Blumenthal - Be the Hero: Three Powerful Ways to Overcome Challenges in Work and Life (A BK life book)

More Praise for Be the Hero

This book is quick, easy, and life changing, showing how it is within your power to choose how you perceive and respond to the events in your life.

Sid Chapon, Senior Vice President/Director,
Leadership and Organizational Development, Leo Burnett Worldwide

The world needs more heroes. That hero journey can best be started by absorbing the compelling messages in Be the Hero a must-read book for our troubled times.

Phil Zimbardo, PhD, author of The Lucifer Effect

Noah Blumenthal is a gifted storyteller who shows us how our own stories change our self-perception and our personal power. Be the Hero offers a friendly voice and practical tools to build hope and optimism, strength and flexibility, and consciousness about how our language shapes our beliefs.

Karlin Sloan, CEO, Karlin Stone & Company,
and author of Smarter, Faster, Better

It has been said that how an individual deals with adversity reveals that persons true nature. Be the Hero will help you bring out your best, even in the worst of times.

Warner Burke, PhD, Chair, Department of Organization and
Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University

Blumenthals message is powerful for all who want to make a positive difference in their lives as well as the lives of others. At Southwest Airlines, we embrace messages that support our values and mission; Blumenthals message does this exceptionally well. This will be a tool I will recommend to my customers.

Graham Vandergrift, Team Leader,
University for People, Southwest Airlines

Be the Hero offers powerful lessons and reminders that each of our thoughts and actions impacts our effectiveness and our relationships with everyone around us.

Gwyneth Meeks, Vice President,
Organizational Development, MTV Networks

Noah Blumenthal knows that the story of our life success is written one thought and one conversation at a time. In his fable Be the Hero, Noah has created not only a book but a user-friendly process to ensure every story we tell leads to a life of success with a very happy ending.

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD, host, Books That Matter

Change your story, change your life! Noah Blumenthal has written a parable and reference tool that will enable you to unleash your heroism on the world. It is a life-changing read. I highly recommend it.

Victoria Halsey, PhD, Vice President, Applied Learning, The Ken Blanchard
Companies, and coauthor of The Hamster Revolution

Be the Hero is more than a book; its a compass that points the way to your better self. Blumenthal does a masterful job of making profoundly important ideas accessible and achievable, proving that you too can Be the Hero!

Bill Treasurer, author of Courage Goes to Work

Hero or victim? Its all in the perspective. Be the Hero works brilliantly to enable you to see the heroic and victim stories in your own life. Noahs message to make yourself the hero is one that everyone could use.

Matt Langdon, founder, The Hero Workshop

Our greatest heroes are firefighters, humanitarian aid workers, and leaders of nations and coworkers, parents, and neighbors who help us survive thorny challenges of everyday life. We all know a hero when we see one. Be the Hero teaches us how to become one.

Carol Metzker, coauthor of Appreciative Intelligence

Rarely does a book come along that so effectively enables an individual to respond to lifes challenges. In my thirty years of coaching, leading, and mentoring, it is unusual to find such a simple yet effective approach that can make such a significant difference in how people live their lives.

Ross Tartell, PhD, Director, Team Leader, Pfizer Inc.

Be the Hero carries a simple yet powerful message that lives with you long after you finish reading it. The wisdom shared is the fundamental and foundational lesson of all wisdom traditions. Dont wait: read it now!

Stewart Levine, author of Getting to Resolution

Extremely useful and practical. Noah Blumenthal has given us a profoundly simple way to make important and lasting changes in our work and our lives.

Ethan Schutz, President, The Schutz Company

Practical, enlightening, and inspiring! Noah shows us the right questions to ask for becoming heroes in our organizations and our own lives. Be the Hero should be on everyones A list.

Marilee Adams, PhD, author of
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

Be the Hero

THREE POWERFUL WAYS TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES IN WORK AND LIFE

NOAH BLUMENTHAL

Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith

Be the Hero

Copyright 2009 by Noah Blumenthal
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First Edition
Hardcover print edition ISBN 978-1-60509-000-9
PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-57675-999-8
IDPF e-book ISBN 978-1-57675-342-2

2010-2

Cover design: Clive Jacobson
Design and production: Detta Penna
Copyediting: Sandra Craig
Proofreading: Judith Johnstone

To my father,
who taught me to see the world
through a heros eyes

And my mother,
who encouraged me to act like a hero
no matter the obstacles

Every once in a while a book comes along that strikes right at the core of a problem and brings a solution. We all have patterns of thinking and behavior that sabotage our effectiveness, success, and happiness. Noah Blumenthal believes that we can replace these negative patterns with a more positive approach what he calls the way of the everyday hero. He shows that everyone can be a hero when they choose the right path, even when it is difficult to do so. Around this concept, Blumenthal spins a tale that brings to life the lessons, techniques, and tools anyone can use to become an everyday hero.