Author: John Bates
Title: Your Amazing Itty Bitty Guide to Being TED-Worthy: 15 Essential Secrets of Successful Speaking Based in Human Neurobiology
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
This book has made relationships closer, brought in millions in investment, gotten people raises and promotions, and even helped people have an outsized impact on the world.
Author: John Bates
Title: Your Amazing Itty Bitty Guide to Being TED-Worthy: 15 Essential Secrets of Successful Speaking Based in Human Neurobiology
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
This book has made relationships closer, brought in millions in investment, gotten people raises and promotions, and even helped people have an outsized impact on the world.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Jason Voiovich
Title: Marketer In Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
"Marketer in Chief" is more than a collection of history lessons and instructive stories. I believe our current political environment is trapped. We can't seem to see beyond "right versus left" and "us versus them." This book helps people see the president in a new way – not a caricature, but a real person facing tough problems, and (more often than not) doing their best to address them. When we see people as individuals, we're less rigid. We are more open to listening. And we might even be willing to change.
Author: Jason Voiovich
Title: Marketer In Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
"Marketer in Chief" is more than a collection of history lessons and instructive stories. I believe our current political environment is trapped. We can't seem to see beyond "right versus left" and "us versus them." This book helps people see the president in a new way – not a caricature, but a real person facing tough problems, and (more often than not) doing their best to address them. When we see people as individuals, we're less rigid. We are more open to listening. And we might even be willing to change.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Paula Kent
Title: Heroic Choices: Break Through Fear, Realize Your Dreams and Transform Your Life
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
The book "Heroic Choices" describes the cycle of personal transformation. Each stage is named, examined and explored. Each chapter is one stage and draws on an eclectic variety of sources to breathe life into personal growth. The book triangulates my personal story and research participants' stories, and I took inspiration from Joseph Campbell's theory of the "mono-myth," or the "hero's journey," and Jack Mezirow's theory of "transformative learning. I have grounded the book in familiar stories to create a down-to-earth and practical guide for anyone on a path of personal growth, to illuminate the moments that feel the darkest are, in fact, the moments we need to experience to move forward. The stages propel us forward not because everything is easy but because we develop skills to overcome our fears and realize our potential.
Author: Paula Kent
Title: Heroic Choices: Break Through Fear, Realize Your Dreams and Transform Your Life
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
The book "Heroic Choices" describes the cycle of personal transformation. Each stage is named, examined and explored. Each chapter is one stage and draws on an eclectic variety of sources to breathe life into personal growth. The book triangulates my personal story and research participants' stories, and I took inspiration from Joseph Campbell's theory of the "mono-myth," or the "hero's journey," and Jack Mezirow's theory of "transformative learning. I have grounded the book in familiar stories to create a down-to-earth and practical guide for anyone on a path of personal growth, to illuminate the moments that feel the darkest are, in fact, the moments we need to experience to move forward. The stages propel us forward not because everything is easy but because we develop skills to overcome our fears and realize our potential.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Christopher Gilbert
Title: The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World one Choice at a Time
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
As useful in the board room as the family room, this easy-to-read book contains insightful stories and a powerful model that sharpens the ethical lens and empowers readers to examine their own standards and values by applying transformational concepts to their life. Most importantly, readers finish The Noble Edge encouraged that they have the power and capacities - individually and collectively - to achieve moral progress and bring better ethics into their organizations, families, communities, and a world starved for truth and trust.
Author: Christopher Gilbert
Title: The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World one Choice at a Time
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
As useful in the board room as the family room, this easy-to-read book contains insightful stories and a powerful model that sharpens the ethical lens and empowers readers to examine their own standards and values by applying transformational concepts to their life. Most importantly, readers finish The Noble Edge encouraged that they have the power and capacities - individually and collectively - to achieve moral progress and bring better ethics into their organizations, families, communities, and a world starved for truth and trust.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Lucy Beato
Title: I Had Killer Boobs: How I Slayed My Tumor with Sass & Humor
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
I Had killer Boobs is as an inspiring and humorous tale filled with heartfelt lessons, anecdotes and activities that will reaffirm the reader's faith and help them heal. It gives the reader simple tools, funny phrases, affirmations and fun activities that help them cope when motivation lapse
Author: Lucy Beato
Title: I Had Killer Boobs: How I Slayed My Tumor with Sass & Humor
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
I Had killer Boobs is as an inspiring and humorous tale filled with heartfelt lessons, anecdotes and activities that will reaffirm the reader's faith and help them heal. It gives the reader simple tools, funny phrases, affirmations and fun activities that help them cope when motivation lapse
Rating: Finalist
Author: Judge Leonia Lloyd
Title: Your Honor, Your Honor: A Journey Through Grief to Restorative Justice
Published: 2020
How this book is helping:
This book, "Your Honor, Your Honor", will help people who are struggling with self-esteem, self-identity, self-care, self-compassion and self-acceptance, which has led them down a path where they have made poor decisions. They will learn to stop beating themselves up mentally, emotionally, and financially. The readers will learn from the protagonist in the book that they must make a shift in their lives and stop carrying around a backpack of disempowering bricks. They must let go of the bricks to see a world of success and empowerment. This book shows the readers it is never too late to begin again, never too late to try something new and never too late to be curious and creative. The readers will learn through the journey with the author that it is never too late to let their "brilliance" come out to play.
Author: Judge Leonia Lloyd
Title: Your Honor, Your Honor: A Journey Through Grief to Restorative Justice
Published: 2020
How this book is helping:
This book, "Your Honor, Your Honor", will help people who are struggling with self-esteem, self-identity, self-care, self-compassion and self-acceptance, which has led them down a path where they have made poor decisions. They will learn to stop beating themselves up mentally, emotionally, and financially. The readers will learn from the protagonist in the book that they must make a shift in their lives and stop carrying around a backpack of disempowering bricks. They must let go of the bricks to see a world of success and empowerment. This book shows the readers it is never too late to begin again, never too late to try something new and never too late to be curious and creative. The readers will learn through the journey with the author that it is never too late to let their "brilliance" come out to play.
Rating: Winner
Author: Phillip Wilcox
Title: The Future is Autonomous: The U.S. and China Race to Develop the Driverless Car
Published: 2020
How this book is helping:
I discussed the potential opportunities that autonomous vehicles (AVs) could bring people with disabilities. People with at least a high school degree who have a disability earn 37 percent less on average than people with no disability for the same work. AVs could provide a significant economic benefits for these people.
People in low-income areas experience significant transportation inequities for personal transportation. There are many "food deserts" in the U.S. as well, where people do not have access to healthy foods. AVs have the potential to address these inequities, giving people more opportunities and can deliver food to people's homes who do not have access to healthy food by partnering with grocery stores.
Trucks are an essential part of the supply chain in the U.S. Over 70% of the items in your home were at one point on a truck There is a lack of truck drivers, however, and autonomous trucks can aid this vital part of the supply chain as the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.
Author: Phillip Wilcox
Title: The Future is Autonomous: The U.S. and China Race to Develop the Driverless Car
Published: 2020
How this book is helping:
I discussed the potential opportunities that autonomous vehicles (AVs) could bring people with disabilities. People with at least a high school degree who have a disability earn 37 percent less on average than people with no disability for the same work. AVs could provide a significant economic benefits for these people.
People in low-income areas experience significant transportation inequities for personal transportation. There are many "food deserts" in the U.S. as well, where people do not have access to healthy foods. AVs have the potential to address these inequities, giving people more opportunities and can deliver food to people's homes who do not have access to healthy food by partnering with grocery stores.
Trucks are an essential part of the supply chain in the U.S. Over 70% of the items in your home were at one point on a truck There is a lack of truck drivers, however, and autonomous trucks can aid this vital part of the supply chain as the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.
Rating: Winner
Author: Brandon Tosti
Title: Who We Meet Along the Way
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book, "Who We Meet Along the Way", reminds everyone to make time in to reach out to those who played a role in your personal and professional development and thank them.
Author: Brandon Tosti
Title: Who We Meet Along the Way
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book, "Who We Meet Along the Way", reminds everyone to make time in to reach out to those who played a role in your personal and professional development and thank them.
Rating: Winner
Author: KF Dochartaigh F
Title: Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle: Adaptations for Survival
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book helps people endure and survive in the corporate world by teaching them about three distinct areas.
The first section teaches readers about their environment, how it shapes the culture and how to use the environment to survive.
The 2nd section of the book teaches people to ‘know their opponent’, which shows the reader how to recognise the types of behaviour displayed by coworkers and managers and how to deal with any negativity from these interactions and continue on the track of success.
The final section teaches the reader about themselves, as knowing themselves ensures they understand why they react in certain ways to stress and how to recognise these signals.
The book has been meticulously researched with animal behaviours documented and applied to the study of human psychology with additional research on Military techniques and combat psychology also included to help the reader understand and react to conflict in the workplace in a professional and positive way.
Author: KF Dochartaigh F
Title: Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle: Adaptations for Survival
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book helps people endure and survive in the corporate world by teaching them about three distinct areas.
The first section teaches readers about their environment, how it shapes the culture and how to use the environment to survive.
The 2nd section of the book teaches people to ‘know their opponent’, which shows the reader how to recognise the types of behaviour displayed by coworkers and managers and how to deal with any negativity from these interactions and continue on the track of success.
The final section teaches the reader about themselves, as knowing themselves ensures they understand why they react in certain ways to stress and how to recognise these signals.
The book has been meticulously researched with animal behaviours documented and applied to the study of human psychology with additional research on Military techniques and combat psychology also included to help the reader understand and react to conflict in the workplace in a professional and positive way.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Carla Bass
Title: Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
Government agencies, corporations, private business, NGOs, academia, and individuals benefit from “Write to Influence!” Colonel Bass’ battle cries: “Powerful writing changes lives” and “Powerful writing is the lifeblood of effective organizations." With this book, you can:
• Secure contracts and grants … write winning proposals
• Land a dream job … craft a stellar resume
• Score a big promotion … Nail input to performance reviews
• Catapult a business … Craft gripping marketing material
• Win support for worthy causes … Convey a puissant message
• Open academic doors … Ace the college application essay
Our office constantly employs Carla’s methodology in composing documents sent to Congress and other federal agencies. Our messages always resonate with our audiences’ needs! — Richard Potosnak
I recommend this book enthusiastically! Students and adults learn to compose with clarity, directness, and grace. I am a writing teacher with 30 years’ experience. — H. Lyman, PhD
Author: Carla Bass
Title: Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
Government agencies, corporations, private business, NGOs, academia, and individuals benefit from “Write to Influence!” Colonel Bass’ battle cries: “Powerful writing changes lives” and “Powerful writing is the lifeblood of effective organizations." With this book, you can:
• Secure contracts and grants … write winning proposals
• Land a dream job … craft a stellar resume
• Score a big promotion … Nail input to performance reviews
• Catapult a business … Craft gripping marketing material
• Win support for worthy causes … Convey a puissant message
• Open academic doors … Ace the college application essay
Our office constantly employs Carla’s methodology in composing documents sent to Congress and other federal agencies. Our messages always resonate with our audiences’ needs! — Richard Potosnak
I recommend this book enthusiastically! Students and adults learn to compose with clarity, directness, and grace. I am a writing teacher with 30 years’ experience. — H. Lyman, PhD
Rating: Winner
Author: Morag Barrett
Title: You, Me, We: Why we all need a friend at work (and how to show up as one!)
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
One of the most important indicators of individual, team, and organizational success is the presence of an ally mindset.
When we have best friends at work—people who are with us, in good times and bad, and who help ensure we make it through together—we thrive. When we don’t, we flail, and eventually crash and burn, leaving only a smoking hulk of debris behind as evidence that they were ever even there.
Through their extensive work with clients that include Google, National Geographic, Microsoft, and many more, the authors have discovered the framework for an ally mindset includes five key parts:
- Abundance and generosity
- Connection and compassion
- Courage and vulnerability
- Candor and debate
- Action and accountability
In You, Me, We, they share valuable lessons on each of these aspects, to show you how to be a better friend at work, and how doing so leads to greater happiness, collaboration, and business outcomes.
Author: Morag Barrett
Title: You, Me, We: Why we all need a friend at work (and how to show up as one!)
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
One of the most important indicators of individual, team, and organizational success is the presence of an ally mindset.
When we have best friends at work—people who are with us, in good times and bad, and who help ensure we make it through together—we thrive. When we don’t, we flail, and eventually crash and burn, leaving only a smoking hulk of debris behind as evidence that they were ever even there.
Through their extensive work with clients that include Google, National Geographic, Microsoft, and many more, the authors have discovered the framework for an ally mindset includes five key parts:
- Abundance and generosity
- Connection and compassion
- Courage and vulnerability
- Candor and debate
- Action and accountability
In You, Me, We, they share valuable lessons on each of these aspects, to show you how to be a better friend at work, and how doing so leads to greater happiness, collaboration, and business outcomes.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Wendy Rouillard
Title: Where, Oh Where, Is Barnaby Bear?
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
My hope is that Where, Oh Where, Is Barnaby Bear? will offer comfort, joy, and encourage children to try new things as they embark on new adventures in life.
Author: Wendy Rouillard
Title: Where, Oh Where, Is Barnaby Bear?
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
My hope is that Where, Oh Where, Is Barnaby Bear? will offer comfort, joy, and encourage children to try new things as they embark on new adventures in life.
Rating: Winner
Author: Michael Alcee
Title: Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
The book is geared towards changing the way therapists see themselves--teaching them to be both both scientists AND artists--and the way the public (and therapists) conceptualize mental health--as the art and science of reading and working with the changes. My hope is that the book will be both a call-to-action to therapists of all levels and backgrounds and will forward a totally new vision for the public's view of mental health. Filled with movie, music, literature, and cinematic case examples, the book is written so that even a layperson could learn what to look for in the therapist of their dreams and even a veteran therapist will come away inspired how to integrate the science within the art.
Author: Michael Alcee
Title: Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
The book is geared towards changing the way therapists see themselves--teaching them to be both both scientists AND artists--and the way the public (and therapists) conceptualize mental health--as the art and science of reading and working with the changes. My hope is that the book will be both a call-to-action to therapists of all levels and backgrounds and will forward a totally new vision for the public's view of mental health. Filled with movie, music, literature, and cinematic case examples, the book is written so that even a layperson could learn what to look for in the therapist of their dreams and even a veteran therapist will come away inspired how to integrate the science within the art.
Rating: Winner
Author: Ron Carucci
Title: To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
Readers have been telling me since the books release how much it has shaped their understanding (and lack of it) about what honesty really is. They are creating team environments where people are speaking their minds, working with greater purpose, and where fairness is showing up more regularly. Leaders can earn and keep the trust of others with a reliable approach to being who they say they are - learning to ensure their actions and words match; by leading with greater dignity in accountability and ensuring everyone has an equal chance of succeeding; by leading more transparently - ensuring how they make decisions is trustworthy and consistent; and by embracing those who are different - those who may have once been a "rival" across an organizational border are now becoming allies and colleagues. Readers are changing how they lead for the better and the impact is showing.
Author: Ron Carucci
Title: To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
Readers have been telling me since the books release how much it has shaped their understanding (and lack of it) about what honesty really is. They are creating team environments where people are speaking their minds, working with greater purpose, and where fairness is showing up more regularly. Leaders can earn and keep the trust of others with a reliable approach to being who they say they are - learning to ensure their actions and words match; by leading with greater dignity in accountability and ensuring everyone has an equal chance of succeeding; by leading more transparently - ensuring how they make decisions is trustworthy and consistent; and by embracing those who are different - those who may have once been a "rival" across an organizational border are now becoming allies and colleagues. Readers are changing how they lead for the better and the impact is showing.
Rating: Finalist
Author: W.K. (Bill) Rader
Title: The Venn Effect: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success Through Purpose, Second Edition
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
My book guides the reader through my experience creating, running and selling 5 unique business over several decades. Each experience is highlighted with lessons learned at the end of each - both good and bad. In the book I don't run away from failure, but own all failure as well as celebrate my success. I also highlight my stories with articles i wrote for both Forbes and Inc.
I wrote the book in my voice - I tell the story from beginning to end, all in my own words. I walk the reader from my earliest business as a young man (which i sold at 18 years of age) to my current Biotech business. I have encounters with some big names that influenced me along the way, and helped to shape me as a person and entrepreneur.
Author: W.K. (Bill) Rader
Title: The Venn Effect: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success Through Purpose, Second Edition
Published: 2019
How this book is helping:
My book guides the reader through my experience creating, running and selling 5 unique business over several decades. Each experience is highlighted with lessons learned at the end of each - both good and bad. In the book I don't run away from failure, but own all failure as well as celebrate my success. I also highlight my stories with articles i wrote for both Forbes and Inc.
I wrote the book in my voice - I tell the story from beginning to end, all in my own words. I walk the reader from my earliest business as a young man (which i sold at 18 years of age) to my current Biotech business. I have encounters with some big names that influenced me along the way, and helped to shape me as a person and entrepreneur.
Rating: Winner
Author: John Livesay
Title: The Sale Is in the Tale
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
This book, "The Sale Is in the Tale", shows people that whoever tells the best story wins the sale! The book helps people stop coming in 2nd place when they pitch against competitors. They learn how to tell stories that tug at people's heartstrings so they open their purse strings.
Author: John Livesay
Title: The Sale Is in the Tale
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
This book, "The Sale Is in the Tale", shows people that whoever tells the best story wins the sale! The book helps people stop coming in 2nd place when they pitch against competitors. They learn how to tell stories that tug at people's heartstrings so they open their purse strings.
Rating: Winner
Author: Garrett Sutton
Title: Veil Not Fail: Protecting Your Personal Assets from Business Attacks
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
This book, "Veil Not Fail", is a straightforward guide to corporate governance and financial risk mitigation for anyone who owns a business, property, or other investments – or for anyone looking too. With my signature candid and easy-to-understand style, I give you the information you need to better defend yourself and your company, and more importantly, reduce the risk of a lawsuit in the first place.
Author: Garrett Sutton
Title: Veil Not Fail: Protecting Your Personal Assets from Business Attacks
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
This book, "Veil Not Fail", is a straightforward guide to corporate governance and financial risk mitigation for anyone who owns a business, property, or other investments – or for anyone looking too. With my signature candid and easy-to-understand style, I give you the information you need to better defend yourself and your company, and more importantly, reduce the risk of a lawsuit in the first place.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Wayne Edwards
Title: Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This children's book, "Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear", helps the 3-7 age-group target audience by teaching them the value of working together with others in order to solve difficult problems.
Author: Wayne Edwards
Title: Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This children's book, "Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear", helps the 3-7 age-group target audience by teaching them the value of working together with others in order to solve difficult problems.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Todd Civin
Title: Pulling Each Other Along: 31 Inspirational Stories of Human Kindness
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Pulling Each Other Along, with its 30+ inspirational stories of human compassion, is intended to provide practical advice and inspiration for acts of kindness. The significance of helping others while helping ourselves is paramount as we grow in kindness and bring people together regardless of race, gender, abilities or disabilities, political affiliations, or wealth status. You’ll enjoy inspirational stories from the likes of Dave Clark, the only professional baseball player who went from crutches to pitching; Rocky Bleier, who, after being wounded during his service in the US Army, became a starting running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers; Laura Chagnon, who was left paralyzed and legally blind after an assault on her twenty-sixth birthday but is now a motivational speaker; and many others. This book will inspire, challenge, and enlighten you with stories that highlight some of the good in this world―showing you, step-by-step, how we can all pull each other along.
Author: Todd Civin
Title: Pulling Each Other Along: 31 Inspirational Stories of Human Kindness
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Pulling Each Other Along, with its 30+ inspirational stories of human compassion, is intended to provide practical advice and inspiration for acts of kindness. The significance of helping others while helping ourselves is paramount as we grow in kindness and bring people together regardless of race, gender, abilities or disabilities, political affiliations, or wealth status. You’ll enjoy inspirational stories from the likes of Dave Clark, the only professional baseball player who went from crutches to pitching; Rocky Bleier, who, after being wounded during his service in the US Army, became a starting running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers; Laura Chagnon, who was left paralyzed and legally blind after an assault on her twenty-sixth birthday but is now a motivational speaker; and many others. This book will inspire, challenge, and enlighten you with stories that highlight some of the good in this world―showing you, step-by-step, how we can all pull each other along.
Rating: Winner
Author: Devin Thorpe
Title: Superpowers for Good: The Skills You Can Master to Leave Your Mark on the World
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
Superpowers for Good teaches people how to emulate great changemakers like Bill Gates and Olympian Apolo Ohno. By learning how Bill Gates uses patience to accelerate success in public health or how Apolo used hard work to achieve record-setting success in short-track speed skating, changemakers learn how they can apply these lessons to their own situation and achieve more good. The book includes insights from over 60 changemakers, providing actionable insights for employing the practices of people who are already doing good in the world.
Author: Devin Thorpe
Title: Superpowers for Good: The Skills You Can Master to Leave Your Mark on the World
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
Superpowers for Good teaches people how to emulate great changemakers like Bill Gates and Olympian Apolo Ohno. By learning how Bill Gates uses patience to accelerate success in public health or how Apolo used hard work to achieve record-setting success in short-track speed skating, changemakers learn how they can apply these lessons to their own situation and achieve more good. The book includes insights from over 60 changemakers, providing actionable insights for employing the practices of people who are already doing good in the world.
Rating: Winner
Author: John List
Title: The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
As The Voltage Effect states, “Scalable ideas are all alike; every unscalable idea is unique in its own way.” Ideas with “high voltage” are classified by a set of characteristics necessary for successful scaling. Success and failure are not a function of luck. The science of scaling provides the framework for assessing whether an idea is scalable, and if so, how to successfully take this idea to scale. Ideas with “high voltage” are classified by a set of characteristics necessary for successful scaling. One can identify if an idea is at risk of a “voltage drop” using what List calls, “the five vital signs”: false positives, biased representativeness of population, non-negotiables that can’t grow or be replicated, negative spillovers, and the cost trap. Ignoring these signs can have profound consequences: lost money, time and hopes to name a few. The Voltage Effect provides an accessible toolkit full of proven principles and tips for scaling.
Author: John List
Title: The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
As The Voltage Effect states, “Scalable ideas are all alike; every unscalable idea is unique in its own way.” Ideas with “high voltage” are classified by a set of characteristics necessary for successful scaling. Success and failure are not a function of luck. The science of scaling provides the framework for assessing whether an idea is scalable, and if so, how to successfully take this idea to scale. Ideas with “high voltage” are classified by a set of characteristics necessary for successful scaling. One can identify if an idea is at risk of a “voltage drop” using what List calls, “the five vital signs”: false positives, biased representativeness of population, non-negotiables that can’t grow or be replicated, negative spillovers, and the cost trap. Ignoring these signs can have profound consequences: lost money, time and hopes to name a few. The Voltage Effect provides an accessible toolkit full of proven principles and tips for scaling.
Rating: Winner
Author: Karie Cassell
Title: The Domino Diet: How to Heal You from the Inside Out
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book helps individuals understand the root causes of emotional eating and to heal from the inside out while bringing hope in discovering the will-to-empower vs willpower energy alone. For instance, red blood cells last 120-days and are a marker of health. Yet often a diagnosis can often miss the brilliance of the body and subconscious mind to regenerate, renew and restore right down to the cellular level. A healthy lifestyle is part of it but a healthy mind maintains it vs. what honeymoons, lotto winners, and weight loss have in common--a misunderstanding of maintenance. It's a journey, not a destination.
The craving checklist and 4-part assessment are tools that help understand true cravings. The focus on micronutrients has also created misleading food battles. A deep dive helps individuals with embracing the micronutrients and as flexitarians to enjoy food again.
Discovering it isn't just what you eat, but how you eat, will help us live longer with long-lasting results.
Author: Karie Cassell
Title: The Domino Diet: How to Heal You from the Inside Out
Published: 2021
How this book is helping:
This book helps individuals understand the root causes of emotional eating and to heal from the inside out while bringing hope in discovering the will-to-empower vs willpower energy alone. For instance, red blood cells last 120-days and are a marker of health. Yet often a diagnosis can often miss the brilliance of the body and subconscious mind to regenerate, renew and restore right down to the cellular level. A healthy lifestyle is part of it but a healthy mind maintains it vs. what honeymoons, lotto winners, and weight loss have in common--a misunderstanding of maintenance. It's a journey, not a destination.
The craving checklist and 4-part assessment are tools that help understand true cravings. The focus on micronutrients has also created misleading food battles. A deep dive helps individuals with embracing the micronutrients and as flexitarians to enjoy food again.
Discovering it isn't just what you eat, but how you eat, will help us live longer with long-lasting results.
Rating: Winner
Author: Tissa Richards
Title: No Permission Needed: Unlock Your Leadership Potential and Eliminate Self-Doubt
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Reading this book will help readers achieve the career they want and deserve by learning to demonstrate their value with confidence and clarity.
No Permission Needed is filled with easy-to follow challenges and inspiring stories from real women, that will help readers discover how to:
- Ditch the “elevator pitch” and create a catalyst statement
- Internalize the value they bring to any role or relationship
- Gain clarity on their leadership values
- Identify their personal leadership style
- Replace self-doubt with confidence
As a leadership expert and repeat software founder/CEO, Tissa Richards coaches Fortune 1000 companies and high-growth startups to create blueprints for personal and organization success. Now she shares those lessons in this book as part of her mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakeable sense of self.
Reading this book is like having Tissa at your side, guiding and encouraging you as you do the work to take your career to the next level.
Author: Tissa Richards
Title: No Permission Needed: Unlock Your Leadership Potential and Eliminate Self-Doubt
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Reading this book will help readers achieve the career they want and deserve by learning to demonstrate their value with confidence and clarity.
No Permission Needed is filled with easy-to follow challenges and inspiring stories from real women, that will help readers discover how to:
- Ditch the “elevator pitch” and create a catalyst statement
- Internalize the value they bring to any role or relationship
- Gain clarity on their leadership values
- Identify their personal leadership style
- Replace self-doubt with confidence
As a leadership expert and repeat software founder/CEO, Tissa Richards coaches Fortune 1000 companies and high-growth startups to create blueprints for personal and organization success. Now she shares those lessons in this book as part of her mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakeable sense of self.
Reading this book is like having Tissa at your side, guiding and encouraging you as you do the work to take your career to the next level.
Rating: Finalist
Author: Jenna Banks
Title: I Love Me More: How To Find Happiness And Success Through Self-Love
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Perhaps the best way to answer this would be to share some recent Amazon reviews that reveal how this book as helped these readers:
9/28/22 by jaethomas "Life changing! This book opened my eyes to things I never considered that involved self-love. It was relatable and honest. It helped me to establish boundaries even though it was uncomfortable at first. Keeping it to refer back on."
8/8/22 by Hannavas "...After reading a few pages, I had to put the book down, because change is scary, and some of us delay as long as we can, for fear of failure. I picked up the book 2 months later, and read the whole thing at once. I am ready to change my life and prioritize self care, because if we do not take care of ourselves, we simply cannot take care of others."
8/15/22 Mary Ann L. "Ultimately, you are the only one who controls your happiness and this book empowers you to take control of your life and not give away your self-worth or your power."
Author: Jenna Banks
Title: I Love Me More: How To Find Happiness And Success Through Self-Love
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
Perhaps the best way to answer this would be to share some recent Amazon reviews that reveal how this book as helped these readers:
9/28/22 by jaethomas "Life changing! This book opened my eyes to things I never considered that involved self-love. It was relatable and honest. It helped me to establish boundaries even though it was uncomfortable at first. Keeping it to refer back on."
8/8/22 by Hannavas "...After reading a few pages, I had to put the book down, because change is scary, and some of us delay as long as we can, for fear of failure. I picked up the book 2 months later, and read the whole thing at once. I am ready to change my life and prioritize self care, because if we do not take care of ourselves, we simply cannot take care of others."
8/15/22 Mary Ann L. "Ultimately, you are the only one who controls your happiness and this book empowers you to take control of your life and not give away your self-worth or your power."
Rating: Finalist
Author: Carol Abrahamson
Title: Fast-Track Your Book! 222 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand That Require Less Writing
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
I’m hoping to change the world by making it easier for thousands of executives, experts, entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals to share their expertise with millions (of readers) as they too write and work to change the world. They want to create a business-building book but often find the demands of creating one daunting. So they never get started. My self help-how to workbook, Fast-Track Your Book! 222 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand That Require Less Writing, makes the book creation process feel doable and gets them focused, organized and started. It guides them through my ultimate system of steps to make their book’s four essential foundational decisions plus provides dozens of possible book types to consider creating. Best of all, the book types we showcase often require lots less original writing than the typical business book, helping these aspiring authors not only to start but also to finish an important book that will improve the lives of many.
Author: Carol Abrahamson
Title: Fast-Track Your Book! 222 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand That Require Less Writing
Published: 2022
How this book is helping:
I’m hoping to change the world by making it easier for thousands of executives, experts, entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals to share their expertise with millions (of readers) as they too write and work to change the world. They want to create a business-building book but often find the demands of creating one daunting. So they never get started. My self help-how to workbook, Fast-Track Your Book! 222 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand That Require Less Writing, makes the book creation process feel doable and gets them focused, organized and started. It guides them through my ultimate system of steps to make their book’s four essential foundational decisions plus provides dozens of possible book types to consider creating. Best of all, the book types we showcase often require lots less original writing than the typical business book, helping these aspiring authors not only to start but also to finish an important book that will improve the lives of many.
Rating: Finalist