Axcess News • Books
Stop waiting for permission.
Axcess News traced the message of You Are Capable of More back to where Chris learned it: more than a decade in healthcare staffing, watching capable people hold back until someone told them they were ready.
Building without a playbook.
Written by Hugh Grant for the Books section, the feature starts in healthcare staffing, where every open position is a hospital unit, clinic or patient waiting for care. Chris helped build a company from the ground up, making big decisions before success was guaranteed.
It follows him through COVID, when the work became relentless and people needed someone to make the next decision and own it, and through an acquisition, when his job was helping people focus on what they could control. The lesson he carried into the book: you do not have to feel ready before you act.
What to take from it.
- No one is coming to hand you permission.Ownership starts the moment you decide to act on what you already know.
- Focus on what you control.In uncertain seasons, that is where progress still happens.
- Feel stuck in place?Try How to Stop Playing It Safe and How to Take a Career Risk When You Are Scared.
Self-doubt does not have to disappear for you to move forward.Chris Sund, in Axcess News
About Axcess News
Axcess News is an online news publication covering business, technology, entertainment and books. The feature ran in its Entertainment and Books section.
Where to go from here
You Are Capable of More
Ten chapters on ownership, discipline and growth, with a Playbook at the end you can keep coming back to. Available in paperback, hardcover and ebook.
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