Be a Winner!: Life's Handbook for Joy and Success

by Bryan C. Cressey

Overview

Bryan C. Cressey has built major investment firms, created a pathbreaking enterprise that helps the homeless and addicted positively transform their lives, and assisted in creating companies who are improving our nation's healthcare. He spent ten years compiling what he has learned and the tools he uses so you can turn your life into what you wish.

At the heart of the book, Cressey wants you to know how to:
• Describe your dreams and move toward attaining them
• Turn entrepreneurial ideas into reality
• Diagnose the future of a company you may want to work for
• Find joy and fulfillment in your life along with success
• Connect more enjoyably and deeply with people
• Eliminate the usual barriers to success
• Create success tailwinds
• Invest most wisely
• Become creative and utilize the powers generated from your ideas
• Negotiate, especially when making important, high stakes, long-term buying and selling decisions
• Assess a company—whether to purchase it or join as an employee—illustrated with examples from his four decades
• Grow a company, including the most important metrics and strategies he employs in the companies his firm owns
• Evaluate a CEO or manager, and know whether that person is a good fit for the role

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162202646
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Bryan C. Cressey, a pioneer in the field of private equity investing and one of the most influential investors of our time, has managed billions of dollars of private capital, founded multiple leading firms, and has long been recognized as one of the most important forces and thought leaders in the investing and the healthcare industry.

In 2015, he co-founded First Cressey Ventures with his longtime friend and partner, Senator Bill Frist. Mr. Cressey is an expert in the healthcare industry where he has invested for more than three decades. Featured in TIME Magazine’s special edition “American Best” as one of four “rising young stars in venture capital,” Cressey has also been featured in Fortune, and speaks nationwide on healthcare and private equity investing.

In addition to his business interests, Mr. Cressey is a leader in philanthropy, including his role as chairman of the board of trustees of the Adler Planetarium. Most recently, Mr. Cressey founded the Above and Beyond Recovery Center, an addiction treatment facility that aims to innovate new, effective treatment strategies and provide free services to the homeless and uninsured.

Editorial Reviews

Bryan is one of the few people who had the determination and devotion to turn his idea into a reality for our residents. I know Bryan not just as a successful businessman and entrepreneur, but as the founder of one of Chicago's most innovative and transformational social service organizations—the Above and Beyond Treatment Center. Bryan is a proven visionary who thinks beyond the boardroom and leverages his success for the benefit of others—and our city is better because of it.

Former Mayor of Chicago, Senior Advisor, Centerview Partners - Rahm Emanuel

Bryan Cressey has set a different standard for how to be a successful private equity investor. His knowledge, integrity, intuition, and overall passion for healthcare and entrepreneurs have led him to both financial success and widescale respect. Bryan has used his success to spawn other successful business ventures, support and even found charitable organizations, changing lives one at a time. There is much we can all learn from Bryan about how to live a life that yields success on all fronts.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Encompass Health - April Anthony

Bryan has always generously given his time and resources to support people and causes on which he could have an impact. More than twenty years ago, I was fortunate to hear Bryan speak. He spoke about his passion for helping entrepreneurs think differently and create meaningful value in their companies. Bryan has been an accessible role model ever since, and I continue to find his advice and wisdom invaluable.

Founder and CEO, Jackson Private Capital - Duane Jackson

Bryan's always active mind absorbs all the incoming...and produces a thought that almost always is tied to action, or transformation, or betterment of others. He is fulfilled by lifting people up, whether it is the young contestant playing air hockey, the least experienced or otherwise ignored person in a boardroom, or the alcoholic who has no hope. Bryan identifies, embraces, then lifts—to a level of self-empowerment and new energy and a new life. That's the Bryan Cressey touch.

Former United States Senate Majority Leader - Bill Frist