Chef Charles Carroll is an award-winning chef who travels the world speaking on championship

thinking and personal greatness. Past president of the World Association of Chefs Societies,

he’s been lauded by five U.S. presidents for his work with U.S. troops abroad. A luminary of the

Culinary Olympics, held every four years in Germany, he is currently executive chef of Houston’s

prestigious River Oaks Country Club.

John David Mann rose to international prominence with The Go-Giver, co-authored with Bob

Burg, which has sold more than a half a million copies in two dozen languages and been hailed

as “one of the most important parables about business—and life—of our time” by Adam Grant

(Give and Take) and praised by the likes of Arianna Huffington, Brian Tracy, Seth Godin and Glenn

Beck. The Recipe is his 24th book.