Amy Posey - Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers

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WILD SUCCESS

Wild Success is a two-fer. Its both a rollicking, unforgettable read and a valuable guide to the qualities that produce bold, decisive, resilient leadership. These stories of explorers and adventurers will inspire you to dream big. And Posey and Vallelys astute advice will help you turn those dreams into reality.

Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive

This book will leave you in awe of the accomplishments of this amazing group of adventurers and what they learned about themselves in the process. Their stories and ordeals revealed some common traits and characteristics: passion, pain, perseverance, resilience, grit, and sheer determination. Using neuroscience as a basis for their analysis of these behaviors and traits, Amy and Kevin provide us more normal people with the tools and tips we can use to navigate the challenges we face in both our personal and professional lives. Many leadership books leave your emotional tank drained; this one has your emotional tank full to overflowing. An awesome read.

Richard Walker, former General Manager, HP Consumer PC Business Unit and former CEO, Zero Motorcycles

You can write what youve lived, or you can do a bunch of researchbut the best books of all, like Amy Posey and Kevin Vallelys Wild Success, do both. From corporate boardrooms to big waves, perilous glaciers, and lofty summits, Posey and Vallely share their unique perspective on how great leaders make the right decisions and shake off seemingly insurmountable setbacks.

Alex Hutchinson, Sweat Science columnist for Outside magazine and New York Times bestselling author of Endure

If we waited until everything was perfect, wed never start. Wild Success is an inspiration to anyone looking to reach their full potential in business or life. Kevin Vallely and Amy Poseys collection of stories will spark readers to find the courage to take the first step and the grit to stay on the journey.

Rick Hansen, Paralympic athlete and founder of the Rick Hansen Foundation

Inspiring, educational, and relevant, Wild Success is a brilliant combination of living at the edge of human performance, real-world application, and fascinating insights into our mind. Its both personal and ubiquitous in its narrative. From the start of each chapter, the stories of adventure and perseverance draw you in and then subtly shift to issues that impact us all... purpose, adversity, resilience, risk, balance. Amy and Kevin have managed to craft the CliffsNotes version of how to live a successful and fulfilling life. This is a not a book that you read once, but one that you refer to... continuously.

Shawn Seamans, President, McKesson Life Sciences

This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to get ahead in business! It kept me captivated from end to end. Being both an adventurer and an entrepreneur I found it especially captivating and useful. There are some excellent lessons that I will be applying to my own business strategies as we continue growing our own company.

Colin Angus, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year who completed the first human-powered journey around the world

These stories of adventure, grounded with respected academic and scientific research, provide inspiration and guidance to those interested in enhancing their understanding and practice of leadership. It is a valuable reminder of the lessons we can take from individuals who encourage us to question our own limitations and reach our fullest potential and possibilities.

Robert N. Thomas, PhD, Professor of Leadership, Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

The business world is ruthless to those who are not prepared to handle its ever-changing tides. Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely have marvelously connected the important lessons from adventuring in the great wilderness to achieving success and becoming a solid business leader. It will open your mind and push you to think of how you can take control of yourself and learn a delicate discipline in pushing toward success. What can save your life in the world of adventure can propel you to greatness in business.

Manal AlBayat, Chief Community Engagement Officer, Expo 2020 Dubai

What a brilliant move to embed business and management principles into extreme adventure stories, making it more likely to remember them. Enduring principles emerge when humans are severely tested.

Sam Sullivan, Canadian politician, current MLA for Vancouver-False Creek, 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia

The connections between the adventure world and the business world are clear, concise, and plain to see. An adventurers experience can help instruct every leader to perform at their best.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, described by the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds greatest living explorer

A beautiful piece of work that allows each of us to see how to leverage our own vulnerabilities and shortcomings to transform our leadership potential. Wild Success somehow manages to strike that delicate balance of being both intellectually and practically compellingand you come out inspired to venture into unchartered territory to up your leadership game.

Sarah Gretczko, Chief Learning and Skills Officer, Mastercard

Wild Success is an adventure book, a personal development book, and a life and business manual. Follow these outstanding real-life adventurers as they row the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, summit Everest, undertake polar exploration, circumnavigate Antarctica, and even pioneer personal jet-propelled flight. Learn how they apply lessons in neuroscience, growth mindset, and perseverance to survive and how you can apply these lessons and achieve your Wild Success in business and life.

Richard Bailey, President and Chief Transformation Officer, HP Inc.

Whether on the water, in the forest, crossing the tundra, or climbing to the summit, wild nature is good for our bodies and minds. Posey, Vallely, and a team of adventurous souls expertly guide leaders and readers into the heart of their own wild creativity, focused purpose, and peak performance in life, work, and play. This is extreme sports made powerfully practical.

Dr. Wallace J Nichols, author of the New York Times bestseller Blue Mind

Wild Success has a fresh perspective on achieving peak performance. It weaves the principles of success in adventuring together with practical outcomes in the business world, drawing on parallels that make for refreshing reading and insights.

Arthur Hu, Chief Information Officer, Lenovo

Looking for an edge? Read Wild Success cover to cover. Twice. Why? Because Kevin and Amy have codified what it takes to excel at the edge of human capacity. Fascinating, accessible, and just plain fun, this book will be your guide as you embark on your next audacious business (ad)venture.

Dr. Greg Wells, PhD, Performance Physiologist, www.drgregwells.com

It is not often that you get your hands on a life-transforming book, one that somehow manages to be at once inspiring, exhilarating, and educational, but Wild Success, by Kevin Vallely and Amy Posey, is one of them. Taking readers to the most extreme places, the book gives deeply personal accounts of how great adventurers overcome monumental challenges; but then, using brilliant analysis and research, it goes further, letting us all understand the deep dynamic of resilience and creativity. Leadership books are all too often vanity exercises of one-dimensional, successful people, but the stories in