Engel Jacob M. - The prosperous leader: how smart people achieve success

the PROSPEROUS LEADER

How Smart People Achieve Success

JACOB M. ENGEL

with Jeffrey A. Krames

NEW YORK

the PROSPEROUS LEADER

How Smart People Achieve Success

2015 Jacob M. Engel.

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Prosperity is an interesting topic to address today, especially with so many people focused on survival, with so much talk about scarcity, and with the reality that our future depends on our unique individual abilities. Jacob Engel provides us with an important look at the skills necessaryand how to acquire themto create our own prosperity while staying true to our responsibilities as managers and leaders.

In practice I have found that people and organizations create their own destiny based on their style and focus. Simply put, people and organizations fail, they succeed, or in rare (too rare) situations, they are able to prosper. In this book Jacob takes the time necessary to assist you in your journey toward achieving prosperity.

To fully appreciate prosperity, its important to have a clear definition of prosperity. As defined by Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, it is the state of being successful or thriving. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes other factors to varying degrees, such as happiness and health. As we better understand what prosperity means, we can appreciate what it takes to achieve prosperity in our lives and our businesses.

How then do we avoid the failure that many have experienced?

How do we achieve success as some have?

How do we aspire to and then achieve the prosperity few do?

As you read Jacob Engels book, you will come across a variety of models and have numerous aha moments. The models will prove useful as they provide the structure, organization, and ability to achieve prosperity with new insights and skills. The aha moments will help to crystallize your thoughts into understandable, bite-size pieces. Its that moment when the light bulb goes on and you finally see what had been there all along, but you now understand. Just as when the blurry becomes the clear in an eye exam, you will have a new vision to move toward.

Failure, success, and prosperity as outcomes can come from a business model that I developed through my work with entrepreneurs and their organizations (See ).

The Six Cs of communication in organizational growth and development show a clear correlation between the style of the entrepreneur and whether or not prosperity can be realistically achieved.

Basically, organizations that have internal conflict and competition will fail. Those that can attain internal compliance and communication succeed. And those that internally cooperate and collaborate will prosper.

Prosperity is achievable if we are willing to accept accountability and are able to learn new skills. Jacob Engel has done an outstanding service by providing this book to each of us. Please read it, adapt its principles to your situation, and prosper.

Roy Cammarano, Author of Entrepreneurial Transitions:
From Entrepreneurial Genius to Visionary Leadership

As a religious person, I am indebted to my creator, without whom nothing is possible and with whom everything is possible.

I owe a great debt to my parents. My father, who was a Holocaust survivor and came to this country without family, language, or money created his own prosperity. (See profiles of a role model). He went on to build a huge enterprise with his surviving family and empowered others to do the same. But he died in his prime, at age sixty-five. My mother is still my biggest fan. In our daily phone calls, she wants to know if Im teaching today. She avidly reads my articles and wants to know when my book is being published. So here it is.

I want to thank Ruth Lichtenstein, Rachel Roth, and their great staff for giving me the opportunity to publish my articles in their Hamodia weekly newspaper and the excellent feedback I got from their readership worldwide.

I thank my partners (M. K. and D. G.) for supporting this initiative and Robert Kaplan, Shayna Horowitz, and Jenny Astwood (graphics) for developing and creating the Create Prosperity idea, logo, and tagline.

Special thanks to Michael Schmutter and my assistant M. Smith for their great assistance in helping write and editing these articles.

In closing, I would like to mention my gratitude to my mentor and coach, Roy Cammarano, who has written a beautiful foreword, but more importantly has given me the courage and encouragement to write this book. Thanks, Roy.

In my search for a business author who could help evaluate what parts of the book needed reworking and what was missing, I came across a greatly inspiring and world-renowned author, Jeffrey Krames. Jeffrey and his crew have undertaken to read my manuscript chapter by chapter and have added valuable additions to the book. Jeffrey has been very kind and gracious in allowing me to add his name to the book, for which I thank him.

I want to thank Alan Lovins, PhD for reading and adding valuable insights.

Finding a Publisher is no easy feat for a first time author. In my search I was very fortunate to come across the website of Morgan James Publishing which its founder David Hancock, calls the Entrepreneurs publisher. David, Jim Howard (his publisher), and his team of Margo and Bethany, have done an excellent job for which I thank them for!

Lastly and most importantly, I owe a great amount of gratitude to my wife, children, and grandchildren.

And thank you, the reader.

I was recently in West Palm Beach, and while standing in line at a health spa,