The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People

Donald Van de Mark

ISBN 10: 0984606122 / ISBN 13: 9780984606122

Published by Columbia Island Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People
• Publisher: Columbia Island Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984606122
• ISBN 13: 9780984606122
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 13 ounces

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Synopsis

The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative and Joyous People offers an in-depth look at the qualities that make a few high achievers also good people.  Using lively stories drawn from his more than 25 years interviewing prominent leaders for CNN, CNBC, and other television news programs, author Donald Van de Mark illustrates the 19 personality traits of self-actualized people, as originally identified by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

Van de Mark shows how the traits are exhibited by wonderful, successful people in all walks of life, spanning the famous (Meryl Streep, Charles Schwab, and Andrew Weil) to the great but not well known (Poosie Orr, mother and housewife; Rachel Walton, pediatric hospice nurse; and Andrew Ferguson, teacher).

Practical, common-sense guidelines and Takeaways after every chapter show readers how they can identify and nurture the traits in themselves and others, creating the shortest route possible to personal and professional achievement and fulfillment.

About the Author

Donald Van de Mark has spent over 25 years as a groundbreaking broadcast journalist. He was among the journalists who created the first business news shows on television and was the first Washington correspondent for CNBC. After a stint as Director of Corporate Communications for Barry Diller, then Chairman and CEO of QVC, Inc., he returned to reporting and joined CNN, where he edited and co-anchored MoneyWeek, as well as four additional shows that ran daily on CNNfn. In 1999, he became the cofounder of MyPrimeTime, Inc., a media startup devoted to personal and professional development for Baby Boomers, where he wrote and anchored two television series, Great Entrepreneurs and Great Leaders. A successful motivational speaker, he lives in Sonoma, California.