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Practical Virtue

Practical Virtue is a helpful bridge to a meaningful life and a better career.

Practical Virtue is an inspiring collection of helpful virtues from the author’s 11 popular books, dozens of blog posts and new content with a focus on helping early-career professionals become leaders worth following. In each short chapter, you will encounter true stories from his extensive coaching work and candid personal experiences along with helpful best practices to help the reader better understand and apply each virtue in your life. Each virtue is presented as a necessary soft skill leaders and aspiring leaders should fully embrace. The author’s hope is that you will work your way through the actionable chapters having learned invaluable leadership skills, experienced considerable personal growth and picked up life-changing virtuous habits that will help you consistently do the right thing at work and become a leader others are eager to follow.

Early Recommendations for Practical Virtue

Practical Virtue is a much needed and timeless resource for all early career professionals and aspiring leaders who wish to acquire critical leadership soft skills, grow personally and become leaders who are worth following. I believe this is not only a critical resource for these future leaders to absorb and practice, but also a practical tool more senior leaders should utilize to create guided conversations with their younger colleagues at work.

Practical Virtue provides guidance into living a life grounded in integrity and purpose. Randy Hain offers advice on how to apply timeless virtues to everyday challenges, helping readers build stronger character and more meaningful relationships. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone, especially early career professionals, committed to personal growth and leading with intention. I strongly recommend this book!

Randy Hain’s Practical Virtue captures his unique insight gleaned from his work with executives and leaders across a broad spectrum of organizations. This book will aid the aspiring and early career professional alike as they seek to efficiently and effectively transition into the modern workforce. Practical Virtue provides a guidebook and a roadmap for early career success that will create tomorrow’s ethical leaders.

Becoming a More Thoughtful Leader

Thought-provoking topics and actionable best practices drawn from decades of experience to equip leaders and aspiring leaders to show up better at work and in life.

Inspired by countless executive coaching conversations with leaders around the world and the author’s own 30+ year business career, Becoming a More Thoughtful Leader taps into his unique reflective style to offer actionable best practices and insights on a host of leadership topics. This book, his 11th, shares genuine experiences, candid observations and hard-fought wisdom in each thought-provoking chapter. The eclectic topics range from vulnerability to accountability to patience to addressing workplace disconnectedness…and much, much more. The book encourages the reader to pause at the end of each chapter and answer a few reflection questions to deepen understanding of the topic and challenge them to put into practice what they learned. The key to understanding and fully utilizing the book is recognizing the subtle challenge to look in the mirror and be more thoughtful about your own growth as a leader, but to also be more thoughtful about investing in your work colleagues and everyone you encounter throughout the day. The author’s hope is that the readers of this book will not only become better leaders, but also better and more thoughtful humans.

Early Recommendations for Becoming a More Thoughtful Leader

The genius guidance contained in Randy Hain’s newest book, Becoming a More Thoughtful Leader, begins with its title. In each chapter’s clear and compelling stories, he presents a lesson in “reflection, then action.” This work makes a case for simple leadership (and personal) practices for including thoughtfulness in our collective work culture that values brevity and fast decision-making.

With real-world examples and actionable insights, Randy challenges readers to lead with purpose, integrity, and responsibility. This book serves as an invaluable guide for leaders seeking to make a lasting impact on their teams and organizations.

Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation

A practical collection of helpful insights and actionable ideas to equip leaders and aspiring leaders to thrive in all areas of their lives.

Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation, Randy Hain’s eighth book, offers today’s leaders and aspiring leaders a practical collection of helpful advice and actionable ideas drawn from his thirty-plus years of senior leadership, coaching, and consulting experience to successfully navigate all areas of their lives.

Essential Wisdom is a must-have guidebook filled with insights, ideas, and best practices that all professionals should think about and do well in order to be more effective in their roles. Leaders and aspiring leaders of every age and any stage of their career journey will find practical nuggets of wisdom they can use to accelerate their success.

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Recommendations for Essential Wisdom

Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation is not something you can read and digest in one sitting. Every section, every chapter, is to be taken in thoughtfully so it can be applied practically. Because what Randy Hain has put together here is as practical as it is truly essential. Give this book to those you care about who are or may one day be leaders. And keep a copy on your bedside table or in a handy place for your own regular boosts of incremental wisdom. This is a gem.

Essential Wisdom isn’t a book; it is the mentor we all need to keep us focused on what really matters in leadership. The advice is simple and direct. It is practical and compelling. Don’t just read this book; study this book, and you will not just become a better leader . . . you will become a better person. That is a promise!

Randy Hain is one of the most authentic, optimistic, joyful, and giving people I know. Randy is a mentor and someone I turn to when I am seeking advice on career, family, and community issues. This book is for anyone who is seeking practical insights and wisdom in their everyday lives. I highly recommend Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation!

In his new book, Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation, Randy Hain shares a practical guide for leaders to navigate through the complexities of today’s business environment in a thoughtful and practical manner that makes the reader reflect on ways to improve the way they connect and engage with people, how they build relationships and support their teams, and the importance of clear and concise communications. This guide helps leaders understand the fundamentals of leadership, the importance of being present, the mechanics of positively impacting others, and what leaders leave behind when it is all done. Randy’s strong experience as a business professional and executive coach, combined with his sincere, practical, and faith-based style, make his book a must-read for leaders in all industries and of all ages.

Randy Hain continues to inspire, and this time he has created a personal and professional masterpiece to help guide not only the career professional but also the working parent and the aspiring college student looking to start a career and wondering where and how to start. This book captures the essence of life leadership by highlighting the importance of character, authenticity, credibility, and maximizing efficiency in the workplace to allow for a more rewarding life. Randy’s passion as an executive coach comes shining through as he challenges readers to be their best selves.

The writer of Proverbs encourages us that “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding.” Randy Hain offers leaders in every stage of their career an opportunity to gain wisdom from his decades of experience. He has spent his entire career helping people succeed in their careers and in life and now he has bundled his advice and wisdom into one volume in his new book, Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation. Read this fantastic book to help you gain wisdom and then apply it to gain understanding.

Essential Wisdom for Leaders of Every Generation is not just a book about wisdom and leadership. It’s a book about life, and how to approach it successfully. Leadership and life are about one thing: Relationships. Our relationship with ourselves as well as with others. There is so much valuable, concise, and practical wisdom in this book that you will want to carry it around with you all the time. I’ve known Randy Hain for decades, and it has been his personal mission to share as much of the wisdom that he has gained over his life as he can. He shares it willingly, with empathy, and with passion. This is a must-read.

Chock-full of excellent advice, Essential Wisdom is a masterful combination of practical guidance and tips that provide a roadmap to success and fulfillment. Randy Hain has remarkably condensed over two and a half decades of executive experience into one book designed to help you live your best life. Use this book as your GPS — to help you reach the destination you’ve always desired!

Upon Reflection

Helpful insights and timeless lessons for the busy professional.

Randy Hain’s ninth book offers timeless lessons and practical ideas on a myriad of topics drawn from his 30+ years of senior leadership, executive coaching, and consulting experience to help fuel the career success and personal growth of busy professionals from every generation.

Written through the author’s own practice of intentional reflection, Upon Reflection is a thoughtful book that will benefit everyone. Experienced professionals will gain helpful new perspectives and be reminded of what they hopefully know and believe but sometimes forget to practice. Younger professionals discover valuable insights into the timeless values, virtues, and best practices that make for a richer life and a successful career. All readers will find great value in the various relevant topics and encouragement the book offers to slow down, savor the moments, and be more reflective.

Recommendations for Upon Reflection

In this wonderful book by my friend Randy Hain, you will learn the discipline of reflection. It is a powerful leadership habit that will not only improve your life at work, but have positive ripples through your personal life too! Upon Reflection gives you all the tools you need to lead better and be better. Read, study and share this book with colleagues, friends, and family. We all need more reflection.

Randy Hain does it again! With his direct, compelling, and sincere writing style, Randy helps us understand the importance of balancing priorities in life to make the best of every experience, every interaction with others, and everything we do at home and at work. His many experiences as a business leader, professional, coach, husband, and father provide us with an effective guide on how we can be better professionals, engaged family members, better examples to our children, and, simply, better humans. Great work.

Randy Hain has delivered another must-read! I have seen Randy facilitate a strategic planning exercise with our Brock School of Business Dean’s Advisory Board and can attest to his wisdom and keen insight on a first-hand basis. That wisdom permeates this book and is further evidence that Randy is a leading voice in helping organizational leaders understand the best and most effective ways to lead.

What makes Randy Hain so extraordinary is his ability to focus on his topics with authenticity, intelligence and wholeheartedness. Randy is a rare breed and anyone who has the opportunity to meet him or read his book will be a better person for it. He is masterful in his writings and teaching.

As a society we have rightly begun to put greater emphasis on mental health over the last decade. Upon Reflection has much to offer towards this conversation as Randy explains in a compelling way how important it is for busy professionals to carve out time for reflection. It will leave you informed, pondering, and equipped for the mental rigors of our hectic world.

Randy Hain has done it again! Upon Reflection is a book for all of us — reminding seasoned veterans of what we believe but forget to practice and teaching younger professionals the timeless values and virtues that make for a healthy life and career. Randy serves as a sort of sage who equips us all to live our best life. I recommend this resource to anyone.

Being Fully Present

Each Story is Derived from Encounters, Situations, and Memories in an Ordinary Life, but this Collection of Stories is Nothing Short of Extraordinary.

Being Fully Present: True Stories of Epiphanies and Powerful Lessons from Everyday Life, Randy Hain’s tenth book, contains true and personal stories drawn from his life as a husband, father, person of faith, and business leader. The book will inspire and challenge readers to more thoughtfully examine how they see the world, engage differently with the people they encounter, and seek to learn helpful lessons from situations and challenges they face in daily life.

Being Fully Present is an eclectic collection of thought-provoking stories. They illustrate the importance of eliminating distractions, listening actively, developing self-awareness, and being open to the lessons gleaned from every meeting and situation. Readers will also gain valuable insight through the stories of how to better serve and help others by being more fully present. Through Hain’s authentic style, decades of intentional practice, and hard-fought wisdom, readers will understand the critical importance of journaling, frequent reflection, and cultivating a mindset of continuously “mining for gold” from current life and favorite memories.

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Recommendations for Being Fully Present

Life can move fast if we let it. Randy Hain reminds us that being fully present means slowing down so we don’t miss the best parts of life.

Hain closes each story with reflection questions perfect for personal journaling or meaningful discussions with friends and loved ones. “Being Fully Present” is a treasure chest of wisdom and points to what’s important in a world filled with distractions.

Randy’s collection of timely personal stories reminds us that “success” in common terms doesn’t automatically produce meaning and a well-lived life. Infused with hard-won wisdom, Randy uses his own story to help you find the deeper meaning in your everyday life and work.