One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called "What It Takes to Be Great." Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.
Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and realworld examples. He shows that the skills of business negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.
This new mindset, combined with Colvin's practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.
For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the noboysallowed guide to everything from schoolyard games to great women in history....
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Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....
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This is how wars are fought now: by children, hoppedup on drugs and wielding AK47s. Here is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty....
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In this hilarious collection, you'll find essays like "Thoughts About My First Agent's Girlfriend's Vagina", wherein Olivia skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood....
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home....
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After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, 28yearold Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his 73yearold dad....
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Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different, they are inseparable. Both are living a carefree life....
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Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....
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Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....
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Recapture Sunday afternoons and long summer days. This is a wonderful collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun....
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First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment....
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Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political....
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Paul Boehmer, Roxanne Hernandez, Don Leslie, Stefan Rudnicki, Judy Young
Publisher
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Zondervan
Normal Retail Price
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$ 20.24
Audible Price
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$ 19.93
Filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews finally ink a deal with the nation's top young actor....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
audio-book provider. Audible is responsible for supplying audio
content to Apple's ITunes service. I have been listening,
enjoying and creating audio books for many years. With
the arrival of the internet and portable digital devices,
audio-books began to become availalbe for download.
Having tried most of
the other download services myself, I finally came to
the conclusion that Audible offers the best and most
reliable service. Whether you are using an IPod, IPhone,
mobile phone, Dune or one of the many other MP3 players
availalbe, Audilbe makes downloading great quality audio
content easy and umcomplicated.
In addition to this, Audible also boasts the most comprehensive collection
of audio books anywhere. Depending on the promotion currently on
offer, you can download any audiobook of your
choice for free (including almost
certainly the title on this
page, too).
This link will take you to Audible...
All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
enjoyable.
Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
Indeed, now that the digital age is upon, listening to your
favourite novel, biography or factual book has become
incredibly easy. Digital audiobooks weigh nothing and can be
easily downloaded in mp3, wma or other format to an almost
limitless number of mobile devices, including ipods, iphone,
zune, android, laptops, PCs and mobile phones.
Just imagine listening to a bestselling classic while
driving. Good audiobooks really do take the boredom out of
travel and long car journeys. Thanks to Ipod and co. you
don’t even need a CD player anymore! And there are many
thousands of great audiobooks to choose in an incredibly
diverse range of categories. From comedy to business and
from children’s to Adult, you are guaranteed to find your
downloadable favourite.
Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
books that can be downloaded from audible. At audible
audiobooks you get your own online library, which makes
downloading a piece of cake. You can then easily move them
over to your Ipod or mp3 player. You can also sign up for
the trial and get a
free audiobook.
