Leveling Up
12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development
- Work, Money & Leadership
- Publisher: W Publishing Group (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Experience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don't need to know all the answers—but you do need to ask the right questions. Whether you're a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there's no one more important to lead than yourself. If you're not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development—and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself. Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions—and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you. Leveling Up helps you focus on the person you're becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include: What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question) What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question) Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question) What's my definition of success? (The Vision Question) Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question) Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question) Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you.
Endorsements (12)
“Great leaders ask great questions. In Leveling Up, Ryan provides 12 fundamental questions that will help you grow as a leader, advance in your influence, and make a difference in the world. Leveling Up is concise, powerful, and timely for any leader at any level.”
“Leveling Up represents a tangible challenge to engage in internal dialog about what matters most in both your personal and professional life. As much as this book aims to inspire personal change, I found it to be a personal call to action through real and relevant questioning. The impact of Ryan’s work is shown by the engagement of those around him. I feel that Leveling Up will leave a seismic wake for individuals, families, corporations, and the greater culture at large.”
“Leveling Up is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to raise their game and take their personal development to the next level! We have used Ryan’s twelve questions in our coaching work with athletes in the NFL, NBA, and with executives at Fortune 500 companies across the country. These pages are filled with incredible wisdom and practical applications for living into the best version of you. Ryan Leak is one of the most gifted communicators of our time. His thought-provoking words in Leveling Up will leave you inspired and excited to chase down your God-given giftedness!”
“People love to talk about ‘leveling up’ but I have never seen it spelled out masterfully like Ryan does! These twelve questions will absolutely change the game in your personal and professional life. It did for me! I keep coming back to them every week to review and sharpen! And the best thing about Ryan, he lives what he preaches. He is the real deal!”
“The twelve questions posed in Ryan Leak’s Leveling Up bring his executive coaching practice directly to the reader. Leaders at any level in pursuit of growth should be asking themselves these questions and discussing with their teams.”
“Ryan has created the perfect playbook of simple, yet profound questions that stop us in our tracks to check ourselves and others along the leadership journey. As someone who develops and accelerates female leaders into executive-level positions, the twelve questions are critical in pumping the gas pedal.”
“As a leader you will get to the point where you can provide unique opportunities for others. It won’t be about giving someone a promotion or a project. It will be about building a ship and letting it go, so that other people will sail on without you. They might steer the ship differently than you, but even from the shore it will be the best ride in your life. Ryan’s framework helps you understand why building that boat is so critical to leveling up your leadership by creating the dream sail for those that are ready for a new journey.”
“Communication is key to the success of any organization and the ability to steer our teams to be self-aware and true self leaders based on Ryan’s fundamental structure, was an appropriate approach to remind them on how valuable their contribution is and how it influences our brand vision.”
“Chasing Failure was the book that sent me on a wild entrepreneurship journey. The pushing past my comfort zone to pursuing my dreams lead me to become recognized as one of the most notable people in travel by Travel + Leisure, run a successful content creation company, and now host my very own adventure travel show with Nat Geo—as a plus size black man you never see anyone that looks like me have a show of this caliber! Leveling Up is a book that I desperately needed personally and professionally in this new season I’ve walked in. Leveling Up is a must-read and just like Chasing Failure, Ryan Leak has brought us a new book that is life-changing!”
“How do you know if you are living as your highest and best self? How do you know if you are truly bringing your A game into all areas of your life? Ryan Leak’s new book inspires you to do just that. You may be terrific in one area of your life but suboptimal in others. Through gentle challenges, guided wisdom, and plenty of inspiration, he leads you through a discovery and self-evaluation that will absolutely up your game and create magic in your life. Grab the book and make your life even better!”
“If you’re a leader looking to challenge yourself and grow in self-awareness and impact, Leveling Up is a great read in helping you take your personal journey to new heights. Ryan asks twelve questions to help shed new light on your actions, your motivations, and the impact you have on others, and couples them with simple steps to help you build a bridge from who you are to who you want to be. As a corporate leader, husband, and father, you can get distracted by the demands of the moment and lose sight of the bigger picture and the real impact you can have on those around you. Ryan does a masterful job of asking the tough questions in challenging you to see yourself through the eyes of others, and to seek input from those who may see things you can’t. As a leader, each day is an opportunity to grow. The book is insightful, thought-provoking, but also incredibly pragmatic in giving you a new lens on the choices we make every day and how simple changes can have a material impact. In Leveling Up, Ryan asks us to reflect on the legacy we want to leave, and then challenges us to live and move in a way that brings that closer to reality.”
“There is no silver bullet in business or in life; the silver bullet is continuous improvement. So if you want to be successful, focus on getting a little bit better everyday. I can’t think of a better book to help you do that than this one.”
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