Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success - Softcover

Shell, G Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591847001 ISBN 13: 9781591847007

Publisher: Portfolio, 2014

Synopsis

Wharton professor Richard Shell created the Success Course to help his world-class MBA students answer two questions that aren't as obvious as they seem: "What, for me, is success?" and "How will I achieve it?"

Based on that acclaimed course, Springboard shows how to assess the hidden influences of family, media, and culture on your beliefs about success. Then it helps you figure out your unique passions and capabilities, so you can focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life, and less on what you are "supposed" to want.

About this title

Review:

"Springboard is our pick for Business Book of the Year, the one we believe best helps those in business define success and achieve it. [It is] an even handed, well researched, and thoroughly humanistic book [that] needs to find a home on the shelves--and in the hearts and minds--of anyone who wants to be more successful."
- 800CEOREAD, Winner of the 2013 Best Business Book of the Year

"In addition to [Shell's] obvious expertise in the specialties of negotiation, persuasion, and interpersonal influence, his outstanding book on achieving success has exactly what this kind of examination needs, common sense and encouragement."
--Booklist (STARRED review)

"Shell's nine steps to success are simple enough to follow, and readers may come away believing that a more prosperous life is attainable with a few tweaks and a little soul searching."
--Publishers Weekly

"Written with expert cadence, this book manages to be an 'easy read' without skimping on quality. Shell provides ample research findings, anecdotes, and the expert guidance he's gleaned from his work in the field."
--800CEOREAD's "Books to Watch: August 2013"

From the Back Cover:

'Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life'
Steve Jobs

Everyone knows that you are supposed to 'follow your dream'. But where is the map to help you discover that dream?

In Springboard, award-winning author and Wharton School professor G. Richard Shell challenges you to set aside ideas of success as defined by society, family, and the media. Instead he asks you to honestly answer two questions: What, for me, is success? How will I achieve it?

Drawing on decades of research, Shell helps you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. By identifying your unique passions and capabilities you will focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life.

Get ready for the journey of a lifetime - one that will help you reevaluate your future and achieve success on your own terms. Students and executives say that G. Richard Shell's courses have changed their lives. Let this book change yours.

'This inspiring guide will give you the tools to turn your calling into your Monday morning reality'
-Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

About this edition

• Publisher: Portfolio
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1591847001
• ISBN 13: 9781591847007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320