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    Crazy Smart!
    Crazy Smart!
    Crazy Smart!
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    Crazy Smart!

    By Joe Slade, Jr

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    The key truths inside will unlock your future and lift you to that quality of life you and so many others strive to achieve!

    The scope of the problem we face is global; too much of what goes on in your world and across an array of organizations is undermined by not recognizing that you and your teammates are winners. What if you could change this with just baby steps? Imagine that you read “Crazy Smart” and then choose to be happy, healthy and build the quality of life you want. Neat, huh!

    •Crazy Smart presents 10 perspectives of what winners look like, how they got to be winners, and what they do with the positive attitudes that come from winning. And more than 20 case studies that document winning too!

    •Crazy Smart helps you understand that you can grow into your strengths and engage your individual process of purposeful practice to move up life’s hierarchy of being a winner.

    •In each Crazy Smart chapter, look for the little things you can bring into your daily life flow that allow you to filter for those outliers and winners who will kick ass and take names as they roll on to deliver remarkable experiences for your customers.
    Having won in four sports, Joe knows how to win. When the game was on the line, the coach said, “give Slade the ball!” Now it’s your turn! Winning is contagious! Winning feels good! You deserve all of that! Read on and reap your rewards!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Slade, Jr
    Release dateMay 26, 2018
    ISBN9780692112878
    Crazy Smart!
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    Joe Slade, Jr

    Joe Slade is a winner, too. The eldest of five children, he rose out of abject poverty as a teenager using his faith, strong education, and athletic abilities to become the first bachelor-degree graduate in his family’s history. And he learned by making mistakes—a hell of a lot of them. In high school, he played for winning teams. After an honorable discharge in 1966, he returned to college and played as a partial-scholarship baseball athlete. He also worked multiple part-time jobs to pay for food, clothing, and all the costs that go along with learning and growing. After college, he learned to play rugby and excelled “on the pitch” and in his early business career. He was asked to try out for the Texas Touring Side and played fly half (QB) for that team for two years. When the coach wanted to win, he said, “Give Slade the ball.” Joe also gave back, starting with a volunteer stint with the Galveston County Chapter of the American Red Cross at age 24. He has volunteered in a range of community, regional, and national organizations every year since. He was often named to leadership roles in these organizations. Today, he is a volunteer member of the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce Business & Education Committee. Along the way, he has been blessed to be father of three beautiful, competent, and capable daughters. Sabra, Erin, and Courtney are all successful, creative talents in their professions. From 2009–2011, Joe played on the Golf Channel Amateur Tour Austin-San Antonio circuit. He won 12 USGA-sanctioned tourneys in his flight and qualified in 2010 and 2011 for the GC Am Tour Senior National Championship. At TPC Sawgrass, he bested 94 other golfers in his flight. The next year at PGA West, he finished in the top 10 of a tougher flight. He also won numerous Championships at Horseshoe Bay, including two Senior Men’s Club Championships. He served on the board of the MGA and was elected president in 2013. Joe continues to be grateful for the successful people who have taught him well. And, he continues to learn. He makes it a priority to be happy and healthy, and he takes time to mentor clean technology startup teams and younger business professionals who are willing to learn.

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      Crazy Smart! - Joe Slade, Jr

      Crazy Smart!

      Compelling Ways Winners

      Make You a Winner!

      These key truths will unlock your future and lift you to that quality of life

      you and so many others strive to achieve!

      Joe Slade

      Crazy Smart! Top Ten Compelling Ways Winners Make You a Winner!

      Copyright © 2018 by Joe L. Slade, Jr. All Rights Reserved.

      According to the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of this book without prior permission of the author/publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from this book (other than portions for review), prior written approval must be obtained from the author/publisher at jslade1000@gmail.com. Thank you for supporting the author’s rights.

      Published and printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, May 2018

      ISBN-13: 978-0-692-11287-8

      Joe L. Slade, Jr. for SFT Publishing, LLC

      New Braunfels, Texas 78131

      USA

      www.winnersrippleout.com

      Contents

      Prequels

      Overview

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Good Mood!

      Chapter 2: An Attractive Environment.

      Chapter 3: Learning Happens!

      Chapter 4: Focus, Focus, Focus.

      Chapter 5: A Positive Culture

      Exhale: Take a Deep Breath Before We Plunge into the Second Half!

      Chapter 6: Solid Support.

      Chapter 7: Better Buzz!

      Chapter 8: Invitations to the Best Relationships.

      Chapter 9: Self-Determination.

      Chapter 10: Continuity…Sustainability!

      Appendix: Artificial Intelligence Is Not Just for Enterprises.

      Bonus

      Acknowledgments

      A Personal Postscript

      About the Author

      Back Cover

      Prequels

      These are a few storytellers who made their mark on the world of business and creativity, and who mentored me even without knowing it. I chose to profile them to let you know how curiosity, focus, and talent can come together for the greater good.

      These authors persevered and produced unique and remarkable value even through setbacks and rejections. They are the winners who have preceded you. Of course, we could have a longer list of experts, but we need to get you on the path of reading this book—and to being Crazy Smart!

      Jack Canfield

      Jack Canfield is one of the most published authors or co-authors on the planet, with more than 500 million books in print in a multitude of languages, including a series of books on the principles of success.

      In The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Canfield cites neuropsychologists who study expectancy theory to support his view on the significance of visualization. Canfield writes,

      Scientists used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the outside world. But today, they’re learning that instead, we respond to what the brain, based on previous experience, expects to happen next. In fact, the mind is such a powerful instrument, it can deliver literally everything you want.

      But we must believe that what we want is possible. Through a lifetime’s worth of events, our brain learns what to expect next—whether it eventually happens that way or not. Because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we anticipate.

      Malcolm Gladwell

      In his amazing book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers—the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks, What makes high achievers different?

      His answer reveals that we pay too little attention to where they are from: their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

      Along the way, he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

      Michael Lewis

      In his New York Times bestseller, The Big Short, which later became a film, Lewis describes several of the main players in the creation of the credit-default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2008. He also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the market or goes against the grain.

      The Big Short pays special attention to people involved in the biggest losses created by the market crash: Merrill’s $300 million mezzanine CDO manager Wing Chau; Howie Hubler, known as the person who lost $9 billion in one trade, the largest single loss in history; and Joseph Cassano’s AIG Financial Products, which suffered over $99 billion in losses.

      Were these people smart? Did they have skills? Were they winners? You decide.

      Jim Collins

      In his four-million copies bestseller, From Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, Collins describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most fail to make the transition. The book defines greatness as financial performance several times better than the market average over a sustained period. Collins finds the main reason certain companies become great is how they narrowly focus the company’s resources in their field of key competence.

      He used a large team of researchers who studied 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts, and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a five-year project. You’ll see it again later, but here is my takeaway: get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off

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