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Unfinished: Lessons in Recovery, Leadership, Philanthropy, and Purpose
Paperback
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Publisher: Bob Carter Press
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Most leadership books teach you how to build a company. This one teaches you how to build a life.
Bob Carter has spent a lifetime building organisations, raising billions for causes that matter, and working alongside some of the world's most influential leaders. By almost any measure, he's been successful.
But that's only part of his story.
Behind the professional achievements are the experiences that shaped him most: the people who believed in him, the mistakes he made, the relationships that changed him, and his journey through alcoholism and recovery.
In Unfinished: Lessons in Recovery, Leadership, Philanthropy, and Purpose, Carter shares the stories behind a remarkable life, including the ones that don't fit neatly into a resume.
With honesty, humour, and hard-earned perspective, he explores what it means to lead, to fail, to ask for help, to give generously, and to keep growing long after the world might consider you successful.
Along the way, he challenges some of the assumptions we make about achievement, legacy, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Because success isn't the same as fulfilment. Leadership isn't just a title. And a life well lived isn't one without mistakes.
Part memoir, part lessons on leadership and philanthropy, Unfinished is for anyone who has built something, lost something, started over, or wondered what comes next.
It's a reminder that no matter how much you've accomplished, how many mistakes you've made, or how many years you've lived, there's always more to learn, more to give, and more life to live.
We're all unfinished.
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