Larry Ackerman: The Identity Code - Blog Business Success Radio

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Leading authority on personal and organizational identity, founder and president of The Identity Circle LLC, and author of the inspirational and life transforming book The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World, Larry Ackerman, describes how the secret to the purpose to your life is already coded into your life as your identity code. Much like a genetic code, the identity code provides a complete map of your life purpose. Larry Ackerman provides his eight essential questions for discovering your own identity code, and for using it to transform and empower your life. Larry guides you through the process of unlocking your own diversity code to empower you, freeing you to enhance your own personal passions and destiny. Learn how the identity code will help establish more fulfilling relationships, enhance your career, and even guide you to hobbies that you may enjoy with passion.

Larry Ackerman is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, June 7, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Leading authority on personal and organizational identity, founder and president of The Identity Circle LLC, and author of the inspirational and life transforming book The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World, Larry Ackerman, describes how the secret to the purpose to your life is already coded into your life as your identity code. You will learn:

* Why your unique identity code is like your genetic code

* How understanding your identity code will free and empower you

* What are the eight essential questions for unlocking your own identity code

* How to utilize the questions for your own journey to your life purpose



Larry Ackerman (photo left) is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity. He is the founder and president of The Identity Circle LLC, an identity consulting, education and research firm based in Westport, Connecticut. The firm helps organizations and individuals clarify their uniqueness and potential, and then assists them in putting that potential to work in ways that dramatically improve their performance, impact and reputations.

Prior to forming The Identity Circle, Larry was a senior executive with leading corporate brand and identity consulting firms including Siegel & Gale and Anspach Grossman Portugal.

In a professional career spanning more than 25 years, Mr. Ackerman has helped meet some of the most complex challenges facing large organizations struggling to distinguish themselves in their fields. As a personal coach to senior executives, as well as consultant to their organizations, his insights have helped many leaders discover the keys not just to survive, but to flourish.

Larry’s consulting experience is international and multi-industry in scope. He has directed assignments for such diverse companies as AARP, Aetna, The American Academy of Family Physicians, Baxter Healthcare, Boise Cascade, Dow Chemical, EDS, Fidelity Investments, Gates Corporation, Interbrew, Lockheed Martin, Maytag, National Australia Bank, Norsk Hydro, State Farm Insurance, Ernst & Young, and Westinghouse.

Larry has published two ground-breaking books on identity. In his first book, Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation (Berrett-Koehler, 2000), the author set forth a revolutionary view of the nature of identity and its impact on leadership and management. In his second book, The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World (Random House, 2006), Larry asserts that we “cannot be anything we want to be;” but rather, that long term fulfillment comes when we live by the ‘identity code’ that defines our unique value-creating potential.

Mr. Ackerman has been a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Management, Wharton, UCLA’s Anderson School and Pepperdine University. Larry is a top-rated speaker for The Conference Board, and a regular keynote speaker for senior management meetings among global companies.

Mr. Ackerman attended Carnegie-Mellon University and Boston University and resides in Westport, Connecticut with his wife Janet and son Max.

My book review of The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World by Larry Ackerman.

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Let's talk with leading authority on personal and organizational identity, founder and president of The Identity Circle LLC, and author of the inspirational and life transforming book The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World, Larry Ackerman, as he describes how the secret to the purpose to your life is already coded into your life as your identity code. Much like a genetic code, the identity code provides a complete map of your life purpose. Larry Ackerman provides his eight essential questions for discovering your own identity code, and for using it to transform and empower your life. Larry guides you through the process of unlocking your own diversity code to empower you, freeing you to enhance your own personal passions and destiny. Learn how the identity code will help establish more fulfilling relationships, enhance your career, and even guide you to hobbies that you may enjoy with passion on Blog Business Success Radio.

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The Identity Code by Larry Ackerman - Book review

The Identity Code

The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World

By: Larry Ackerman

Published: December 27, 2005
Format: Hardcover: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1400064171
ISBN-13: 978-1400064175
Publisher: Random House










"This book is designed to introduce you to yourself. Not the person you see in the mirror, physically speaking, or the one people necessarily interact with every day, but the person inside. The powerful one", writes leading authority on organizational and personal identity, Larry Ackerman, in his inspirational and life transforming book The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World. The author describes how who a person really is has already been built into them in the form of their identity code.

Larry Ackerman understands that for a person to know who they really are, as well as their purpose and destiny in life, they must crack their own identity code.The author makes the bold statement, that the identity code is so powerful, that you are already the person you were meant to be in life. This concept goes against the conventional wisdom that a person can be whatever they want to be life. Instead, Larry Ackerman presents the identity code as a map to the real person within, in a similar way that a person's DNA forms their genetic code. For the author, answering the eight questions that help to uncover an individual's identity code unlocks the outline of one's life. For the author, this self discovery process creates both a stronger and a larger identity, that has a positive effect, on every aspect of life.



Larry Ackerman (photo left) recognizes the importance of a transformation to a larger life through uncovering the personal identity code. A person who discovers their own identity code is able to apply its powerful force to everything in their life, from their personal relationships, to their overall careers. With the author considering personal freedom to be a myth, and that the life imperative encoded within the self, Larry Ackerman points out the liberating aspect of this personal revelation. While a person can't be anything they want to be, the individual will be much more powerful in the areas of their passion and interest,

Larry Ackerman outlines the eight essential questions that accompany and guide the journey toward understanding one's own unique identity code. The eight questions are as follows:

* Who am I?
* What makes me special?
* Is there a pattern to my life?
* Where am I going?
* What is my gift?
* Who can I trust?
* What is my message?
* Will my life be rich?

For me, the power of the book is how Larry Ackerman takes the unconventional position that a person cannot be anything they want, and then offers the reasons as to why this is the case. The author presents a compelling case for the existence of a personal identity code, and provides the steps and questions for unlocking the messages within that code. The process is through the answering and understanding of the eight essential questions that form the heart of the book.

Each question is composed of three parts: the story that brings forth insights and lessons; the promise to understand accept the self; and the pathways to prepare for change. The author provides a series of exercises to help understand the identity code and how to map it for oneself. The map creates a starting point to move forward to the next phase of understanding oneself more deeply.

I highly recommend the engaging and deeply personal understanding based book The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World by Larry Ackerman, to anyone seeking to discover the true purpose and destiny for their lives. This book will guide you on that critical path to self discovery that will transform your life to one with purpose and empowerment.

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Mark Miller: Great Leaders GROW: Becoming A Leader For Life - Blog Business Success Radio

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Vice-President, Training and Development for Chick-fil-A, and co-author along with Ken Blanchard, of the inspirational and wisdom filled book Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life, Mark Miller , describes how successful leaders don't rest on their accomplishments, but continue to learn, grow, and develop as leaders and as people. Mark Miller provides ideas about how personal development is also leadership development. Leaders who continue to grow personally, continue to improve as their influence and effectiveness as leaders. On the other hand, leaders who fail to grow lose their influence, and eventually their leadership roles as well. Leaders can decide to grow, and Mark Miller shares the process with the GROW leadership development principles. Leaders face new challenges in the increasingly globalized economy, and the old solutions simply will not work anymore. A leader who chooses to grow and enter a path of life long learning and development will be prepared to meet those challenges.

Mark Miller is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, June 5, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Vice-President, Training and Development for Chick-fil-A, and co-author along with Ken Blanchard, of the inspirational and wisdom filled book Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life, Mark Miller , describes how successful leaders don't rest on their accomplishments, but continue to learn, grow, and develop as leaders and as people. You will learn:

* Why leaders must continue to grow as people or risk stagnation

* Why leaders who fail to grow lose influence and even their leadership roles

* How to apply the GROW principles of leadership and personal development

* How growing prepares a leader to meet the challenges of the global economy




Mark Miller (photo left) is a business leader, best-selling author and communicator.

Mark began his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member in 1977. In 1978, Mark joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom. Since that time, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Field Operations, Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Training and Development, and today he serves as the Vice President for the newly formed Organizational Effectiveness function. During his time with Chick-fil-A, annual sales have grown to over $4 billion. The company has more than 1,600 restaurants in 39 states and the District of Columbia.

Mark began writing about a decade ago. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. Today, almost 400,000 copies of The Secret are in print, and it has been translated into more than 20 languages. Recently, he released The Secret of Teams which outlines some of the key lessons learned from a 20 year study on what makes some teams outperform the rest. His newest book,Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life, was released in February 2012 and was co-authored with Ken Blanchard.

In addition to his writing, Mark loves speaking to leaders. Over the years, he’s traveled extensively around the world teaching for numerous international organizations. His theme is always the same: encouraging and equipping leaders. His topics include leadership, creativity, team building, and more.

Mark has an active lifestyle. As a photographer, he enjoys shooting in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp and the jungles of Rwanda.

My book review of Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with Vice-President, Training and Development for Chick-fil-A, and co-author along with Ken Blanchard, of the inspirational and wisdom filled book Great Leaders GROW: Becoming a Leader for Life, Mark Miller , as he describes how successful leaders don't rest on their accomplishments, but continue to learn, grow, and develop as leaders and as people. Mark Miller provides ideas about how personal development is also leadership development. Leaders who continue to grow personally, continue to improve as their influence and effectiveness as leaders.

On the other hand, leaders who fail to grow lose their influence, and eventually their leadership roles as well. Leaders can decide to grow, and Mark Miller shares the process with the GROW leadership development principles. Leaders face new challenges in the increasingly globalized economy, and the old solutions simply will not work anymore. A leader who chooses to grow and enter a path of life long learning and development will be prepared to meet those challenges on Blog Business Success Radio.

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