Profit from Experience: A Guide to Knowing Yourself and Influencing Others. This item is unavailable.Profit from Experience: A Guide to Knowing Yourself and Influencing Others

Dr. Michael O'Brien shares his expertise in cognitive psychology and change management to help readers consciously improve outlooks, habits, and patterns of behavior. The twenty-one simple exercises in this handbook include: Where Does It Hurt? An intimate examination of what you want to change, Tiger Hunting Identifying and assessing fears, Gathering Feedback How you really affect others, The Left-Hand Column Analyzing events to get to the root of assumptions, Dialogue Using conversation to learn, not compete.

Dr. Michael O'Brien is president of the O Brien Group, an executive coaching consultancy with an international clientele. Widely recognized for his expertise in the role played by personal psychology in leadership and change management, he has conducted hundreds of seminars and given numerous keynote presentations on the subject in the course of a twenty-five-year career. He is author of Quicksilver: A Revolutionary Way to Lead the Many and the Few--Beginning with YOU. His clientele includes such companies as NYNEX, Bayer, AT&T, Xerox, Prudential, Convergys, Sun Life, Catholic Healthcare Partners, New York Life, and Procter & Gamble. He holds a master's degree in education and a doctorate in human resources development. Larry Shook is a veteran journalist, publisher, editor and communications consultant. He has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. His reporting has won several of the nation's top journalism awards.