Ahead of Their Time: Pioneers Who Seized Tomorrow, Today
What if you could see problems others ignore? You know solutions that would work. But you're still waiting for permission to act.
What if your biggest frustrations at work are million-dollar opportunities in disguise?
This easy-to-understand collection of relatable stories illustrates how thirteen ordinary professionals became industry pioneers, not by predicting the future, but by fixing what everyone else accepted as unfixable.
Discover:
● How a professor rewrote state laws and created a $100 million industry
● Why opening a food incubator in the "wrong" neighborhood achieved 87% success rates
● How giving away $50,000 in free advice tripled one marketer's business
● The "Third Choice" method that solves impossible either/or decisions
● Why awkwardness is your secret weapon, not your weakness
This book includes:
- Inspiring and actionable stories of thirteen successful pioneers.
- Practical tools and frameworks to apply in your career.
- Strategies for challenging and changing broken systems.
- Insights on how to think outside the box and find success in unexpected places.
Each chapter delivers immediately applicable frameworks, including Leanne Gordon's "what if" questions, Rabbi Debra Newman-Kamin's intellectual humility, Andy Crestodina's "teach before selling" marketing method, Billy Dexter's relationship architecture, and Sonat Birnecker-Hart's system-building approach.
Perfect for leaders navigating industry change, consultants whose insights aren't heard, and anyone thinking "there has to be a better way."
Please don't wait for change to happen; create it now. Get your copy of 'Ahead of Their Time' before the price changes.
Introduction
Seeing What's Already True
Part 1: How Pioneers Think Differently
Chapter 1: Leanne Gordon: The Power of "What If"
Chapter 2: "How Do You Know?"
Chapter 3: Why the Front Door is Overrated
Part 2: Turning Problems Into Opportunities
Chapter 4: When Good Employees Go Bad
Chapter 5: "The Generosity Contest"
Chapter 6: Closing the Digital Divide
Part 3: People First, Profits Follow
Chapter 7: "When Did You Last Talk to a Customer?"
Chapter 8: "Why Not?"
Chapter 9: Network to Give: Not to Get
Chapter 10: How to Become Indispensable
Part 4: Building Things That Outlast You
Chapter 11: The Entrepreneur Whisperer
Chapter 12: What Happened to Good Radio?
Chapter 13: "Who Wrote the Laws?"
Epilogue
Your Pioneer Moment
