Dean Del Sesto - Shift Your Thinking for Success: 77 Ways to Win at Work and in Life

This book is a road map and manual for any person looking for the practical tools to pivot their life and career. Dean masterfully explores the internal conversations that frame our engagement with others, and then shows how you can shift both the internal conversations and the resulting changes in your external context in a meaningful and planned way. Deans matter-of-fact style of addressing key issues helps you shift both your mindset and skill set in ways that will set you up for success in your next big pivot.

Hendre Coetzee , CEO, Center for Advanced Coaching; international trainer and speaker

While many management books are about tactics and techniques, Shift Your Thinking for Success is more about who you are and less about what you do. Deans clever and creative wit will help you discover viewpoints, mental shifts, and strategic behaviors that will help you build relationships that will lead you toward greater success in both life and work. Dean is spot-on! You are your own brand, so make it a great and memorable one. Who doesnt want to be more successful in work and life? Dean has the answers... seventy-seven to be exact.

Milan Yerkovich , founder, Relationship 180; marriage counselor; co-author of How We Love and How We Love Our Kids ; cohost of the nationally syndicated counseling talk show New Life Live

Deans book Shift Your Thinking for Success is a powerful book for all professionals. His work is so eloquently written, and I highly recommend this book for your personal development library.

Lisa Caprelli , radio host and bestselling author of Color Your Message: The Art of Digital Marketing & Social Media

Dean Del Sesto cares about people: how they show up, how they think, how they are perceived, how they succeed. I know because hes helped me and my family in numerous ways. This book will cause you to think about the you who shows up to the world, and it will challenge you to be a better personthe one you really want to be. I know youll grow as you read Shift Your Thinking for Success .

Greg Leith , CEO, Convene CEO Forum

As you strive to become more accomplished in business, the book you hold in your hands will become a true North of sorts. This book isnt a how-to, it is a book of truths that reminds you of who you really are, what you have to offer, and how you plan to maximize life and business. Shift Your Thinking for Success brings self-awareness and confidence that will put you in the top 1 percent of successful people in business if you apply what you read.

Noah Elias , entrepreneur; author of # Fearhunters

In the modern marketplace our reputation can rise and fallwith life-altering results. Years of steady effort can be thwarted by a succession of miscues that turn momentum from the path of success to the dustbin of defeat. If managing our own brand is mission-critical for business professionals, its equally crucial for any serious contender who understands the underlying importance of their own personal stature in the unforgiving world of public image and earned reputation. Within these pages, Dean Del Sesto packs in consulting worth thousands that could help you experience success thats priceless. Follow his counsel and win!

Bob Shank , CEO, The Masters Program and Priority Living; author of Life Mastery

Shift Your Thinking for Success over-delivers for anyone wanting to better themselves in business. From the moment you start reading, this book shows you how to think more confidently and boldly about every aspect of your business life and does so in a way that is simple and easy to read, yet hits hard in every area of business. Whoever reads this will be a different person at the end of doing so.

Beth Ganem , CEO, Organizational Development, The Ganem Group

Want immediate improvement in your work and life? Dean cuts through the self-help noise and offers you a gift that hits home instantly. Then his ideas get better with age. Highly recommended.

Dane Sanders , founder, Fastermind.co; author, Fast Track Photographer and The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan

Youll quickly realize in reading Shift Your Thinking for Success that Dean is a different, disruptive thinker who looks at everything through the lens of realistic change. If you don t want to grow and move to new levels in your life, this book is not for you. By its nature it is designed to drive the reader to reach their full potential in life and in business, and it will do so in a simple, pragmatic, and laser-like manner.

Rick McCarthy , CEO coach; author of the book series Defining Moments: Hearing from God During Faith- Based Travels

A wise friend, Alan Kay, inventor of the personal computer, once said that context is worth 80 intelligence quotient points. Now, another wise friend, Dean Del Sesto, has written a breakthrough book providing context that should boost our emotional quotient at least that much. Business is about relationships, and if youre looking for a read that will help improve your ability to relate, connect, and impact relationships positively, this will do it in abundance.

Paul B. Carroll , veteran journalist and bestselling author; editor-in-chief at Insurance Thought Leadership

While most books are written about a single topic, Shift Your Thinking for Success contains a diversity of brief points, many of which have the potency of a whole book. Deans ability to synthesize principles into actionable steps has made a remarkable difference in my professional life. He gets it, perhaps because hes lived it. In my opinion, Dean is one of the great communicators of modern times, and Im sure youll agree.

Lauren Ellermeyer , president, Beyond Fifteen Communications

Although an endorsement from the wife of the author may seem a bit biased, I can honestly tell you after proofing the first draft of the book that my confidence level was raised dramatically. I began to see things differently and I made some radical life decisions that I probably would not have made had I not read Shift Your Thinking for Success . It was life-changing for me, and although Im married to this wonderful man, I will reference this book often and will recommend it to everyone I meet.

Kitt Del Sesto , happy wife of Dean Del Sesto

Dean has artfully crafted a wise, generous, and graceful portrait of the critical ways we can choose to show up in life to make a significant difference. Profound and valuable Ahas! await his readers and will propel them, and others, forward. Im excited to share this with many leaders.

Todd Kemp , principal and leadership coach, NorthWise Group

Shift Your Thinking for Success is another one of Deans poignant and original transformational works! With the power of a freight train, it assaults every attitude, behavior, and belief that doesnt work in our business lives and provides alternative thinking that will radically transform your life. Page by page, it encourages us to be better, so we can find greater success and fulfillment at work and in life.

Daniel L. Tocchini , founder, D3 Digital; author of US and In the Twinkle of an I