Trade-Up!

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Silicon Valley wunderkind Rayona Sharpnack has been aschoolteacher, tennis champion, manager and player for a women'sprofessional softball team, and a celebrity who coaches some of themost successful leaders in business. Trade Up! draws onSharpnack&'s experience, as well as stories of successfulleaders she has worked with, to reveal how leaders limit themselvesby holding on to ideas or assumptions about ourselves--whatshe calls your "context" --that are no longervalid. Trade Up! outlines the 5 steps to help leaders gainawareness of these assumptions and trade up from limiting beliefsand behaviors to those that will help them change the world. The 5steps are * Reveal your context: what do you believe about yourself?What holds you back? How do you impact others? * Own your context: take stock of the upside and downsideof your context, and examine the intended and unintendedconsequences of it! * Design a new context that gets you what you want: beginby asking yourself "how good are you willing to have life be?" * Sustain your new context: develop new practices to getthis new context to stick! * Activate your context and engage with the world: moveout of your own concerns and into partnership and community withothers to help change the world around you!

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"Rayona Sharpnack is uniquely qualified to shake up yourpersonal and professional paradigm with her new book TradeUp! At her Institute for Women's Leadership, Rayona has helpedan entire generation of top women leaders to find their bestselves. Now we can all benefit from Rayona's methods, her ideas andher wisdom. Trade Up! will leave you invigorated, inspiredand ready for the most meaningful years of yourlife."-- Carol Evans, CEO, Working Mother Magazine "I highly recommend Trade Up! for everyleader--from MBA students to seasoned CEOs. In this bookRayona demonstrates her gift for making the 5 most important skillsof sustaining great leadership come alive!"--Carol Bartz, chairmanof the board, Autodesk "Rayona has a powerful way of cutting to the chase andproviding a meaningful context for leadership success. Her messageis quite clear: leadership is not for the faint of heart. You mustjump in with both feet and commit if you truly want to make adifference. If you're looking for ways to up the ante in terms ofyour leadership capacity, this book is for you."--LarryDowney, CEO Teva Neuroscience "Trade Up! is a leadership book that belongs ineveryone's hands--CEO, COO, manager, or those of younavigating the crossroads in your everyday life. It's cogent, warm,inspirational and pragmatic. I unequivocally recommend RayonaSharpnack and her work to anyone who is interested in living a lifeof purpose, calling, and being a contribution to others."--RichardStrozzi-Heckler, author, The Leadership Dojo andBeing Human at Work "If you are ready to soar to new heights this book willprovide you with the tools, insight and methodology to ascendbeyond your imagination."--Angela Airall, chief learningofficer, Girl Scouts USA "Essential reading! In today's intense 24/7environment, we have to know ourselves or we'll get eatenalive. Rayona provides a primer for developing profoundself-knowledge."--Sally Helgesen, author, The FemaleAdvantage and Thriving in 24/7
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