Empower Your Self: A Framework for Personal Success - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964894912 ISBN 13: 9780964894914

Publisher: Fine Enterprises, 1999

Synopsis

In Empower Your Self, author Alan Fine provides the reader with the tools to take a personally fulfilling journey through life. Fine helps the reader explore the concepts of personal balance, refinement, and fulfillment. Moreover, Fine delivers a step-by-step framework coupled with challenging insights into personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability.

The book is separated into three sections: The first section discusses "The Dimensions of Success": Health, Companionship, Respect, Purpose, Time, and Money; the second section discusses the personally qualities required to achieve personal balance among these Dimensions of Success and how to acquire those qualities; the last section of the book presents a personal planning framework that the reader can use to compose a personal fulfillment plan (somewhat like a business plan tailored for personal use). Interspersed throughout the book are strong messages of ethics and integrity.

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About the Author

For more than a decade, Alan Raymond Fine has been successfully facilitating and implementing change in corporations in pursuit of developing, achieving, and maintaining renewed growth and success. He has extensive experience in coaching executive on leadership and management, in facilitating strategic planning efforts, and in solving strategic and operational problems in every functional area of the common business organization.

Currently, Alan Raymond Fine is a Senior Vice President, Investment Banking, at Mesirow Financial. This is a diversified financial services firm with more than 850 employees and $3 billion in assets under management. In addition, Mr. Fine also serve on the faculty of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, through the departments of Strategic Management and Organization, and Information and Decision Sciences. In addition, he is also coordinating the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at the Carlson School of Management. Mr. Fine was voted by the students and recognized by the faculty as the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year for the Carlson School of Management.

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From the foreword:

In order for organizational objectives to succeed, companies must help their people to sustain a reasonable level of personal balance. This requires an individual and collective understanding of terms such as values, empowerment, and personal fulfillment, and actions that reflect this understanding. These are not simplistic concepts as individuals often perceive them, but, rather, they require careful and deliberate attention. As companies return annually to ponder their direction and purpose, it is time that they also help individuals return to ponder and challenge, habitually and intelligently, the principles upon which they live and the goals that they are trying to achieve.

Alan's message is a good one: If you want to find fulfillment from life, you need first to understand what it is, who you are, and then how to plan for it meaningfully and expeditiously. Through this process, Alan Fine hits topics that should be important to all of us. He encourages us to dream, challenges us to achieve our true potential, and encourages us to improve our personal value systems. In other words, he attempts to raise our awareness pertaining to the things that we can do to improve ourselves and our world.

The concept called the "Dimensions of Success" raises awareness about what we all want and need from life, and the central section of the book eloquently speaks of personal refinement. Moral principles are not just identified but are supported with reasoning that help us to understand the benfit of incorporating them into our lives. Of paramount importance, Alan describes the critical nature of valuing ourselves, maximizing our usage of time, understanding the roles we play, and the issues of personal values and etiquette that shape and define personal character.

We hope that this book helps you to find fulfillment from your life and that you aspire to become the kind of mentor that he has so eloquently defined.

We applaud Alan for this effort.

Sincerely,

David S. Kidwell, Ph.D., Dean
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota

Robert W. MacGregor, President
Minnesota Center for Corporate Responsibility
(Affiliate with the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota)

Edition details

• Publisher: Fine Enterprises
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964894912
• ISBN 13: 9780964894914
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Fine Alan R., Fine Jenny
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208