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Make Your
Own Luck: Success Tactics You Won’t Learn in Business School by Peter
Morgan Kash with Tom Monte Rating: •• (Mildly Recommended) |
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Once Upon a Time With a sub-title that’s a bow to Mark
McCormick (What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School),
Peter Kash enters the motivational book market with his new book, Make Your
Own Luck: Success Tactics You Won’t Learn in Business School. While I
usually take a pass on the motivational shelf, I like a good story, and Kash
tells plenty of his own and those of others in this short book (225 pages).
The stories are interesting and upbeat, but may not relate to you or your
life. Here’s an excerpt of what Kash said he’s trying to do in the book: “The ideas I have
tried to put forth in this book represent a way of seeing life. But more
important, they are powerful ways to influence others and your environment so
that you derive the maximum rewards from life. I have tried to show how
coincidence is a sign that indicates the presence of an opportunity; that
values nurture opportunity and serve as a compass to success and personal
fulfillment; that failure and rejection are temporary but necessary
conditions on the path to success; that the courage to leap when the time is
right is essential to realizing your heart’s desire; that specializing and
becoming yourself are the surest paths to power and success. In each of these
chapters, I have tried to provide practical guidance. In this chapter, I want
to give you easy-to-follow tips for provoking the web of life, so to speak,
to act in your favor.” I especially enjoyed Kash’s approach to
values. Had he not been sloppy with facts and some quotes, this book might
have garnered another star. As is stands, reading it isn’t a bad way to spend
a plane trip. Steve Hopkins, May 15, 2002 |
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ã 2002 Hopkins and Company, LLC The
recommendation rating for this book appeared in the June 2002
issue of Executive
Times Hopkins
& Company, LLC • 723 North Kenilworth Avenue • Oak Park, IL 60302 E-mail: books@hopkinsandcompany.com |
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