Are You Lost or Found?: Recognizing the Wake Up Call

For almost 10 years, I spoke to captivated students and professionals about the "Lost or Found" analogy that covers critical everyday life-changing issues on leadership, relationship, management, and the complexities of dealing with change, personal growth and self-restoration. One of the commonality of concerns raised by those surveyed for this book was why "most employees joined their corporations with a high sense of commitment, enthusiasm and satisfaction and over time, lost their motivation and focus and literarily functioned as non-inspired employees driven solely by financial needs and/or dependence? Over the years I observed how some of these professionals took on increasing levels of stress and anxiety over problems they couldn't control. To assist with strategies of addressing stress and change, I began to discuss a concept known as "peaceful anxiety." Peaceful Anxiety simply means, If you do not have the ability to change events and situations that impact your life, do not overreact to such situations. As we develop the ability to control our reactions to problems or issues outside our realms of control, we begin to develop a higher sense of peace. In 2002, a set of questions were developed and over 1500 undergraduate and graduate students with professional careers ranging from mid to executive levels were surveyed. My overall findings lead to this book being titled, Are You Lost or Found? Ever Wondered: - The percentages of women who prefer male bosses? - The percentages of men who prefer female bosses? - Why 62% of professionals are Lost? - If you are Lost or Found?

Dr. Sylvester Fadal embraced business optimization and efficiency building within corporations, years ago. His published doctoral dissertation study on Fortune 500 corporations titled "Employee Empowerment as a Business Optimization Strategy" was widely received by training and organizational development professionals. A synopsis of his findings was published by the American Society for Training and Development. Dr. Fadal was invited to speak by various refereed journals and institutions on the subject of performance optimization, organizational capacity building, efficiency and productivity and individual growth. As a professor of business he has shared the information in this book with his students for almost 10 years. With a strong passion for the world disadvantaged that lead to the formation of Fadal & Associates 501 © 3 non-profit that reaches out to low income individuals in the greater Bay Area and Africa, he continues to galvanize support for the world poorest people. His goals are spiritual, family and philanthropy. Some proceeds from this book will be used to support his not-for-profit foundation that seek to feed the poor and open doors to those whose lives are being destroyed by AIDS, poverty, child slavery, abandonment and starvation among others. A stronger act of kindness is to give to those that can't give back. Dr. Fadal is married with three children and resides in Northern California, USA.