I just did a
book review on
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
It's not business specific per se but goes into the principles that drive some of the most successful people in the world today, many of them successful businesspeople.
You can read the
book review at Life Coaches Blog, or check out the short summary here:
Quote:
What Is Success Built To Last?
Authors Jerry Porras (of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies), Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson interviewed over 200 high achievers all over the world, over a ten year period and distilled their secrets into this amazing book.
And get this: everyone who was interviewed had to have had at least a track record of 20 years of enduring success, not just by the social benchmarks of success; fame, power or fortune, but have had made a positive impact on the world.
How To Create A Life That Matters
What I love about this book from the get-go is their insistence that there is no road-map to success.
But what they did see in their study was that there were basic principles that successful people stuck to that they attributed to their success.
The authors define success as the synergy between 3 working parts:
Meaning - how successful people stay successful,
Thoughtstyles - the extreme makeovers that start in your head,
Actionstyles - how to turn passion into action.
It was revealed that people who built successful and meaningful lives never went for fame, power or fortune, many of them believe that success never lasts if that’s all you aim for. To them, success is simply doing what you love, being damn good at it and creating an insanely big dent in the universe. The fame, power and fortune just followed.
In short, creating a life that matters.
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