Springboard
Subtitle: launching your personal search for success
By: G. Richard Shell
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781591845478
Subjects: Satisfaction; Self-realization; Job satisfaction; Success
Description: The author, a teacher at the Wharton School of Business, has written a book on achieving success. In it he posits the basic premise of his presentation: there is no foolproof system that always leads to success. That said, he nevertheless goes on to unfold a program that rests on two factors: Goal clarification (which means, of course, that a personal definition of success must be arrived at), and resources and initiatives needed to achieve success. In well-ordered chapters, he develops the stages of his program for success, one important feature of which is determining what you do better than most people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: The First Question: What Is Success?  The first answer: choose your life; title: An easy answer: be happy; title: Society's answer: seek status, fame, and fortune; title: An inspired answer: find meaningful work.; title: The Second Question: How Will I Achieve It?  Discover what you can do better than most: capabilities; title: Set yourself on fire: motivation; title: Learn to fail: self-confidence; title: Focus your mind: passion, imagination, intuition, and reason; title: Influence others: credibility and dialogue; title: The right answers.