Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything
John B Izzo
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1609940571
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In his bestselling book The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die, John Izzo tackled the secrets to lifelong happiness. Now he gives readers the key to a great career, a great workplace, better relationships, and a better world. Stepping Up argues that almost every problem, from personal difficulties and business challenges to social issues, can be solved if all of us look to ourselves to create change rather than looking to others. By seeing ourselves as agents of change we feel happier, less stressed, and more powerful.
Izzo offers seven compelling principles that enable anyone, anywhere, anytime to effectively bring about positive change. And the book is filled with stories that will inspire you: a middle-aged Italian shopkeeper who fought back against the Mafia, two teenagers who took a stand and ignited an antibullying movement, an executive who turned a dying division into a profit center, and many more. We all have the power to change the world—John Izzo shows us how.
“Insightful and inspired! Stepping Up reveals how all of us can create positive change in life and work.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
“This powerful, practical, life-changing book gives you the key to unlocking your full potential for greater success, achievement, and personal power in every area of your life.”
—Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Eat that Frog! and Goals!
“The perfect book for the times in which we live…page after page of engaging stories, profound insights, and practical tips on how you can stand up and take responsibility for making something meaningful happen.”
—Jim Kouzes, Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and Credibility
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work (Revised, Expanded)
Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation
Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life
Homeopathic Color and Sound Remedies, Revised
Leadership Is Not a Position CHAPTER 9 Stepping Up by Speaking Up CHAPTER 10 Who Am I to Step Up? CHAPTER 11 Creating a Culture of Stepping Up CHAPTER 12 One Person Always Matters RESOURCES Stepping Up for Change Key Themes in this Book Acknowledgments Index About the Author Foreword John Izzo’s Stepping Up is one of those books with a strong message that can benefit everyone who is open to it. John’s message, “Stepping up is seeing a need and deciding YOU are the right person
grow or improve their business, others just wanted to have a positive influence on the people around them, and some wanted better relationships. The book has two main thrusts: the value of taking responsibility and how to step up. The first three chapters make the case for why taking responsibility matters. My intention is not to lecture you but to show how our lives, careers, relationships, organizations, and communities will be radically better if we start looking to ourselves to change things
encouraged. Employees deemed low in argumentativeness were actually rated lower by their supervisors, so argue away, keeping in mind one huge caveat: not all workplaces or all managers want someone to speak up. So beware, or, better yet, find another boss if yours prefers silence. The moral of the story is simple. People who step up and challenge things are actually more likely to get ahead, but only if they do so in a way that is not perceived as finger-pointing and blaming. If you believe that
trying without success to get his head above the seat to look back. A few times I saw his head, another time his eyebrows, but it was not until about forty minutes into the flight that he finally got his head above the seat and rested his chin and hands on the seat. He looked something like a chipmunk. When he saw all of the passengers behind him, he smiled the biggest, most natural smile you’ve ever seen. Within moments that child transformed the five rows behind him. The boss-is-an-idiot lady
they somehow knew there was hope, that no matter how miserable their lives can be they can still find a place to connect.” And then there were the stories of those individuals whose lives changed. “There was a guy who had been fostered out and adopted many times as a child,” Ken said. “He had drifted from place to place and finally was working with us at the depot. He had taken on some supervisory responsibilities, but there was a street altercation and he was beaten up badly. He told me,
