This book is written for senior executive leaders to help them improve their leadership effectiveness and win the war for top talent.Senior executive leaders have the distinct challenge of leading company strategy, ensuring excellent execution, and inspiring their teams to deliver on today's challenges while making difficult decisions to meet the marketplace needs of the future. Top talent are the lifeblood of a company. They provide the energy and initiative to get the work done today combined with the hunger and openness to learn what is essential for the company to succeed in the future. Their names are in the "top box" to become the future senior executive leaders of the company. Businesses are under increasing pressure and the threat of extinction is real and present for most companies, both large and small. The lessons in this book can help senior executive leaders and the top talent on their teams make their businesses more competitive in order to accomplish their goals. Why am I qualified to share some perspective on these two groups? I understand the journey of these two groups as I have a unique perspective having lived in both camps as a senior executive leader and as a top talent on a corporate career path. I also can speak to having left a strong career track in the prime of my career with a great, multi-national healthcare company to build and scale high growth healthcare companies as an entrepreneur. I have had several successful endeavors and a few very painful failures along with the scars to prove it. In addition, as a combat veteran and graduate of West Point, I bring additional experience and perspective on the essentials of leadership that provided the foundation to support me through this journey. Looking Back provides an authentic assessment of the challenges of leading large companies and entrepreneurial ventures in order to provide leaders with relevant and practical steps to increase their leadership effectiveness.