4 Guides to Success Under Any Conditions
Whether you’re navigating the finicky roads of office politics, or trying to overcome everyday obstacles, it can often feel like a struggle just to stay afloat! Check out 4 books of thoughtful wisdom that will guide you toward the path of success.
Whether you’re navigating the finicky roads of office politics, or trying to overcome everyday obstacles, it may feel like a struggle just to stay afloat!
Here are 4 books of thoughtful wisdom that will guide you toward the path of success and teach you how to come out on top in any situation:
In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
by Peter Schwartz
There is one central, non-controversial idea we’re taught about morality—that self-sacrifice is a virtue. Here, Peter Schwartz questions this notion. In Defense of Selfishness shows that what altruism demands is not that you respect the rights of your neighbor and refrain from acting like Attila the Hun, but rather that you subordinate yourself to others.
Schwartz rejects the entire premise of sacrifice, under which one person’s gain comes at the price of another’s loss. Instead, he proposes an alternative to altruism, whereby people deal with one another not by sacrificing but by offering value for value, to mutual benefit, and by refusing to seek the unearned.
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The One-Day Contract: How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life
by Rick Pitino with Eric Crawford
A life-changing guide to achieving your goals, by the 2013 NCAA champion college basketball coach and #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rick Pitino.
InThe One-Day Contract, Pitino details his key to success, on the court and in life: to focus on making the most of each day, by creating a contract with yourself. In this inspiring and practical guide, Coach Rick Pitino illustrates how to set your own one-day contract, and follow through to honor it for each day, each goal, and each interaction with another person. The One-Day Contract will reshape the way you approach your job, your goals, and your life.
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It’s Not About the Shark: How to Solve Unsolvable Problems
by David Niven, Ph.D.
It’s Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems—and how we solve them—upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem is exactly the wrong way to find an answer.
It’s Not About the Shark shows us how to transform our daily lives, our work lives, and our family lives with a simple, but rock-solid principle: If you start by thinking about your problems, you’ll never make it to a solution. If you start by thinking about a solution, you’ll never worry about your problems again. Combining hard facts, good sense, and a strong dose of encouragement, David Niven provides fresh and positive ways to think about problem solving.
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
Our Iceberg is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the work of Harvard’s John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help many people and organizations. The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica: a group of emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then, one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home—and pretty much no one listens to him.
Our Iceberg is Melting is based on pioneering work that shows how Eight Steps produced needed change in any sort of group. It is a story that can be enjoyed by anyone, while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that just keeps moving faster and faster.
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