How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement - Softcover

McDermott, Steve

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9780138138103: How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

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ISBN 10: 0138138109 ISBN 13: 9780138138103

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2008

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Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably?

Steve McDermott’s spent years studying the world’s greatest failures: those extraordinary individuals who’ve spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. They all use the exact same skills and strategies--and you can learn them, too. (Maybe you know some already!) In this quick, incredibly practical guide to failure, McDermott brings together dozens of state-of-the-art techniques guaranteed to help you crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. In just minutes, discover how to fail at...

� Leadership � Relationships � Personal growth � Achieving happiness

� Teamwork � Planning � Goal-setting � Careers

� Financial security � First impressions � And so much more!

DANGER: Do NOT attempt to reverse these techniques. If performed in the opposite fashion, they may cause spectacular success. The publisher and author will not be held responsible for wealth, happiness, or career achievements resulting from the use of these skills and strategies in reverse.

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Synopsis:

Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably? Steve McDermott's your man. For years, he's been studying failure in action: those extraordinary individuals who've massively, spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. Guess what: they all share the exact same strategies for failure: strategies they use each and every day to become total washouts. Now, McDermott's brought all those skills together in the quickest, most concise, most complete guide to failure ever written. You name it, this book will help you flop at it: leadership, communication, teamwork, customer service, and a whole lot more. You'll even learn how to make an absolutely horrid first impression. This book was an international bestseller (so that's why there's so much failure and incompetence everywhere you look!) Now, in this version updated for US audiences, McDermott's back with even more techniques, new stories, actions not to take, and exercises not to try. You'll find dozens of classic techniques guaranteed to help you fail, plus five brand new ways to crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. (Hey! It just occurred to us...you could read this book and do the exact opposite of everything Steve McDermott tells you to do.

If you did that, you'd be a complete and utter success, wouldn't you? Umm...nahhh, just a thought...better forget we mentioned it.)

About the Author:

Steve McDermott is one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, personal coaches, trainers, and consultants. The world’s #1 expert on failure, he’s been featured on everything from CNN to BBC Radio.

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