Leadership Biography

The Chronicles is a collection of articles, private writings, and journals that developed The Confidence Factor for Women in Leadership movement. All of the journals are impactful and value based to help women in leadership own their places in leadership. It is time to increase the value of women in leadership globally, and it starts with confidence. When women feel valued, they lead with confidence.

Journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour—whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless, recovering addicts, sex workers, dealers, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job.

Can a small business really compete with the biggest business giants? The typical argument is that they wouldn’t have the budget, skills, or experience. But Catching Giants demonstrates that this simply isn’t true, showing how even in the toughest of circumstances and competitive environments, it is possible for the small player to win big.

1898 in der norditalienischen Stadt Modena geboren, lebte Enzo Ferrari seinen Traum und gründete den berühmtesten Sportwagenhersteller der Welt. Dieses Buch analysiert, wie er seine Ziele mit als modern geltenden Konzepten erreicht hat oder wo Führungstheorien, emotionale Intelligenz, Wirtschaftsethik, Kundenorientierung und Nachhaltigkeit bereits zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts Leitprinzipien der Wirtschaft waren.

Topgun on Wall Street chronicles one man’s extraordinary journey from the cornfields of Ohio, to the cockpit of an F-14, to the boardrooms on Wall Street. Lieutenant Commander Jeffery Lay and number-one New York Times best-selling author Patrick Robinson bring a provocative, ground-breaking voice to the business landscape with a revolutionary answer for stabilizing corporate America: business - the military way.

Serve 2 Win, the first in a series of business guidebooks by entrepreneur coach and serial business owner, Mitch Durfee, offers an unusual approach to launching a small business. The single most successful basis for any entrepreneurial endeavor is that of being of service. Not only does a service-to-others approach attract customers and clients, it rewards business practitioners with an unshakeable sense of purpose, undergirded by the inherent happiness of using their expertise to assist others in need of help.

Steve Jobs. The co-founder of Apple. Macintosh computers, iMacs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, iTunes. What an amazing legacy. What an amazing leader. Steve Jobs definitely put a ding in his universe. Don't you want to put a ding in your universe? In Put a Ding in Your Universe, I will walk you through Steve Jobs's "Top 10 Rules for Success". This is not another retelling of the life story of Steve Jobs. This book is a compilation of the wisdom of one of the most successful and innovative business leaders of our generation.

In Sport Is Life with the Volume Turned Up, Joan Cronan offers a refreshing and innovative perspective on strengthening performance and achieving success in both the business world and everyday life.

There is only one CEO in recent times who has faced ¿ and succeeded at ¿ the extraordinary challenges of leading three major companies ¿ Gillette, Nabisco, and Kraft ¿ into prosperous futures by doing what matters on the fundamentals. That CEO is Jim Kilts. In this vivid first-person account he reveals his system for success that is both cutting-edge and back-to-basics.

Imagine Bill Gates and Giorgio Armani started a business, then hired PT Barnum to promote it and Larry David to tell the story. The result is this book. Since starting SCOTTeVEST in 2000 - my clothing business built around tech-enabled pockets - I've been featured in thousands of major press pieces, made millions of dollars, and had the most memorable appearance of the entire ABC Shark Tank show. I started out as an unhappy lawyer, and I reinvented myself by pursuing my passions and mastering the art of passionate, personal promotion.

It’s the business of saving lives. Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women - chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers - who have chosen to toil for years in the lab in order to transform scientific theories into new lifesaving medicines. You’ll witness the day-to-day labors, victories and defeats of the dedicated professionals who are waging a war against the diseases that still plague mankind.

Henry Ford, uno dei più famosi imprenditori della storia americana, fu il fondatore dell'omonima casa di produzione di automobili, la Ford Motor Company, conosciuta anche solo come Ford. Qui seguiremo i momenti salienti della compagnia, gli alti e i bassi, attraverso aneddoti e citazioni. Cercheremo di capire come ha fatto un uomo dalle umili origini, nato in una famiglia di agricoltori nella periferia di Detroit, a fondare e dirigere uno dei più grandi imperi industriali del XX secolo e diventare un esempio per ogni manager. Cercheremo, insomma, di capire il segreto del suo successo.

Leonardo Del Vecchio ha creato dal nulla il gigante Luxottica. Durante gli anni si è circondato di persone abili e intelligenti che l'hanno aiutato (e l'aiutano) nella gestione di questo suo colosso industriale. L'esperienza di Leonardo Del Vecchio ci dimostra che spesso i titoli non sono sinonimo di successo o garanzia.

With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf.

Ingvar Kamprad, fondatore dell'impero IKEA e suo leader fino a qualche anno fa, è uno degli imprenditori più famosi del mondo. In questo breve viaggio nella storia dell'azienda IKEA, seguiremo il signor Kamprad nelle sue visioni giovanili, nelle sue scelte e nelle strategie per vendere che lo hanno reso uno degli uomini e imprenditori più ricchi del mondo.

We all have a lot to learn from the diary of a teacher named Esmé Raji Codell, an educator who has struggled to maintain individuality in the face of bureaucracy and whose defiant stand against mediocrity will reverberate in companies as well as classrooms everywhere.

Fresh from her triumph at Lucent, Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in July 1999. Suddenly a woman was running one of the largest technology companies on earth, venturing farther than anyone else dared into traditional men's territory. Perfect Enough is the definitive account of her daredevil bid to remake HP with a record-shattering $20 billion acquisition of archrival Compaq Computer.

Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street - Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine - created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions.

In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, best-selling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height of the 1990s bull market, they were America¿s new heroes: the heroes of business. They were our bold new leaders, cutting the fat, pushing for productivity, implementing visionary plans, and making strategic deals.

During Wall Street's last big bull market, there were brokers in $3,000 suits, billion-dollar IPO's, and 30-year-olds making $100,000 a month. And then there was Louis Pasciuto, who came from Staten Island at the age of 19 and discovered one indelible truth about himself: He was born to steal. This is the astounding, true story of the rise and fall of this fast-talking, street-smart wiseguy, as well as the insidious ways the Mob infiltrates, then controls, Wall Street.