Resilient Leadership

A generational leader at her family's insurance agency, Chrissy Myers thought she knew the answers to business and life—until the Affordable Care Act shook the very foundation of the business. In the tailspin just before ACA went live, Chrissy unexpectedly lost her husband. Suddenly, she was a single mom with two kids under six, steering a business with an uncertain future. Chrissy candidly shares her struggles as a business leader in a market upheaval, the challenges common in a family business, and the stress she experienced as a widow and mom dating and building a healthy family.

Venture-backed companies are expected to grow at high velocity, raise large amounts of capital, and build teams effectively to achieve unicorn - no, decacorn - status. Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities, and black swan events. The Resilient Founder addresses the fundamentals of understanding our own inner workings and explores practical ways of overcoming our inner hurdles. Filled with simple, yet concrete strategies, lessons, and insights, founders and business leaders can work with stress, anxiety, and other mental challenges.

This Three Workbook Bundle contains the content from the first three workbooks in the Resilient Leaders: The Nine Secrets series. This bundle provides the script for the Audiobook version of the first three workbooks.

Daniel Siegel, bestselling author and one of the leading researchers on the neuroscience of mindfulness, talks about creating adaptive, resilient organizations.

Companies emerge from smart people with clever ideas. However, vision alone is not enough, as only one out of three companies lasts 10 years. It takes a systematic approach to make a company sustainably successful. In Your Company Is Your Castle, Sandeep Chennakeshu, a business transformation veteran, compares building a company to that of a medieval castle that has withstood the test of time, having weathered nature's elements and hordes of invaders.

Resilient leaders rise: Empower yourself and your team to conquer every challenge. Have you ever experienced a moment when the pace of the world seemed to surpass your ability to keep up? As a leader, the demands of navigating through challenging times can feel utterly overwhelming. The business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate, presenting new challenges and uncertainties every day.

Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity in the process. This timely book is ideally suited for the current era of anxiety and global upheaval that has awakened us to our collective dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Ann was agitated and troubled as she summoned the courage to recount what had happened. The intensity of her remarks was gripping the whole team; all eyes were on her. She took the extraordinary step of sharing her emotions with her team; she felt alone, helpless, unimportant, and rejected. In reflecting on our individual professional experiences, we each remember occasions when we were Ann; desperate for connection. At times we reacted by retreating to our offices and at other times by becoming angry, shouting, or being overly defensive. Has this ever happened to you?

Individuals, teams, and organizations must become more resilient in today’s complex world, and each one will experience failure at some point. Successful individuals, teams, and organizations bounce back. Winning After Losing: Building Resilient Teams offers a collection of lessons on leadership and resilience of winning teams. I am writing this book as a retired US Army three-star general and as the former chief operating officer of a public biotechnology company.

A new college president takes a fantastic journey in western North Dakota. He steps into an idyllic, rural community. But within a year, the small-town stage of Williston meteorically and unexpectedly shoots to world fame after the discovery of rich oil reserves far beneath the picturesque farmland. Isolated, abandoned, and surrounded by turmoil, the college president joins forces with local heroes, leveraging the community, and the bottomless reservoir of resilience and do-it-yourself values, to keep their small town great.

In Lessons from a Warzone, Al Roumani shares his very personal account of coping with the day-to-day realities of leading an organisation in dangerous and hostile conditions. His story shows how inspiration can come from the unlikeliest of places - from the timeless wisdom of merchants in ancient souks to the changing patterns of military checkpoints. During that time, not only did the bank remain robust when others faltered - it thrived and became the undisputed leading bank as people's trust in its capability to safeguard their lifelong savings strengthened.

Too Stupid to Fail is an examination of the effects self-consciousness, doubt, and anxiety have on one’s ability to succeed and achieve their goals. By challenging and eventually overcoming these barriers, one will gain a renewed self-confidence, leading to success in both personal and professional settings. Too Stupid to Fail is the completion of many years exploring the power and limits of human potential. A common narrative encourages people to work hard and go to school as a launching pad for success.

Leaders today are facing unique and complex business challenges. Those challenges can be turned into unexpected opportunities if you are open to leveraging the full potential of your thinking abilities through cognitive diversity, or whole brain thinking. The Integrative Leader model shows how to develop these skills and find your optimal performance zone. Filled with real life examples of integrative leaders, this book is sure to inspire you and provide a solid path for building the needed knowledge and experience.

COVID and the resulting pandemic has brought about more change than anyone could have predicted. Managers and executives at all levels had to deal with these unprecedented challenges with no help, assistance, or support...until now. Join best-selling author R. Michael Anderson as he provides the 12 principles for reshaping how to lead in this "Next Normal" and beyond. Make sure you have the latest knowledge in this brand new audiobook that will give you the added tools and skills to be the leader your team needs during these challenging times.

Paul Potter, PT, provides an honest discussion and practical direction to help providers chart a new course. The audiobook includes a candid evaluation of the changing environment and the alternatives available for the future. He discusses direct access to clients, and what newly empowered healthcare consumers expect and are willing to pay for.