Trade-Up!: 5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781118767337)

Silicon Valley wunderkind Rayona Sharpnack has been a schoolteacher, tennis champion, manager and player for a women's professional softball team, and a celebrity who coaches some of the most successful leaders in business. Trade Up! draws on Sharpnack&'s experience, as well as stories of successful leaders she has worked with, to reveal how leaders limit themselves by holding on to ideas or assumptions about ourselves--what she calls your "context" --that are no longer valid. Trade Up! outlines the 5 steps to help leaders gain awareness of these assumptions and trade up from limiting beliefs and behaviors to those that will help them change the world. The 5 steps are

• Reveal your context what do you believe about yourself? What holds you back? How do you impact others?
• Own your context take stock of the upside and downside of your context, and examine the intended and unintended consequences of it!
• Design a new context that gets you what you want begin by asking yourself "how good are you willing to have life be?"
• Sustain your new context: develop new practices to get this new context to stick!
• Activate your context and engage with the world move out of your own concerns and into partnership and community with others to help change the world around you!

Author: Rayona Sharpnack
ISBN-10: 1118767330
ISBN-13: 9781118767337
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2007
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d