The Real Truth about Success: What the Top 1% Do Differently, Why They Won't Tell You, and How You Can Do It Anyway! (BUSINESS BOOKS) - Hardcover

Wynn, Garrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071629963 ISBN 13: 9780071629966

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2009

Synopsis

"Everyone is looking for the real in whatever they endeavor. Garrison Wynn went out looking for real answers to real success challenges--and he found them. If you want them, get this book real fast!"
--Jeffrey Gitomer, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Little Red Book of Selling

Life and business aren’t fair,which is good. If they were, you couldn’tseize the unfair advantage.

Think about it. Is your CEO the smartestperson in the company? Is the head of yourdepartment more driven than you? Does theleading company in your industry make thebest products? Probably not. They all have onething in common, though: They’re on top ofthe pile because they discovered and exploitedtheir unfair advantage―and with the helpof business expert and motivational dynamoGarrison Wynn, you can do the same.

The Real Truth about Success is the culminationof ten years’ worth of interviews with morethan 5,000 top performers in their fields.During the process, Wynn discovered thatbetter brains, a positive attitude, and superiorall-around quality rarely drive true success.Rather, the most successful people inthe world leverage their unique, distinctivequalities―whatever they may be―to propelthemselves to the front of the line.

In The RealTruth about Success, Wynn helps you:

• Discover (or create) your ownpersonal advantage
• Align it with the most appropriate goals
• Transition from self-knowledge to repeatableimplementation
• Relentlessly put your advantage to practical use
• Bask in the sunshine of well-deserved success

All of us have a personal advantage we canuse to stack the cards in our own favor.What’s yours? High intelligence? Good looks?Likability? Great connections? (Your unfairadvantage may well be a talent for leveragingother peoples’ unfair advantage.)

Refreshingly (sometimes brutally) honestabout what it takes to get to the top, The RealTruth about Success blows the lid off the secretof their success―so you can make it the secretof your success.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Learn How to Seize the Unfair Advantage!

"Very quotable and brutally honest."
--David Stephenson, CEO, American Concrete

"Funny, and dead on! I want all of my employees to read this book. This is not another self-help motivational book, far from it. It's about developing your own tools to find your own path to success."
--Keith Baizer, Mayor of Creativity, Art Mart

"Garrison shows it's not cheating to use the advantages we have over others to win and stay on top. One of the key reasons some pretty unimpressive people are superstars is willingness."
--Byron Haney, Director, Financial Advisory, Farmers Insurance

"This book shows you how to win an unfair fight! It's filled with those secret truths that can be impossible to learn on your own."
--Shep Hyken, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Cult of the Customer

"As he thoughtfully debunks conventional wisdom, Wynn provides high-impact insights for success in this fast-moving, humorous, and entertaining book."
--Wiliam F. Murdy, Chairman and CEO, Comfort Systems USA

About the Author:

Garrison Wynn is a former professional stand-up comedian and the founder of Wynn Solutions, a firm that provides business strategies and influence techniques to audiences around the world. In his teens, Wynn worked with Magnavox and Hank Aaron to promote the worlds first video gaming system, and by age 27, he became the youngest department head in a Fortune 500 companys history. He lives in Houston, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0071629963
• ISBN 13: 9780071629966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224