The Path Redefined: Getting to the Top on Your Own Terms

by Lauren Maillian Bias

Success is not about climbing over colleagues or climbing the corporate ladder; it's about the ability to rise to your full potential and tackle challenges with enthusiasm. In today's career climate, you have to be innovative and ambitious and capitalize on your individual talents.

The Path Getting to the Top on Your Own Terms shows you how to achieve the highest levels of success and satisfaction in business and in life by tapping into the essence of what makes you unique. You can reach the pinnacle of your work and personal lives, faster and more independently than you ever imagined possible—on your own terms.

In The Path Redefined , serial entrepreneur Lauren Maillian Bias shares the lessons and tactics that rocketed her to the top of three completely different fields—all before she reached the age of 30. Using her extensive experience as a successful business owner, venture capitalist, and startup advisor, Lauren explains in easy-to-understand terms how to reinvent yourself and plan for success, all while embracing failure but learning from your mistakes.

Including advice and lessons from some of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs and business executives, The Path Redefined will become an indispensable tool to maximize your full potential without compromising who you truly are.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2014

Reviews

[Leticia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essentially this book was one long humblebrag. Lauren has some really great advice but she doesn't give much of the biographical angle that I was looking for. Rather she skims over long chunks of time and talks about specific encounters and expands on those for awhole chapter. There good nuggets of advice but the fact that it took me three weeks to finish this book shows that it's not neccessarily compelling.

[Katarina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book ok...it didn't move my world, but it wasn't bad either.

There were a couple of things that I didn't like, the biggest of that was the tone it's written in.
I have the greatest respect for the author, she is clearly very intelligent and highly successful. Not many people have accomplished what she has.
Having said that, I found parts of the book to be a little bit self-congratulatory, possibly even a bit condescending.
There is good, sound advice in the book, so it's worth reading, but it didn't engage me.

[S. Lemon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such an amazing read. From start to finish, it just leaves you feeling powerful, as if the world is yours! If you are looking to start a business, bored in a business you've already started, or just need a kick start back into a positive mindset, I'd definitely recommend this awesome book. I started reading this book on a Friday night and shortly after noon on Saturday I was finished. It covers every aspect of living life on your terms and following your dreams. It discusses using networking to your advantage(in a professional manner). I just loved it!

[Vanessa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lauren Maillian Bias is incredibly accomplished and clearly guided by excellent principles, but this book falls short of capturing her spirit and unfortunately, lacks inspiration. There's solid advice in here, but it's hard to appreciate because the delivery is awkwardly self-congratulatory and at times patronizing.

[Rick Cummings · Rating 5 out of 5]

...in reading Lauren Maillan Bias's book, several things crossed my mind, her natural, accessible writing style...despite her accomplishments, in the book, she utilizes her relationships with other accomplished entrepreneurs and integrates their wisdom with her own, and her discussion of how to motivate and engage Gen Y employees is invaluable. Further, the mindset and challenges of young and female entrepreneurship is explored clearly and accessibly.

If you're considering entrepreneurship...start your library with this book, if you're an entrepreneur (especially if you deal with Gen Y employees) purchase this book in order to enhance your library, and if you are curious about young entrepreneurship...this book has the guidance necessary for you to consider and/or initiate action.

[Tracee - LN · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book in the first reads giveaway. I entered to win this book thinking I could use all the help I could get in business, and to perhaps read some advice I hadn't heard before.
Well, I can say that I did like this book the more I kept reading. Initially, I was a bit turned off. I did receive some good advice. Some of the advice I'd heard before, but she communicated it differently and in a way that made a bit more sense to me.