Carly Fiorina - Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential

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Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential

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Do not desire to fit in.

Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

GWENDOLYN BROOKS

F OR MANY YEARS, what I knew about Carly Fiorina came mostly from reading about her in various business publications, hearing about her in the news, or seeing her in interviews. Still, from this casual and distant observation, my impression of her was that she was smart, tough, bold, controversial, and not afraid of a fight.

Then, one day I was asked to colead an off-site leadership workshop with Carly for a small group of leaders from across the United Statesand my impression of her was broadened by real-life experience.

As I had surmised, she was very smart, experienced, straightforward, and resilient. But what came through repeatedly during the few days we worked together was her humanity. As we fielded questions, worked through leadership quandaries presented by the attendees, diagnosed problems, and crafted solutions together, I was impressed by her deep sense of empathy. It was not only clear that she understood the difficult issues these leaders were facing, but she also felt for them and was able to connect with them.

What Im referring to is not just soft-hearted sympathy or care for the individual. It was more her capacity to truly understand these leadersand to let them know she understoodwhile also joining together with them to find a way forward. Said another way, she put the head together with the heart. She brought real answers and proven principles that helped these leaders see beyond their confusion or their feeling of being stuckto see what was possible and achievable. Her intelligence, toughness, and candor were in no way incompatible with her empathy. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything worked together to move people forward to where they wanted to go.

When I read Find Your Way, I was similarly impressed. In these pages, I found all the same attributes I had observed in Carly in that initial workshop and in subsequent opportunities weve had to work together on other projects and leadership intensives. I saw the same combination of empathy and deep, practical experience in how things work. I saw audacious goal-setting as well as level-headed solutions for How am I going to make it through the week? kinds of problems.

As you read, you will feel understood, as if Carly were speaking directly to you. You will know that she has been there and identifies with what you are facing. And she will show you not only a way out of your current dilemma, but also a path forward toward the desired future reality that youve been wanting to pursue but perhaps havent known how.

As a psychologist and a leadership consultant, I could not read this book without my own technical mind kicking in. Although Carly doesnt focus on the psychological, neurological, biological, relational, systemic, emotional, social, and mental science behind her methods, I can assure you it is all there. As she tells stories and explains principles, I can see behind her advice an operating system grounded in the best science and research on human performance. I could write an entire commentary on each chapter, explaining how if you will do the simple things she suggests, your neurochemistry will change and engage the parts of your brain that have been stalled or not working to full capacity before now. How your interactions with other people will move them from being obstacles to what youre wanting to achieve to being helpful partnersand actually change their ability to perform. How the creative mind that you need to solve problems will finally wake up, and how you will find yourself with capacities you never realized you had. How your own emotional regulation will change, propelling you toward outcomes you havent seen before. Carlys simple four-step problem-solving model alone will move you forward in unbelievable ways.

But enough about the wonky nerd stuff behind the curtain. As you read this book, what matters is that you will get to experience firsthand the helpful, proven wisdom and deep care that I have seen in working alongside Carly in leadership development.

I will close this brief introduction with perhaps the greatest endorsement I could give. I have two daughters, and I am not what you would call a controlling father. I believe in granting them great freedom and autonomy. But in this case, Im putting my foot down: They will read this book.

Dr. Henry Cloud

Los Angeles, California

A Word on Your One Wild and Precious Life

I WAS A MISERABLE first-year law-school student, suffering yet another massive migraine, standing in the shower in the upstairs bathroom of my parents house on an otherwise uneventful Sunday morning, when the revelation hit me: I could just quit.

Quit?

Surely I had that wrong.

I couldnt quit.

My parents were well acquainted with struggle in life, and they were determined that their circumstances would not define them. My mother, the only child of an auto assembly-line worker, had lost her own mother at age ten. She grew up with the proverbial evil stepmother. She was a bright student, a valedictorian, but her father refused to allow her to attend college. So she ran away from home at eighteen and somehow made her way to Texas to join the Womens Army Corps. She eventually became the secretary to the commanding officer at the military base, which is how she met my father.

Mom was a richly talented artist who mostly put her art aside while she poured herself into her three childrendetermined they would have the education, the experiences, and the opportunities she had not.

My father grew up with a noticeable physical deformity in a tiny Texas town. When he was thirteen, his father and brother died within nine months of each other, and his mother never fully recovered from the shock and grief. After World War II, he went to the wrong law schoolUniversity of Texas, before anyone had ever heard of itdefinitely not Harvard or Yale. He succeeded in law by dint of sheer hard work and intellectual prowess. He eventually became dean of Duke University Law School, a deputy US attorney general, and a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He taught his children that they would succeed if they just kept going when the going got tough.