Success Built To Last: Creating A Life That Matters

Success Built To Last: Creating A Life That Matters
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Chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the top 5 books of 2006 in careers. Read the full story at businessweek.com. Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work. Authored by three legends in leadership and self-help includingBuilt to Last co-author Jerry Porras it challenges conventional wisdom at every step.Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates and celebrities the rich, the famous and the unknown. Meet unsung heroes who've achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, most started out ordinary. Discover how successful people "harvest" their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their surprising failures. Discover how you can find meaning in your life and work just as they did and summon the courage to follow your passions. Above all, see how they've sustained successfor decades and you can too. Foreword by Senator John McCainAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrom Built to Last to Success Built to LastChapter 1: From Great to LastingRedefining SuccessPart I: MeaningHow Successful People Stay SuccessfulChapter 2: Love it or LosePassions and the Quest for MeaningChapter 3: Portfolio of PassionsIts Not About BalanceChapter 4: Why Successful People Stay SuccessfulIntegrity to MeaningPart II: ThoughtStylesExtreme Makeovers Start in Your HeadChapter 5: The Silent ScreamWhy Its So Damn Hard to Do What MattersChapter 6: The Cause Has CharismaYou Dont Have to Be Charismatic to Be SuccessfulChapter 7: The Tripping PointAlways Make New MistakesChapter 8: Wounds to WisdomTrusting Your Weaknesses and Using Your Core IncompetenciesPart III: ActionStylesTurning Passion into ActionChapter 9: Earning Your LuckPreparing for Serendipity by Using Big Hairy Audacious Goals Chapter 10: Naked ConversationsHarvesting ContentionChapter 11: Creating AlignmentThe Environment Always WinsThe Pleasure of Finding Things OutA Look at the Research Behind Success Built to LastEndnotesBiographical IndexIndex

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