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A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE, AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY HELEN BERNSTEIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISMONE OF TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2013 BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI (THE NEW YORK TIMES) AND AWASHINGTON POSTTOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BYTHE WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, THE ECONOMIST, THE SEATTLE TIMES,ANDMINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNENEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNo journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous "surge," a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed them all forever.
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David Finkel: Serial Entrepreneur and Wall Street Journal and Business Week Bestselling Author
David is an ex-Olympic level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best- selling author of 9 business and financial books, including co-authoring SCALE with Priceline.com cofounder Jeff Hoffman.
David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world's premier business coaching company which has worked with over 100,000 business owners, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David's clients enjoy an average annual growth rate of 64.2% while at the same time increase their companies' "Owner Independence" by an average of 97.4% per year. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.
His weekly business owner eletter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world and his syndicated business articles on Inc.com and Huffingtonpost.com garner over 150,000 readers every year. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.
An in demand keynote speaker, David's message of how to grow a business by strengthening its core systems, team, and culture has galvanized business audiences around the globe.
He and his wife Heather, and their three young sons live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Bragging rights:
1) Wall Street Journal and Business Week Best-Selling Author of over 25 books and home study courses 2) ?Featured in over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals in the United States. 3) Syndicated eletter is read by over 100,000 business owners weekly 4) ?Past member of United States National Field Hockey Team (2 years Captain) 5) ??Pan Am Games Bronze medalist
