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 Whether you’re a CEO, start-up entrepreneur, manager at a Fortune 500 company, non-profit executive, health professional, or an educator, Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others and Ignite Positive Change will positively transform your day to day by offering a path towards finding meaning in your work, increasing the quality of your interactions, and inspiring your team.

In this paradigm-shifting leadership and motivation book by contemplative psychotherapist Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, and executive advisor Elazar Aslan, MBA, PCC, a new, science-based vision of leadership is revealed: one that prescribes disciplines of the mind, heart, and body to help leaders cultivate clarity, compassion and fearlessness for their teams and themselves. 

A Conscious Path to Leadership

The book features a range of practical applications based on neuropsychology and contemplative science fine-tuned in real world business uses, including: clarifying intentions for better decision-making; improving accountability and responsibility for improved team collaboration; and embodying purpose to optimize impact on one’s organization and society-at-large. 

 President Joe Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th President of the United States, is leading the most progressive transformation of American government since the 1960s. He also leads the most diverse cabinet of advisors in U.S. history. This has led many to wonder what it takes to successfully build bridges across racial, gender, and other divides.

Bestselling leadership author, Jeffrey Krames brings his insightful perspective delivering critical and impactful leadership secrets from successful leaders in modern history to his new book, THE JOE BIDEN WAY: How to Become a Bold and Empathic Leader (WILEY, December 2, 2021). Drawing on his experience studying the styles of military, corporate, and spiritual giants like Jack Welch, Peter Drucker and Pope Francis, he gleans seven lessons for executives, managers, and other business leaders.

THE JOE BIDEN WAY explains what the leaders of any diverse group of people need to do to boost performance and productivity in a rapidly changing world. Touching on themes that have come to define the Biden presidency—overcoming adversity, embracing diversity, and demonstrating competence—Krames uses Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers to explain early successes and the role of experience in his presidency. 

 Mike Papantonio is a senior partner of Levin Papantonio, one of the country’s largest plaintiffs’ law firms. He has aggressively taken on Big Pharma, tobacco, weapon manufacturers, and the automobile industry, among other bastions of corporate greed, and uses his own cases as springboards for his novels. His latest release, Inhuman Trafficking, is based on the case about human trafficking that he’s working on to test in Virginia and is a fast-paced thriller in the tradition of John Grisham, Joseph Finder, and John Lescroart. 

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For Nick “Deke” Deketomis, going where angels fear to tread in waging legal battles has long been a way of life. As managing partner for one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ law firms, Deke has gone toe to toe with some of the largest corporations in the world. His firm specializes in the tough, even quixotic, cases that few lawyers would dare to take on. Like human trafficking.

 Deke’s target this time is Welcome Mat Hospitality, a firm known for its truck stops and lodging throughout the United States. What Welcome Mat doesn’t advertise is the human trafficking—for sex work and slave labor—going on at many of its properties. For the sake of better profits, Welcome Mat’s ownership has turned a blind eye to this lucrative enterprise.

 As invested as Deke is in the case, though, it takes on even greater urgency when the past comes calling with word that his fifteen-year-old goddaughter, Lily Reyes, is missing. When Deke learns that Lily has fallen prey to a notorious trafficker, his personal and professional worlds converge. For his goddaughter to survive, Deke must prevail not only in the legal arena but outside of it.

 Scott DeLuzio and his brother Steven were deployed by the Army National Guard to Afghanistan in 2010.  Both were fighting just miles away from each other on August 22, 2010, when Scott was told Steven had just been killed.  Moments later, Scott was thrust into battle against the Taliban, who had just taken his brother’s life.

By telling his story, Scott hopes to reach out to those veterans still struggling with the impact of war.  His message is one of hopefulness that can potentially reverse the stigma that often accompanies those who seek mental health treatment. Scott continues to give back through his Drive On Podcast (https://driveonpodcast.com/), which reminds veterans they are not alone in their struggles and provides resources to those searching for help. 

 Teamwork is hard because there is no magic formula or step-by-step procedure to ensure results. Think of a programmer asked to develop new features for a cell phone: they write new code, test the code, troubleshoot problems encountered, revise the code, and repeat the testing process until the new features work without problems. Similarly, a team leader asked to deliver specified outcomes develops a plan, runs team meetings, troubleshoots problems encountered, revises the plan, and repeats until the team outcomes are achieved. The difference is that a programmer has tools to help streamline troubleshooting, while team leaders do not—until now. 

 Dr. Valerie Patrick, President of Fulcrum Connection LLC, is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and professional speaker. Dr. Patrick is a PhD chemical engineer with 25 years of corporate experience leading technical and strategic initiatives to identify and deliver new sources of organizational value at Bayer and Monsanto. Dr. Patrick has over 10,000 hours of corporate experience as a team leader and is a Certified Creative Problem Solving Facilitator through the Creative Problem Solving Group. 

Richard Williams, PhD. served at Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 1980 to 2007, finally serving as the Director for Social Science with the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.  After leaving FDA, he was the Vice President for Policy Research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  He Has also been on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, Board Chairman for the Center for Truth in Science, and board member of the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences. 

FIXING FOOD breaks open the FDA and tells the stories of what really happens behind closed doors.  Through these stories, Dr. Williams  explains why one out of every six Americans gets food poisoning every year (CDC).  In fact, every year, at least for the last decade, FDA cites this same number to justify their budget request to Congress. It also discusses why two thirds of us are overweight or obese and why, by 2030, despite FDA’s nutrition labeling, one out of every two Americans is expected to be obese. 

William Damon is professor at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.  William Damon notes: There is a paradox at the heart of a life review. The ability to look forward in a confident, well-directed manner requires looking back in an intentional and open way. We cannot separate the past, present, and future like walled-off compartments on a moving train. As Faulkner said, “The past isn’t dead; it isn’t even past.” To be fully alive now and in the future, we must realize that our past, far from being dead, is in many ways a living concern and has many life-giving lessons to teach us.”

Additional Information:

 https://spectator.org/why-everyone-could-benefit-from-a-life-review/