Elevating Excellence: 10 Defining Choices that Lead to Relevance

by Curtis Wallace, T.D. Jakes (Foreword)

The 10 Leadership Qualities that Will Take Your Organization to Next Level Success

Are you ready for next level leadership success?

Your daily decisions can take you to next level success!

Unlock the 10 essential qualities that take your leadership and organization to the next level!

Every leader has to make choices. Some move the organization forward with great momentum and success. Unfortunately, wrong decisions have the ability to stagnate your organization and hold you back from achieving greatness. Curtis Wallace has successfully navigated both the corporate and faith worlds, currently serving as COO for TD Jakes Enterprises. More than high concept and ear-tickling theory, Wallace delivers 10 practical keys that empower you to make the choices that set you and your organization up for excellence.

This book is your essential how-to guide on topics such

Power of a big idea

How to stay focused in a world of distraction

Learning when to say “Yes”

Importance of branding

Teaming up to win

Next level success is 10 steps away. Unlock your leadership potential, transform your organization, and experience elevated excellence today!

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 20, 2013

Reviews

[ANNETTE ANDERSON · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Book

I love the examples given about what type of people should be coachable. Also, how a leader should not be ashamed for having a coach or mentor. I love what Curtis had to say about teams too.

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I give it a four. As it is written, it probably ought to be a three but as it should be written, it would be a five. What does that mean? Explanation: First, the book is a little short which is OK BUT a good part of the book as it is directly addresses churches. I took to reading this book to reinforce my business thinking and didn't know it would hit upon organized religion. Now, that isn't necessarily bad, but subtract that from the already kind of short text, and you are left with a VERY short business book. That's all I am saying. I think I understand the author's purpose so I wouldn't say he should drop that focus but I would say the rest of the book needs to be fleshed out more so that it feels right to someone like me.

One other thing this book really needs and maybe it would have impacted the content decision as well - an editor. Now, I don't know who did the proofing or acted as editor and in general it wasn't a problem but there were a couple times where the author should have caught the issues and I can't believe a seasoned editor wouldn't have. Example sentence:

"Then a casting director is then added and then the cast is added to the team."

See anything wrong?

Overall, it is a good book, but if I was to give the author some advice, it would be to do a major re-write and then re-release it. It has a lot of potential still to be exercised.

[Bob Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent little book on leadership. Leader's ability to focus on the things the organization does well (chapter 2), ability to recognize and seize opportunities (chapter 3), and being a good coach (chapter 8) are the best chapters. All three have relevance for my job as Great Lakes ACSL.