Description
Book SynopsisSilicon 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how leaders limit themselves by holding on to ideas or assumptions about ourselveswhat she calls your context that are no longer valid.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
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Reveal your context: what do you believe about yourself? What holds you back? How do you impact others?
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Own your context: take stock of the upside and downside of your context, and examine the intended and unintended consequences of it!
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Design a new context that gets
Table of Contents
Introduction: Beyond Business as Usual 1
1. It’s All About You 35
Step 1. Reveal Your Prevailing Context
2. From Bug Soup to Butterfl y 65
Step 2. Own Your Context
3. I Am the Author of My Own Story 103
Step 3. Design a New Context
4. Practice Leads to Mastery 125
Step 4. Sustain Your New Context
5. Traversing the Spiral 157
Step 5. Engage Your New Context
Epilogue: Ruminations and New Beginnings 193
Acknowledgments 197
About the Author 199
Index 201
