One Life to Lead
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Product Details
Publisher: Shemoto Press
Release Date: October 12, 2021
Formats: Paperback, Ebook
ISBN: PB: 978-1-7370739-0-1; EB: 978-1-7370739-1-8
Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 212
Business Success Through Better Life Design
Russell Benaroya
This is a business leadership book, but it’s not about how to lead others.
It’s about how to lead yourself.
Behind every business there are leaders doing their best to navigate work alongside the universal challenges we all share—health, relationships, finances, and self-doubt. Facing these daily challenges, all while trying to manage the uncertainties of building a business, can get exhausting. How do we take control of our lives to better lead ourselves in order to more effectively lead others?
Author, entrepreneur, and speaker Russell Benaroya reveals a formula for business success that begins with an intentional approach to design your life. After selling his business and making the bold choice to move his family from Seattle to Costa Rica to nourish relationships and refresh his business outlook, Benaroya designed a new path for himself, one that not only better aligned to the person he wanted to become but embraced the person he is.
In One Life to Lead, Benaroya imparts his five basic design steps to help you, and those you lead, create a foundation for sustainable life and business success. You will learn how to distinguish stories from facts, establish your core principles, harness energy from your environment, and get and stay in your “genius zone” to successfully redesign your life.
Within each design step, Benaroya shares the honest stories of notable business leaders who faced difficult decisions in the face of uncertainty, so that we may learn from their experiences. You’ll see how they redesigned their own paths, took risks, and maintained a high level of curiosity as they sought to better understand themselves and their role as a leader. Complete with exercises, strategies, and first-hand experiences, One Life to Lead will give you the tools you need to clearly and confidently design your life.
About the Author
Russell Benaroya is an author, entrepreneur, and speaker focused on helping people achieve their highest and best use by staying in their genius zones. His writing has appeared in Forbes, and he is a recipient of the 40 Under 40 recognition from the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He is also the author of Free Yourself to Work on Your Business.
Reviews
“In this ambitious and highly practical guide, Benaroya (Free Yourself to Work On Your Business) makes the case that it’s backwards to think ‘I’ll get my professional life in order first and then focus on the personal.’ Instead, he argues that ‘the very things you are putting off until you succeed are the ingredients necessary for success.’ Drawing on the example of his own life and a period in which he felt stuck and not in control, he calls for business leaders to ‘design’ their lives, just as they would design a strategic plan. That process demands a willingness to ask themselves where they want to be—and how to build the route to get there.” —Publisher’s Weekly
“Russell Benaroya’s powerful new book, One Life to Lead, is a compassionate and thoughtful guide to leadership success. His five steps give leaders a practical map for the journey and inspiration along the way.” —Gay Hendricks, PhD, author of The Big Leap and The Genius Zone
“Leadership demands that you look inside yourself first. One Life to Lead will help you smooth out the ups and downs of life and business by laying out a series of steps you can take to stop reacting and start architecting. Read this book first before getting involved in your next leadership role—or just read it now!” —Cameron Herold, founder of COO Alliance and Second-in-Command podcast, author of Vivid Vision, and former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
“In Russell Benaroya’s timely book, One Life to Lead, he reminds us of the untapped and brilliant potential within each of our lives. Russell challenges us to clarify what matters most, embrace what we can influence, let go of all we can'‘t, and be far more intentional in designing a life of true success. Read this book. Thank me later!” —John O’Leary, #1 national bestselling author of On Fire and In Awe
“A successful life and career, I believe, require both an external and internal journey. In this book Russell shares his novel approach to designing both trips. The hard-earned insights captured in his five steps, reflect the humility it took to really get to know himself and the courage it required to translate his potential into action.” —Harry Strachan, former professor at Harvard Business School and director emeritus at Bain & Company
“Russell Benaroya has done the impossible here. He lays out a specific plan for how to design the life you want to live, the life you deserve to live—covering work, family, and relationships—with a simple-to-understand, comprehensive framework. Everyone can learn something important from this book, and I am going to start recommending it to people I care about tomorrow.” —Greg Gottesman, cofounder and managing director, Pioneer Square Labs
“Russell Benaroya’s vulnerability about his own life, both personal and professional, draws the reader in to want to learn more about what has worked, (and not worked) for him in his life. A major takeaway for me was to not compromise our core principles. They carry us to the success we all look for.” —Greg Campbell author of The Surprising Power of the Coil and The 5-2-1 Principle, Former EVP of Coldwell Banker
“In One Life to Lead, Russell distills real-world lessons into a plan that any leader can follow to design an ideal life and career. I especially recommend this book to anyone who is navigating a work-life transition. If this is you, read this book first! When you’re at your best, doing what you are truly called to do, then you and your family benefit, your business benefits, and we all benefit. So invest in yourself by reading One Life to Lead.” —Lex Sisney, author of Organizational Physics and Designed to Scale