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SPRINGBOARD : Launching Your Personal Search For Success

G. Richard Shell
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G. Richard Shell
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A New Way To Lead & Transform Into A Fruitful Life By The Inside-Out Approach

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ISBN 9781591845478
Book Condition WELL USED
Format HARDCOVER
Publisher Portfolio Penguin
Publication Date 15 Aug 2013
Pages 302
Weight 0.65 kg
Dimension 23.6 × 16 × 3 cm
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★★ A New Way To Look At Success That Can Effectively Transform Your Life ★★

★★ Your Time Is Limited, So. Don’t Waste Time It Living Someone Else’s Life -Steve Jobs★★
 
This New York Times Bestseller in paperback edition is a Preloved book wrapped with protective book-wrapper.
 
Everyone knows that you are supposed to “follow your dream.” But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is?
 
You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions:
✔ What, for me, is success?
✔ How will I achieve it?
 
In another words, this insightful book answers the ultimate questions in life :
◆ What Do I Want From Life ?
◆ What is success to you?
◆ Where do your ideas and opinions on success come from?
◆ Are they your own, or are you striving to achieve someone else’s idea of what success is for you


From the creator of the popular Success Course at the Wharton School of Business. Shell’s ‘Springboard’ successfully gives you a foundation to understand what is important to you and how to move toward being more happy. The answers can’t come from the outside.
 
You have to search your heart and engage these questions honestly to discover insights that go far beyond conventional notions of fame, fortune, and happiness. You will begin by assessing your current beliefs about success, including the hidden influences of family, media, and culture. These are where the pressures to live “someone else’s life” come from.
 
Once you gain perspective on these outside forces, you will be ready to look inside at your unique combination of passions and capabilities. The goal: to focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life and less on what you are “supposed” to want.
 
Shell provides interesting perspectives to help readers reveal their own answers to these critical questions. One of the more fascinating methods he describes is the Six Lives Exercise. Individuals read six biographical sketches of people in various professions then rank the people from most to least successful.
 
It can be a revelation to some professionals who verbally offer praise for professions like teachers or athletes but hold those same individuals in lesser regard when contemplating the definition of success. Springboard book is a very thoughtful, common sense guide to defining success, assessing your unique skills, and getting on a path to finding meaningful work.
 
Therefore, it successfully gives you a foundation to understand what is important to you and how to move toward being more happy. Drawing on his decades of research, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths.
 
He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers. Shell helps readers reach a new level of understanding by suggesting that success is rooted in meaningful work. He provides seven foundations for this idea (that form the acronym PERFECT) and encourages readers by reminding them, “the distance between a job or career and ‘meaningful work’ is often shorter than you think.”
 
The latter half of Shell’s book is devoted to the tools required to help you achieve your vision of success. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Shell is not suggesting that readers try to replicate his own path to happiness. Springboard is to books what the idea of success is to its readers, completely unique.
 
Throughout, he shares inspiring examples of people who found what they were meant to do by embracing their own true measure of success.
◆ Eric Adler: one of Shell’s former students who walked away from a conventional business career to help launch a revolutionary new concept in public education that has placed hundreds of inner-city high school students in top colleges.
◆ Kurt Timken: a Harvard-educated son of a Fortune 500 CEO who found his true calling as a hard-charging police officer fighting drug lords in southern California.
◆ Cynthia Stafford: an office worker who became one of her community’s leading promoters of theater and the arts. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime—one that will help you reevaluate your future and envision success on your own terms. Students and executives say that Richard Shell’s courses have changed their lives. Let this book change yours.
 
In the first part of the book, the reader learns about developing his or her own definition of success—a process that includes determining the ideal life to lead and redefining happiness as something beyond family, friends, and fortune.
 
Citing research on happiness and wealth, as well as anecdotes and spiritual wisdom, Shell concludes that meaningful work—i.e., work that uses your talents, ignites you emotionally, and is financially rewarding, in addition to building health and strong relationships—is the true measure of success.
 
The latter half of the book illustrates the most viable way to pursue this new concept of prosperity:
● expand your social circle,
● increase your self-confidence,
● and focus on your unique skill set.
 
Along the way, Shell incorporates worksheets and exercises, and he shares stories about people at different points in their careers, from Ivy League business school students to would-be retirees, who reinvented themselves to become happy, well-rounded individuals whose work inspires them and benefits larger communities.
 
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. Shell teaches at the Wharton School of Business, and in addition to his 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.
 
The author’s honesty is established early on as he posits the basic premise of his presentation, “There is no foolproof system that always leads to success.” That said—that admitted to—he nevertheless goes on to unfold a wise program that rests on two factors: one must clarify one’s goals (which means, of course, that a personal definition of success must be arrived at), and the resources and initiatives you need to achieve success should be identified.
 
“Springboard” does not tell you how to achieve fame or fortune. Shell warns that the unexamined pursuit of such things can turn you into a success addict—a hungry ghost—unable to feed an ever-expanding appetite for such status symbols. Nor does the book succumb to the cult of ambition or the supposed power of positive thinking. Happiness is not the goal; self-knowledge is. Shell asks, “What, in the end, do you think success really is? And with that idea in mind, what specific steps can you take to achieve it?”
 
At the end of this book, Richard will help you understand how to:
✘ Realize it’s not too late to launch your search for success
✘ Determine what you can do better than most
✘ Strike the balance between the two sides of success
✘ Understand the positive value of negative emotions
✘ Challenge your assumptions about success
✘ Place equal importance on inner satisfaction and outer rewards
✘ And much more
 
Because it focuses on you, and not it, “Springboard” will provide you the tools to align your expectations with your defined values and your unique capabilities. It will help you identify what truly motivates you most, and how to “stay on course by returning to these sources of energy each and every day.”
 
The process will require some work from you—the reader; Shell will have you searching inside yourself and answering some often difficult questions about what you truly want and why, but in the end, you will be that much closer to your most authentic—and successful—self.
 
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Review From Publishers Weekly
 
Shell offers a guide to a more fruitful life based on his popular Success Course at the Wharton School of Business. In the first part of the book, the reader learns about developing his or her own definition of success—a process that includes determining the ideal life to lead and redefining happiness as something beyond family, friends, and fortune.
 
Citing research on happiness and wealth, as well as anecdotes and spiritual wisdom, Shell concludes that meaningful work—i.e., work that uses your talents, ignites you emotionally, and is financially rewarding, in addition to building health and strong relationships—is the true measure of success.
 
The latter half of the book illustrates the most viable way to pursue this new concept of prosperity: expand your social circle, increase your self-confidence, and focus on your unique skill set. Along the way, Shell incorporates worksheets and exercises, and he shares stories about people at different points in their careers, from Ivy League business school students to would-be retirees, who reinvented themselves to become happy, well-rounded individuals whose work inspires them and benefits larger communities.
 
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.
 
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About the Author :
 
G. RICHARD SHELL is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School. The creator of Wharton’s popular “Success Course ,” his previous books include the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. He lives with his family near Philadelphia.
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