The Gift of Struggle

Life-Changing Lessons About Leading

De: Bobby Herrera

Narrado por: Bobby Herrera

Every leader has stories about the challenges they have faced and struggles they have overcome. In the moment, those situations require strength, patience, perseverance and courage. With time, those struggles provide us lessons for how to be better leaders. Bobby Herrera learned to see those struggles as gifts.

As the co-founder and CEO of Populus Group, Bobby never imagined the challenges of building a $500 million organization that serves tens of thousands of people. Throughout his life, he experienced the divergence between the intentional leader he wanted to be, and the less engaged version of him that showed up at the office every day. One day at a company meeting, he decided to share a story about one of his first struggles as a young adult. That story, a pivotal experience that had transformed Bobby's life, inspired his employees with its radical transparency, humility and the idealism of Bobby's dreams for the company.

In The Gift of Struggle, Bobby shares twelve of those stories from his leadership journey. Each chapter shares the details of the story, the broader lesson any leader can apply, a set of questions to reflect on, and an afterword for how the story later unfolded in Bobby's life. Building on Bobby's efforts, this book inspires listeners to find their own stories, share their gifts of struggle with others, and become the leader they imagine they can be.

©2019 Bobby Herrera (P)2023 Bard Press

Refreshing

I had the privilege to watch Bobby live at a conference, and just like this book, his message that day was refreshing. I find it refreshing to hear from a self-made individual how our struggles are gifts that can build us.

The book is short but it will deliver a positive perspective on challenges you may face in life, as well as abundance of reasons to be thankful. I can’t recommend it enough. Although the message is timeless, it is an important message for today’s time.

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Nope, not for me, I am sure that this will be of value to the right person, but not for me. On to my next listen.