True Greatness: Mastering the Inner Game of Business Success - Paperback

by Kevin Elko (Author), William Beausay (Author)

In this revelatory book, authors Kevin Elko and Bill Beausay recount inspiring examples from sports and business to teach you how to live a profoundly satisfying life.

Greatness is a deliberate act of finding the best in yourself and making choices from a different mindset. It's a way of seeing a special kind of "more" in your life. And while achieving greatness inevitably leads to profit and phenomenal professional success, when you realize your best self in one area of life, the results inevitably can be experienced in all the others.

True Greatness contains a powerful step-by-step process showing you how to:

• develop a clear idea of who you are and what you want;
• cultivate a positive new orientation from which better choices can be made;
• generate action in yourself and create unusual impact on others;
• overcome information overload; and create a built-in mechanism to generate this sort of greatness consistently.

Whereas "excellence" is about becoming the best you can be at one thing, greatness moves you past routine success and onto a new plateau where your achievements are more meaningful and satisfying.

True Greatness points the way to a complete life--lived more deeply and filled with joy, passion, success, excitement, and peace.

Front Jacket

With Wall Street in shambles and the market geniuses toppled from their thrones and scorned for exceptional greed, one thing is certain: There's got to be a better way to measure success. Perhaps not surprising, it is beyond the relentless pursuit of money and possessions that lie the keys to a more meaningful and satisfying life. But how do we get there? "True Greatness" helps you make the seismic mental shifts that unlock a hidden store of inner resources that everyone has within them--such as passion, kindness, and selflessness: qualities that spiritual leaders and philosophers have long known are essential for a happy, successful life. When you develop these qualities in yourself more fully and bring them to the workplace, you vastly improve your performance, your sense of self-worth, and the well-being of everyone around you. And it's that, more than the drumbeat for more sales, more wins, more cutthroat competitive tactics, that propels us into the realm of true greatness. Packed with both contemporary and historical examples from diverse fields--sports, business, religion, innovation, and more--this unique book brings to light a simple yet life-altering five-step plan for awakening and strengthening your inner greatness. You'll learn how to: - Discover and tap into your true passions to reveal where you should be focusing your energy. - Point yourself and others toward a growth-oriented process, rather than merely praising for outcomes. - Stay in the selfless zone, where focus, intentionality, and alignment emerge--and negatives such as fear, anger, jealousy, and backbiting are quickly resolved. - Inspire others by generating inspiration in yourself and transmitting it as energy all around you. Countless business books have told you how to manage your employees, improve your product, and hone your skills--how to focus on outcomes. But "True Greatness" does something else altogether. It shows you how you can consciously change yourself, and just watch the outward manifestations flow from the inner readjustment of your values and priorities. Reach for the higher plateau of true greatness, and live a life filled with passion, joy, purpose, and peace. Kevin Elko is a human performance consultant who is widely known for his work with successful sports teams, such as the Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as with Fortune 1000 companies, including Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch. He lives in Presto, Pennsylvania. Bill Beausay is a successful author and trainer. He lives in Houston.

Back Jacket

We don't leave our hearts at the door when we enter the workplace. We bring our dreams, our fears, our jealousies, our passions--an entire lifetime of overt emotions and hidden life scripts--to perform often tedious tasks for the sake of a paycheck. It's a recipe for both an unproductive workplace and an unfulfilling life. And it's time to build better ones. "True Greatness" helps you tap into your best self and bring it to the forefront of everything you do, whether it's employee motivation, personal relationships, creative problem-solving, leadership development, and more. By focusing on and honing your inner essence of greatness, you unlock qualities such as sharing, encouraging, selflessness, optimism, curiosity, and courage--qualities that not only lead to phenomenal success in business, but ensure a more profoundly satisfying life for yourself and everyone around you. Drawing on powerful, life-changing lessons from sports figures, business executives, spiritual leaders, and others--and complete with web links to audio lessons that review and strengthen the message--this inspiring book gives you a transformative five-step process for developing your inner resources and creating a zone of true greatness for your professional and personal life.

Author Biography

Kevin Elko (Presto, PA) is a human performance consultant who is well known for his work with successful sports teams such as the Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Penguins, and New Jersey Devils, as well as with Fortune 1000 companies including Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch.

Bill Beausay (Columbus, OH) is a successful author and speaker.