Secret Stories of Leadership, Growth, and Innovation is a firsthand account of how multibillion-dollar categories and industries are built and how organized commerce and special interest groups battle. One of the key themes of the audiobook is showcasing how "effective" leadership resulted in billions earned and how "ineffective" leadership resulted in missed opportunities and disaster.

In Secret Stories of Leadership, Growth, and Innovation, entrepreneur David Radlo follows up the 11 principles of leadership, growth, and innovation found in his first book, The Principles of Cartel Disruption, and adds a 12th secret and hidden key principle. David gives a rare glimpse into commercial negotiations and successful back-channel diplomacy with former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and focuses on local and worldwide effective sustainability and Environmental Social Governance (ESG).

Focusing on the difference between a disruptive mindset and a cartel mindset, David reflects on the lessons from Cartel Disruption and his Forbes books radio podcast, Sustainable Leadership, and Disruptive Growth, aligning third-party narratives with his real-life situations. David details the greatest strategic planning and execution mistake in food and agricultural consumer product marketing history as well as giving you the details of his roller-coaster ride in exiting the business.

Interested in know what it's like to deal with Fidel Castro, free dissident prisoners through back-channel diplomacy, or build a billion-dollar specialty egg market of "egg-land’s best, born free, free range, and organic"? How about how we became cage-free and an alternative protein nation? Would you like to learn about the business rationale for local golf club alleged discrimination and how to handle it in a cartel-disruptor style? How about learning the secret and hidden cartel leadership rules? How about ways to give back with time, talent, contacts, and finance to sustainably transform for a safer, new, and better world?