Businessman pens book on leadership

A local entrepreneur has written a book to offer guidance and leadership advice in daily business life.

Author Gary Wilbers said "The High Achiever Leadership Formula" is a motivational book based on six basic ingredients: high achiever mindset, leadership time solution, leadership communication loop, conflict resolution system, influence and trust-builder and strategic organization playbook.

"I wanted to take my 25 years of entrepreneurship to share what I thought people would need in daily life and business," said Wilbers, a certified high-performance coach, keynote speaker and CEO of Asend Business Strategies.

The book will be released Saturday. Orders can be placed on Amazon and goascend.biz/getmycopy.

Wilbers took four months to write the book, which focuses on business and personal standpoints with strategies that can work for readers.

Not only does the book cover leadership strategies, but struggles faced by business leaders. Dealing with resistance to change, for instance.

Wilbers said the book also delves into how people prioritize their schedules and how all the pieces fit together in their life. "It isn't only a reflection on their work, but on themselves," he said.

Throughout the book, Wilbers shares personal stories about the trials in his life.

"I don't want people to think they have to be in business to read it," he said.

The book also tells how life itself contributes to leadership. "We have to be leaders of ourselves before we can be leaders of our lives," Wilbers said.

He said the book goes into how there are no limits to leadership and how being a leader comes into play in life.

"Leadership is about self-worth first, and then their external title," Wilbers said, noting everyone is a leader in some way in their life.

"To me, if we have a climber mindset, then we are willing to learn, grow and change, and I believe this book will help us develop that mindset so we can apply it to our lives," Wilbers said.