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Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers
An innovative guide to developing dynamic leadership skills--drawn from the real life experiences of extreme adventurers
Elite adventurers understand how to excel in the most challenging environments on the planet. Unexpected obstacles can force creative thinking in any situation. Using inspirational stories from real adventurers, Wild Success shares nine leadership stories with skills that allow today's leader to thrive in the most unpredictable, challenging and dynamic workplaces.
The authors combine insights from the adventure world with innovative research from the field of neuroscience to provide you with unique and invaluable leadership lessons. With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to:
- Identify your purpose as a leader and an individual
- Build your resilience and your ability to adapt to change
- Reframe your attitude to optimize your cognitive performance
- Reach your full leadership potential, and more
Elite adventurers understand how to excel in the most challenging environments on the planet. Unexpected obstacles can force creative thinking in any situation. Using inspirational stories from real adventurers, Wild Success shares nine leadership stories with skills that allow today's leader to thrive in the most unpredictable, challenging and dynamic workplaces.
The authors combine insights from the adventure world with innovative research from the field of neuroscience to provide you with unique and invaluable leadership lessons. With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to:
- Identify your purpose as a leader and an individual
- Build your resilience and your ability to adapt to change
- Reframe your attitude to optimize your cognitive performance
- Reach your full leadership potential, and more
- GenresLeadership
256 pages, Hardcover
First published March 2, 2020
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April 16, 2020
Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely’s collaborative effort on the book "Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers" is a resounding success. The analogy they draw between the daring visionary efforts of extreme adventurers and successful business leaders seems obvious once you step back and consider it. Adventurers don’t leap blind into their endeavors; even the boldest, but instead accomplish momentous things as a result of careful planning and teamwork, not just a willingness to smash conventional norms and challenge our sense of the possible. Successful business leaders, as well, defy accepted wisdom and reach new heights by surrounding themselves with other talented individuals who buy into their vision and facilitate their efforts to challenge every conception of what is possible. "Wild Success" is, in part, rousing testimony to human potential.
Both Posey and Vallely know what they are talking about. Vallely is a respected businessman and renowned explorer who, in 2009, set a world record for the fastest unsupported journey to the geographic South Pole with two teammates at his side. Posey has worked for two decades as a leadership expert and management consultant. She is an educator with numerous academic laurels to her credit and a force in the corporate world. The authors structure Wild Success in seven chapters around seven distinct and all-encompassing themes such as purpose, personal sustainability, cognitive reappraisal, and innovation, among others. It is a substantial work, though never too long, that provides readers with an extensive overview of the connections explorers and forward-thinking corporate officers share.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: www.morewildsuccess.com
The book’s seven chapters are, as well, personal profiles of various explorers who achieved extraordinary feats. Coupled with these succinct depictions of each adventurer is a wealth of academic research the authors center on the overarching theme of each chapter and instructive lists laying out a path for readers to realize the “goals” examined during those pages. Posey and Vallely pack the stories and their observations into short well-constructed sentences; this is a book the authors clearly gear towards the widest possible reading audience and their the sure creative hand in evidence from beginning to end makes this an invigorating experience from the outset.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Success-L...
Vallely and Posey include a few photographs throughout the book as a way of further depicting the challenges each adventurer faces. These are first class photographs often portraying each adventurer at particularly dramatic points in their story. The aforementioned research included in the book is the likely result of Posey’s contributions to the book, given her background, but the authors integrate their talents in seamless fashion throughout the entirety of the text. This is an interesting and often thrilling book quite unlike the bevy of available texts on the subject of leadership and its unique manner of tackling the issue makes it stand out from the pack. Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely’s "Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers" is one of the better nonfiction books you are likely to encounter in 2020 and holds up under repeated reading.
Both Posey and Vallely know what they are talking about. Vallely is a respected businessman and renowned explorer who, in 2009, set a world record for the fastest unsupported journey to the geographic South Pole with two teammates at his side. Posey has worked for two decades as a leadership expert and management consultant. She is an educator with numerous academic laurels to her credit and a force in the corporate world. The authors structure Wild Success in seven chapters around seven distinct and all-encompassing themes such as purpose, personal sustainability, cognitive reappraisal, and innovation, among others. It is a substantial work, though never too long, that provides readers with an extensive overview of the connections explorers and forward-thinking corporate officers share.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: www.morewildsuccess.com
The book’s seven chapters are, as well, personal profiles of various explorers who achieved extraordinary feats. Coupled with these succinct depictions of each adventurer is a wealth of academic research the authors center on the overarching theme of each chapter and instructive lists laying out a path for readers to realize the “goals” examined during those pages. Posey and Vallely pack the stories and their observations into short well-constructed sentences; this is a book the authors clearly gear towards the widest possible reading audience and their the sure creative hand in evidence from beginning to end makes this an invigorating experience from the outset.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Success-L...
Vallely and Posey include a few photographs throughout the book as a way of further depicting the challenges each adventurer faces. These are first class photographs often portraying each adventurer at particularly dramatic points in their story. The aforementioned research included in the book is the likely result of Posey’s contributions to the book, given her background, but the authors integrate their talents in seamless fashion throughout the entirety of the text. This is an interesting and often thrilling book quite unlike the bevy of available texts on the subject of leadership and its unique manner of tackling the issue makes it stand out from the pack. Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely’s "Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers" is one of the better nonfiction books you are likely to encounter in 2020 and holds up under repeated reading.
October 17, 2021
I didn't think I would like this book as much as I did! I am not "outdoorsy" so I didn't think I would relate to the stories as much as I did. It was nice to get stories from everyday people and think about how you can relate those lessons to your own life.
September 30, 2020
The authors are adventurers themselves and I was curious to hear directly from them, what drives someone not just to do regular sport, but go really far or high or deep and in all cases risk life. And where is the connection with business. This book left me questioning the motivation, although many heroes there deserve big respect, but it does give good insight into how resilience, grit, motivation and striving for the best is developed even without reaching North Pole.
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