Whereas last week’s guest just published his fifteenth book, this week’s guest happens to be a first-time author. It has been a lifelong dream and about three years in the making for Alice Mann, and her new book is an amazing accomplishment! (Want to publish your own book in less than 90 days? Keep reading.) Alice is the founder of Mann Advisors. She’s also a Senior Consultant at Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, a Forbes.com Leadership Columnist, and Lecturer at Columbia University. Her new book is called Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges Into New Value Frontiers. Alice’s book is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges.  Through real-life business examples ranging from Nike to Opower, she lays out how to identify and adopt the future first leadership mindset and business capabilities required to achieve lasting and integrated performance results. Alice argues that successful partnerships and alliances among big global companies and small mission-driven ones can reshape the global ecosystems of apparel, food, and energy, and remake the future of our world. Join in on our chat below Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In today’s episode, I ask Alice to share: * Some of the world’s toughest innovation challenges moving forward and how your company can play a role in helping solve them * How to change your mindset to think more like a Future First Leader * Ways that successful companies are building Future First thinking into their culture and DNA * …and much more! This Episode is Sponsored By Self-Publishing School My friend Chandler Bolt is the founder of Self-Publishing School, which is an online education company dedicated to one thing: Helping you get your book idea out of your head and onto paper as quickly as possible, and then getting your published book into the hands of as many readers as possible. Chandler is hosting a FREE training where he’ll show you the exact process to follow to go from blank page to published author in as little as 90 days, and the exact book launch blueprint to follow to launch your book to $10,000 and beyond (and earn monthly royalties month after month). If you’ve EVER thought about writing a book (whether as an extra income stream, to generate leads for your business, or to share a story you’ve wanted to tell) you OWE it to yourself to sign up for this training – and it’s completely free! Oh! And when you sign up for the training, Chandler is going to send you a copy of his book Published absolutely free! Alice’s Book You can order