the world's largest fashion houses and reinvent himself as an award-winning filmmaker. * Elon Musk's familiarity with pain helped him to start PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX .* Andrew Nikou used his "super-power" to help him defeat his bullies and go on to found OpenGate Capital, a multi-billion dollar global private equity firm. The best way to overcome the lingering effects of bullying is to harness the raw emotion from those memories and use it as fuel to motivate you. What better way to do this than through the power of creativity and entrepreneurship? Using his INVENT framework, Randy explores how to utilize the trauma of bullying to empower others to improve their lives and thrive as entrepreneurs.

Author : Napoleon Hill
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781454944409
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon Hill: Adversity and Advantage written by Napoleon Hill and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adell J. Harris
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781544502618
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refuse to Lose: 7 Steps to Make Adversity Your Advantage written by Adell J. Harris and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You cannot hide from negative experiences in life. But you can control how these moments affect you and turn them into a source of energy. In Refuse to Lose, Adell J. Harris offers a clear, step-by-step method for making adversity your advantage. Drawing on her own experiences with abuse and loss, as well as those of others who have overcome pain to achieve fulfillment, she shows you how to transform the impact of your past and create a future of unlimited potential through: - Acknowledging hardship you've faced- Accepting your pain- Rewriting your story- Modeling the right behaviors- Practicing empathy and gratitude- Finding cause and purpose- Sharing your story With this book, you will learn to embrace everything that happens to you and make the most of it. Pain won't drag you down. It will raise you up.

Author : James M. Kouzes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118911296
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Adversity Into Opportunity written by James M. Kouzes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders are no strangers to challenges; in recent years, businesses have experienced unprecedented layoffs, dismal sales, dwindling retirement accounts, and the bankruptcy of once-heralded institutions. While these uncertain times are difficult, they also provide the opportunity for great leadership. Over three decades of research, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, have asked thousands of leaders to describe their personal leadership best. Across the board, people say their greatest moments arise out of the most difficult periods of their careers. Turning Adversity Into Opportunity reveals how leaders at any level can transform difficult circumstances into opportunities for growth and success. Kouzes and Posner offer a clear set of six actionable strategies, showing how extraordinary leaders navigate through uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, transition, recovery, new beginnings, and other significant challenges. Exemplary leadership disrupts the status quo, and Kouzes and Posner show how to awaken and pursue new possibilities and opportunities, no matter what the circumstances. Wherever you find yourself in your organization or community, Turning Adversity Into Opportunity will help you embrace the chance within any challenge to make a real difference.

Author : Raven Turner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544749228
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pushed written by Raven Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes you feel like you're in a boxing match with life and adversity is trying to knock you out? You are constantly knocking on doors looking for opportunities, but no one is answering. You feel like there has to be more to life than just existing, but the lack of confidence and the fear of rejection is holding you back. This book is to help not just students, but anyone who reads it believe in themselves and understand that nothing worth having is going to come easy. However, if you push through adversity and embody certain traits you too can excel to higher heights. In this powerful book, Raven passionately dives into her journey sharing glimpses of rejection and failed pursuits and how for her confidence, perseverance, and belief in God kept her pushing through difficult challenges. Regardless of age, every student aspires to be great and successful in life. Through a high powered lens, this book captures the importance of how the power of being underestimated and counted out really works in your favor and how confidence and affirmations will help you rise above your fears. This book opens the door to practical techniques and principles that Raven embodied and since seen major improvements in her life. It also gives insight to inspiring stories of some of the world's most esteemed figures and how they went from being counted out to counted in.If every student reads this book thoughtfully and persistently practicing these principles, they too can experience an amazing change in their life.

Author : Barry C. Black
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414352271
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blessing of Adversity written by Barry C. Black and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people see trouble as something negative and seek to avoid it whenever possible. But what if it’s those troubles that actually lead to greater blessing and purpose? In The Blessing of Adversity, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and the 62nd chaplain of the U.S. Senate distills the wisdom gained from thirty years as a counselor, theologian, and psychologist. Barry Black offers a blueprint for removing the sting of life’s trials, showing us how to let God use our pain for his glory by blessing others—and how that can actually help heal our own pain. Drawing on Scripture and his own experiences as a counselor and chaplain to some of the most powerful people in the world, Black teaches us how to deal with seasons of God’s apparent silence, offers techniques for staying encouraged in the middle of life’s storms, and shows how to find advantages in adversity.

Author : Ralph De la Vega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595553119
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obstacles Welcome written by Ralph De la Vega and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph de la Vega, CEO, shares the lessons he learned, in business and in life, along the way from Cuba to corporate America. De la Vega arrived from Cuba in 1962, age 10, alone and scared. Separated from his parents by Cuban authorities just moments before they were to board a plane to Miami, de la Vega was baptized early--and abruptly--in adversity. But looking back, he would not have had it any other way. Here, he recounts his journey to CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. A frontliner in the converging worlds of technology and communications, de la Vega takes readers behind the scenes of the Internet revolution, shares insights from the nation's top technology companies, and chronicles the obstacles intrinsic to successfully merging the largest wireless operations in U.S. history. This book is also an innovation manifesto for those committed to bigger thinking and greater results both professionally and personally.--From publisher description.