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If you want to become a leader, you need to act like a leader. This book will show you how. Ticket to Lead is aimed at high school and college-aged young adults, including recent graduates, who want to learn how to be leaders. Whether you are in school or out, this book will teach you how to lead. If you want to lead a school club, a sports team, a student government, a social group or a charity, this is your ticket. It will also show you how to apply your leadership skills as an employee, a gig worker or the founder of your own business. Ticket to Lead is a rapid roadmap to leadership. You will learn how to become a leader sooner than you expect, while learning leadership principles that will last for a lifetime. You will also discover why learning to lead now, at this stage of your life, is so valuable to your future. You will find that the fastest and best way to become a leader is by watching and learning from other leaders. Ticket to Lead accelerates your leadership journey by explaining the behaviors and skills you need and showing you how you can learn and apply them. Once you have read the Introduction and Part One, you can read the rest of the book cover to cover or move around to the topics that interest you most. Virtually every chapter includes specific suggestions about how to improve your leadership capabilities. If you want to dig deeper now or later, you will find an appendix filled with even more leadership insights. This book can change your life. Learn to lead now, while you are still a young adult! A Note from the Author: Ticket to Lead is one of my efforts at paying things forward. Leadership changed my life. I want to help it change yours. I was a long way from being a leader during my middle and high school years. My grades were good but my social skills were poor. I was an only child, raised by my mom. We were financially challenged. I started learning to lead at t