Robert S. Murray - It’s Already Inside: Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success

ITS ALREADY INSIDE

This book is full of the wisdom needed to be an effective leader. Wisdom that reflects real life lessons, many of them very hard ones. Perhaps you are an aspiring leader? Or perhaps you have been in a leadership position for awhile, but could stand to be reminded of some of the lessons you may have forgotten? Either way, this book is a valuable read.

Don Wright, Ph.D., CEO of British Columbia Institute of Technology

Reading this book was just as inspiring as meeting Bob in real life! He leads you with humor and wisdom to a world class level of Leadership. Not only with the brain but most importantly from the Heart.

Willem de Jonge, Supply Chain Director of Heineken

Robert Murrays book Its Already Inside is an engaging and humorous leadership book written by a true business veteran. Beyond vision and values, Murray delivers practical leadership advice through accounts of his own unbelievable professional experiences. His remarkable stories beg the question, How would I have handled that? His self-reflection questions deepen the learning and will help you apply his ideas to your own leadership practices. A must-read for all emerging leaders!

Caroline de Voest, CEO of Better Your Best Coaching

By combing the advice and lessons of Its Already Inside, applying a reasonable level of competence, and having a willingness to get up, you will both kick-start and sustain a successful and rewarding career for yourself.

Ted Lattimore, CEO (Retired) of Carmanah Technologies

Robert Murray not only teaches the reader how to become a leader, but he teaches how to soar to leadership success. Its Already Inside is entertaining, soul-searching, and unforgettable.

Don Bell, Founder and former COO of WestJet Airlines

If youre still wondering whether you have what it takes to be a leader, well you do, and Robert Murray will make sure you know it. Robert shares stories of his amazing life here to lead you to your own Ahasas hes done for me so many times. He shines a light on the greatness that you already have inside.

Nicole Donnelly, Founder of Baby Legs, CEO of SaltyWaffle.com

This book answers the question What does good look like? In fact this book is a lot of good thingsa primer for developing leaders, of all agesrelevant to entrepreneurial managers, executives, and CEOs. It is full of stories for every manager thats a bit short on battle scars. And it is a good reminder for all of us with the scars! It is an easy read and an easy guide full of understandable references that offer humor and content and it provides opportunity for a broad range of solutions both personal and professional.

Paul Chisholm, CEO of IFD Corporation

Straight forward and honest, a great book. Robert shares his thoughts on life and his personal experiences in an easy and pleasant way. The hard learnings from living and working in foreign countries but also about motivating yourself and others. It is all about you and your attitude towards life, yourself and others.

Bert van der Velde, International CXO, Trainer and Coach

Whether youre in the C-Suite of a Fortune 1000 company, or youre starting from scratch and harnessing your entrepreneurial spirit, you should read this book! Robert has captured the essence of leadership and highlighted it throughout his many personal experiences to show you that its already inside.

Jeffrey Hayzlett, Global Business Celebrity, New York Times Bestselling Author of Running the Gauntlet, Sometime Cowboy

Its Already Inside
Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success

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This book is dedicated to:

Colleen. Proof positive that behind every successful man is a great woman. Great does not even begin to describe how she has always supported me with a never-ending positive outlook on our lives together. She is an amazing mother, partner, and best friend.

Denielle and Grant. Two fantastic young adults who have an amazing life in front of them because of the love and passion they have in their hearts.

Dad. The most innovative man I have ever met. He epitomizes solutions and not problems.

Countless others who help nurture my path.

To all, thank you. I am truly blessed for your love, friendship, and guidance.

I love you all.

A pessimist will blame the wind. An optimist expects it to change. A leader will adjust the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Thank you for picking up this book. It represents thirty years of lessons that you can never get in a classroom. A lot of gray hair and battle scars have gone into the words in the pages in front of you. I hope it becomes your new Pocket Leadership Mentor.

I will say this up front. I write the way I talk. After fifty some years, I am comfortable enough in my own skin to say that. I know all my English teachers and professors will be annoyed and some purists out there may be offended by my sentence structure. So be it. In business and in leadership, it really is about getting the job done. From the head and the heart. And that is where my writing comes from.

This book is laid out in short chapters that are designed to get you thinking about you, your development, and leadership. My recommendation is that you stop after each chapter and look inside to discover where your gaps are and what you need to do to nurture the leader within you so you can achieve more in your career and in life. I have provided a few discovery questions for you at the end of each chapter for this purpose. Please take time to think about them and jot down your answers in the space provided before you go on to the next chapter. My hope is this book and these questions will give you a self-discovery experiencenot just a reading one.