publication date: May 14, 2012
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author/source: Dr. John Hogan CHA CHE CMHS
Read this short book - find your true identity 
It cannot be easy to find a novel way to write yet another book on
self-branding of the individual, but I find that Stedman Graham has
found his unique approaches and messages on ways to develop the success
to be found in each of us.
With a foreword by John Maxwell and an
afterword by Stephen Covey, one has reason to believe that the content
between the two has substance and Graham hits the mark.
Using his
Nine-Step Success Process, Graham uses interesting and believable
examples of his own life on he addressed stereotype cause and effect
situations. He offers discussion and reason for thought on how we
develop values as the base and center of our identity, as we feel it
should be, not as others say it should be.
There are Questions to Consider at the end of chapters, and nuggets of inspiration in shaded boxes throughout.
I
find Stedman Graham to be an excellent and precise writer - he gets to
the point of his message clearly and with just enough background.
I
also consider him to be a strong believer in what seems to be on the
verge of extinction - the quality and competency of "thinking." He
offers the proposition that we need to challenge the premise of
traditional learning, where we learn to be a worker who finds a job and
completes the assigned work. His dramatic point is the observation that
so many of us program ourselves (or allow up others to program us) to do
the same thing over and over and over again. Is it any wonder that so
many people change jobs? Do we really all want to do and accomplish the
absolute minimum to get by?
Graham's nine steps start with the
premise of the book title - identity. He states it is essential to be
honest with one's self and he includes inspirational stories by a number
of well-known names who hit the mark in their journeys and give us
reason to think more about ours.
Graham makes the point that we
really only have ourselves to blame if we miss the real hidden identity,
resources and purpose that we all have hidden under the surface
Read this short book - find your true identity.
Dr. John Hogan CHE CHA CMHS
Hospitality Educators
Hogan Hospitality
