About the Book
2018 Axiom Business Book Award for the Best Motivation, Success and Coaching Book - Silver Medal
2017 Book Excellence Award Winner for Best Management Book - Toronto, Canada
2017/2018 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Literary Award for the Best Business Book
Drawing inspiration from the epic story of the Apollo Moon Program, collected research, and his own life experiences, Dr. Anthony Paustian outlines the many small steps it takes to achieve anything great in life. With the practical tools described in this imaginative, easy-to-read book, A Quarter Million Steps teaches the reader how to affect change and create success through imagination, creative problem-solving, effective leadership, mental focus, work ethic, teamwork, and an understanding of the role of perception. The reader will learn less about what to think and more about how to think.
About the Author :
Anthony Paustian holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and graduate degrees in business administration and design. With decades of experience in strategic leadership, he has a broad understanding of what actually works in daily practice. From his Air Force days on fighter aircraft to becoming a corporate leader building national brands, Dr. Paustian was given an uncommon opportunity in life--to design and build a technology-focused college campus from scratch. Since its opening, the campus has regularly appeared in national media and won many awards including being recognized as one of the nation's most innovative organizations.
Colonel Alfred Worden is a graduate of United States Military Academy at West Point and holds graduate degrees in aeronautical and instrumentation engineering including an honorary doctorate of science degree in astronautical engineering. Following many years as an Air Force test pilot and instructor, Col. Worden was one of 19 astronauts selected by NASA in 1966. He served as the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 Moon mission from July 26-August 7, 1971.
Review :
Any leader today must understand how to drive change and shape the future. The engine of change is innovation, its fuel is creativity. This empowering book provides both the inspiration and the pragmatic steps to help you become a future shaper. Through his rare blend of experiences and unique insights, Dr. Anthony Paustian uses one of the greatest examples in human history, the Apollo space program, to illustrate key takeaways of how you can harness your creativity to generate meaningful innovation and shape new frontiers.
--Gabor George Burt, global strategy and innovation pioneer, author of the bestselling book, Slingshot
Drawing inspiration from perhaps the most remarkable feat of human imagineering in history, the Apollo Space Program, Dr. Paustian demonstrates the specific characteristics required to achieve something remarkable in life today in his fascinating new book, A Quarter Million Steps. This highly readable book is peppered with entertaining personal and historical anecdotes that provide a how-to guide to unlocking your imagination, creativity and leadership potential.
--Dr. Niall McCann, explorer, biologist, and host of the Biggest and Baddest on Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild
When reading Dr. Paustian's latest book, A Quarter Million Steps, it quickly becomes apparent that this book was written from a deep passion for innovative thinking. Perhaps that's what makes the written words so luminous. This highly readable and infinitely intriguing book offers a roadmap to achievement. He explains methods for enhancing imagination and introduces the possibility of gaining new perspectives through various exercises. These ideas help tie everything together in a very elegant, intelligent, and logical way, while providing insight to solving problems that can seem insurmountable. The ideas presented are tremendously inspiring and empowering, and they will resonate with anyone who is interested in following their dreams and enhancing their success.
--Jon Wellner, actor (CSI Las Vegas and Oceans Thirteen) and co-founder of Entertainment Research, Inc.
Dr. Paustian's book uniquely addresses leadership and how it must be applied in all of our lives, now more than ever. It's a great read!
--Captain Gene Cernan, Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and 17 astronaut; the last man to walk on the moon
I loved reading this book. As a science enthusiast from my many years on MythBusters, the journey from inspiration to innovation has always fascinated me. A Quarter-Million Steps could easily be considered an instruction manual for helping creative souls become the great leaders and innovators vital for our future. We need this book now more than ever.
--Kari Bryon, co-host of Discovery Channel's MythBusters and co-host of White Rabbit Project on Netflix
Reading Anthony's book made me think about why I do what I do. That never-ending inspiration, invention, creation, and dedication are what forces us to become dreamers and leaders. Understanding that failure is a path to success is one of the most important lessons I have learned through life. A Quarter-Million Steps takes us on multiple scenarios through time and space, trial and error, and blood, sweat, and tears, giving us the gift that someday every kid could realize their dream if they want it bad enough.
--Howard Berger, Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects and make-up artist
A Quarter-Million Steps: Creativity, Imagination and Leading Transformative Change blends business and success stories from the Apollo Moon Program with insights from the author's own life. The result is a bigger-picture survey of what types of actions make for lasting changes and create foundational principles. The book offers an encouraging set of tools for setting and reaching goals.
At first this may sound like many other inspirational approaches, but A Quarter-Million Steps holds an important difference in that it focuses on more than tools, telling how to craft and stay true to a mindset that embraces and creates them.
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A Quarter-Million Steps is highly recommended not just for business or self-help readers, but for artists, thinkers, creators and inventors, and any who want to place themselves in these categories.
--Midwest Book Review
