Life is complicated. Leading complicates life further. Be A Bean provides 20 little lessons on life and leadership that offer a blueprint to having a positive impact, making a difference, and achieving excellence. How does one change the world? Progress, new markets, revolutions... all the product of transformational change. Managers do not seize opportunities, create new futures, and alter the landscape. Leaders do... Specifically, leaders who dare to dream big, act bold, risk failure, inspire others, and challenge the status quo. These people are the beans that refuse to be changed, but rather work to change the environment in which they exist. Be A Bean is not a book for those individuals who are satisfied with the status quo, seek to maintain their niche in the current market, or those who are willing to timidly follow others into safe waters. This is a text for those people who wish to blaze their own path, boldly go into uncharted waters, create new markets, generate innovative approaches to old problems, and foster a landscape of constant improvement in efforts to leave the world better than the one they inherited.