Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life - Hardcover

Rao, Srikumar S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401301932 ISBN 13: 9781401301934

Publisher: Balance, 2006

Synopsis

Whether you’re looking for personal, financial, or career support, this carefully curated guidebook will help you get your life on track and prepared to reach all your goals.

The premise is simple: A person's ideal life, especially their career, can be carefully conceived and crafted. Based on Dr. Rao's popular course "Creativity and Personal Mastery" at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, this book offers a series of readings, exercises, and lessons drawn from both spiritual and commercial situations that enable you to reconstruct and improve your professional world. This transformation will turn your life around and help you become exponentially more effective in your chosen career, and thereby flourish in all aspects of your life. Whether you are questioning the value of money or the core values of your life, this book is a powerful tool that will help you to "discover the purpose that can suffuse your life and bring stars to your eyes."

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About the Author

Srikumar S. Rao is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, teaches at London Business School, and is a professor at Long Island University. A former contributing editor for Forbes, Financial World, and Success magazines, he has been featured and quoted in the national media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Fortune. He has consulted with leading corporations nationwide and holds a Ph.D. in marketing from Columbia University. He lives in Commack, New York.

Reviews

Based on the course Creativity and Personal Mastery that Rao teaches at Columbia Business School and Long Island University, this Buddhism-inspired self-help book promises readers the tools to effect fundamental life changes and find inner peace. At its heart, this is a case of Eastern philosophy leading Western MBAs along the path to self-improvement and corporate enlightenment, with a kinder and more productive working world as the ultimate goal. Rao narrates with waves of parables ("When you have one eye so firmly fixed on the goal, you have but one eye left to find the way") and introspection exercises—all designed to help executives find "effervescent joy" and discover their "purpose in life." Rao's techniques require an open mind and a belief in a "benevolent Universe" and in the notion that the negative things that happen to people are more often a matter of errant mindset and misinterpretation than reality. Will any of this actually lead readers to a higher level of self-enlightenment and make them happier at work and in life? As Rao writes, regarding the possibility of a universe that looks out for the well-being of its denizens: "Maybe yes, maybe no. Who knows?" (Jan.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Balance
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401301932
• ISBN 13: 9781401301934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272