A Taste of Leadership(TM): Thoughts On Leadership, Coaching, and Life

In his book, A Taste of Leadership™, Danny Valenzuela, a certified coach, and owner of Transition Execs, LLC, a coaching and leadership development company, assembles twenty of more than sixty articles he has published over the past five years. Valenzuela’s book offers a taste of some fundamental practices of leadership and becoming an effective leader. These principles can be especially valuable to new, aspiring, and experienced leaders. The book offers a taste of his ideas, experiences, readings, and observations on the subject of leadership, coaching, and life. It offers valuable thoughts, insights, ideas, and some tools on leadership that can be useful in improving employees, organizations and ourselves. Utilizing more than forty years in leadership positions in local, county, and state government, non-profits, and the private sector; he offers his thoughts on what we can do to enhance our leadership skills. Topics like overcoming our gremlin, effective communication, dealing with ambiguity, developing our legacy, emotional intelligence and the greatest gift we can give ourselves help make us authentic leaders.