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AWAD, MARK

 
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THE OTHER APPROACH

What if the problem isn't your goal—but the way you've been taught to reach it?

Most people are taught to follow the obvious path.

Work harder.
Follow the rules.
Ask the right people.
And when the answer is no, accept it.

Mark H. Awad learned to see things differently.

A small pamphlet handed to him by a stranger planted an idea that would follow him for decades: sometimes the breakthrough comes when you stop looking at a problem from your own side and begin seeing it from the other side.

That idea changed the way he approached business, real estate, financing, negotiations—and eventually his own life.

When a bank refused to finance his first hillside development, he stopped asking how to convince that bank and started asking who would see the project differently.

When experts questioned whether homes could be built on an almost impossible hillside, he didn't ignore them. He changed the question from “Can it be done?” to “What would have to be true for it to be done safely?”

And when regulations became the next mountain in his path, the same principle returned again.

The Other Approach is not about blindly doing the opposite.

It is about refusing to confuse the familiar way with the only way.

Through true stories of business, risk, rejection, opportunity, failure, and persistence, Mark H. Awad explores a simple but powerful principle:

Before you give up on what you want, question the approach you're using to get there.

Sometimes the answer isn't behind the door everyone is pushing against.

Sometimes you have to walk around the building.

MARK H. AWAD

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