Rising to the Challenge, Carly Fiornia
Rising to the Challenge, Carly Fiornia
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Rising to the Challenge
My Leadership Journey

Author: Carly Fiornia

Narrator: Carly Fiornia

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 09/15/2015


Synopsis

“There are all kinds of reasons why people fail to fulfill their potential. Perhaps they lack opportunity, perhaps they lack support, perhaps they lack tools or training or education. But everyone has potential. This I know. Our Founders knew it too. They had the radical insight that the right to fulfill your potential— to use your God-given gifts—is a right that comes from God and cannot be taken away by government.” Since the 2006 publication of her New York Times bestseller, Tough Choices, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has faced a new round of challenges. She ran for the Senate as a Republican in deep-blue California but was unable to unseat the entrenched incumbent. She battled breast cancer, wondering if she’d even survive. Worst of all, she suffered the devastating loss of a beloved daughter. Yet despite these setbacks and tragedies, she remains undaunted: “I’ve come to see lessons and blessings in these passages. I know now that life is not measured in time. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.” Now, Fiorina shares the lessons she’s learned from both her difficulties and triumphs. Drawing on her experience as a pioneering business and nonprofit leader, a politically active citizen, and a parent, she diagnoses the largest problem facing our country today: untapped potential. Too often, American men and women are held back by systems that prevent them from working and flourishing. Too many people lose hope for themselves. Too many lack the opportunity to use their gifts and live lives of meaning, dignity, and purpose. In 2014, Fiorina launched the Unlocking Potential Project, a new grassroots organization, to share a message with those who worry about America’s future: we have all the resources we need to prosper, but we don’t tap into them. By ignoring conservative principles—or failing to articulate those principles in ways that connect with regular people—politicians have failed their constituents, abandoning them to the crushing burden of our bloated government. Fiorina believes that politics, like business, is primarily about people. With warmth and compassion, she provides a vision that reaches across the usual barriers of gender, race, income, and party affiliation to craft a message that appeals to a wide range of Americans: a message of hope. As she learned facing life’s challenges, “Hope is a curiously strong thing.” Her story—and her ideas—will restore hope to those discouraged about the future.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Naftoli on August 24, 2015

Direct but elegant, this book captures the problems - and solutions - of our time. Coming from the high tech world of Silicon Valley (only an hour north of where i reside) Carly has a positive & innovative approach to change. I earned my first college degree at San Jose State University & Carly's book......more

Goodreads review by Rick on October 17, 2015

People like to pile on Carly's record at HP, but I have to say, there are some really good ideas in this book. Take, for example, government agencies being required to go through a zero-based budgeting process every two years. When I worked at NBC and a large agency, this is how we did it annually.......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on December 15, 2019

Really liked hearing Carly's political journey but would have liked more on how she got to this point. It's definitely a biography and not a self-help or leadership book.......more