Description
SKILLS FOR SUCCESS will speed up the pace of your progress upward. It explores the big problems, but doesn't ignore the nagging little ones.
It tells you, in succinct fashion, how to improve yourself:
Start your lifetime "To Do" list with "Set Goals."
Take these eight steps to better decision-making.
Learn these six ways to become a talented speaker.
Make decisions-the right ones-fast.
Top leaders tell their secrets of success:
Coach Tom Landry's easy method of getting the top priority tasks done - today.
Robert "Further Up the Organization" Townsend offers his two rules for successful hiring.
Former ITT head Harold Geneen says the ability to lead can be acquired. Read and learn how.
Test yourself while reading this book:
How well organized are you? (Lots on gaining efficiency.)
Afraid of burnout? (Make it a positive.)
Can you motivate people? (Learn how-fast.)
Are the little things slowing your pace?
Do you fear speaking in public? Jeffrey P. Davidson will help you over that hurdle.
Slow reader? Just "point" and speed up, says Dr. PhyllisA. Miller, a reading specialist. It works.
Buried in paperwork? Stephanie Winston will help you to extricate yourself.
Skills for Success is a distillation of the best ideas on achieving success, taken from the more than 300 Soundview Executive Book Summaries published in the past ten-plus years. It gives you the ideas and how-to that can make the difference between your personal success and failure.
