"Success" is an admittedly loaded word, a concept so elusive that thousands of authors-many of them fellow businesspeople-have tried through the years to define it. Does success mean money? Status? Power? How can you know when you've been successful, and what does it take to help others achieve the same?

In Success Defined, international fintech CEO Steve Powless takes a candid look at the road that led him to the top, from a modest blue-collar beginning in Evansville, Indiana, through a series of defining moments and challenging decisions, to the conscious creation of a one-of-a-kind corporate culture centered on servant leadership, honesty, and integrity. He shares both humorous and moving "lessons learned" from the middle of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and the halls of CSI's Paducah, Kentucky headquarters ... only to arrive, finally, at what matters most of all: faith, family, and the reassuring knowledge that of the endless forms success may take, at least one thing's for sure: It doesn't mean never failing, but trying again when you do.