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Lead The Vision, Lose The Grind: The CEO's Ultimate Guide to Leading with Intention and Succeeding with Freedom

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Availability:In StockContributor:Donnalynn RileyPublish date:8/14/2026Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sister Leader PressISBN-13:9798995475064UPC:9798995475064Book Category:Business & Economics, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Leadership, Emotions, ManagementSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.327Product ID:SCHEYJQ7A1

It's late. The monitor is the only light left on. Your spouse went to bed an hour ago. You built something most people never will - and somehow, you became the thing holding it all together. You're tired in a way no vacation fixes.

Donnalynn Riley - former Broadway sound designer turned CEO who scaled a retail company by 600% with 99.5% employee retention - has spent decades guiding leaders through the intersection of human performance and business growth. She knows the turn intimately: from the person a business depends on, to the leader it's built to outlast.

Inspired by the triple-helix structure of collagen, she introduces the Triple Helix System(TM) three strands - Business Architecture, Leadership Capacity, and the Loyalty Engine - bound by a force she calls State. Weaken one, and the whole business stays fragile. Strengthen all three, and it finally holds its own weight.

This isn't a hustle-harder book. It's a diagnosis - and a way through it - for the leader ready to stop being the only thing keeping the business standing.

Your business is a living system. It's time to lead it like one.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sister Leader PressISBN-13:9798995475064UPC:9798995475064Book Category:Business & Economics, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Leadership, Emotions, ManagementSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.327Product ID:SCHEYJQ7A1
Riley, Donnalynn: - Donnalynn Riley has spent over three decades learning, from the inside out, what it actually takes to build something that lasts.Her first career was on Broadway, where she spent 13 years as a sound designer, learning that high-stakes performance requires invisible systems, ruthless preparation, and the kind of leadership presence that holds an entire room without saying a word.Her second career was as the CEO of a multi-location furniture retail business, which she scaled by over 600% while creating a 99.5% employee retention rate and ultimately closed profitably on her own terms. She didn't just survive the pressure of running a physical operations business. She mastered it.For the better part of two decades, Donnalynn has worked with people navigating hard problems. In recent years, she's focused specifically on entrepreneurs and executives building businesses and the lives that sustain them, while also writing about business leadership and human performance.Donnalynn is a Master Business Alchemist and Certified Biofeedback Specialist. She developed the Triple Helix System(TM) and the Vantage Point methodology, disciplines that integrate operational design, leadership capacity, and the biological underpinnings of high performance.She works with clients worldwide from her base in South Florida. In this book, she makes the case that for sustainable, exponential growth, a business and its leadership must evolve together.
Publisher: Sister Leader Press

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