Pushing The Envelope
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- €10.99
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- €10.99
Publisher Description
'An extraordinary treasure chest of information you can apply immediately to your business, your life, your relationships and your goal' Kenneth Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager.The man who taught us how to swim with the sharks is back with a boatload of tips and techniques for becoming successful and savvy in everything we do.To Harvey Mackay 'pushing the envelope' means pushing the boundaries and yourself to maximise your advantage - to be better, faster and smarter and to get the results you want in business and in life.Totally engaging, fun to read with lively and succinct commentary on how to succeed in life. The book clearly explains what separates the winners from the losers. Harvey Mackay knows all the tricks of the trade and shares them. He advises on appearance, creativity, motivation, customer service, knowing your friends and avoiding your enemies, negotiating tactics and shows you how to make every day count. As Harvey says, 'All things come to those who go after them'.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mackay (Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive) is back, and his motivational material will be familiar and comforting to his fans. Mackay has never claimed to be an intellectual. Using the same approach he has in the past, the author, who is chairman and chief executive of a $75-million envelope company when he's not on the lecture circuit, tells true short stories (usually in approximately four pages with big type and margins), each of which makes a point about the business of life and is capped with a lesson dubbed "Mackay's Moral" ("Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it, until you get there"; "Even the Lone Ranger didn't go it alone"). To his credit, Mackay admits when he is revisiting familiar territory or expanding tales he has told before. This time, he concentrates more heavily on stories intended to inspire--there are countless vignettes of people who worked hard to overcome long odds--and provides more of his thoughts on what it takes to be a leader. As always, his homilies are entertaining, even if they rarely provide any groundbreaking bits of wisdom. Author tour.