Book description
A guide to leading with your best self, which in turn drives others to be their best.
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how…
Why read it?
1 author picked Lift as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a small “L” leadership book, and I love its ideas and its examples. When I read it for the first time, it gave me a new perspective on the very personal nature of leadership. The book was jammed (it still is!) with great insights about the connection between what is inside of me and how I could lift and strengthen other people when I lead.
All I have to do when I once again take a look at this book is to read the table of contents–purpose-centered, internally-directed, other-focused, externally open, positive force–and I am reminded that this…
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Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
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