The Success Factor

Edition: 1 Date: 03/01/2022 Price: £19.99 ISBN Paperback: 9781398602298 ISBN Ebook: 9781398602304 Pages: 240 Format (mm): 233x155 Product Category: Professional Subject: Business & Management

Skills

«Features interviews with high achievers including Nobel laureates, astronauts and Olympic champions (including such people as Dr. Tony Fauci NIH (NIAID) Institute Director; Dr. Mike Brown,

Nobel prize winner; Dr. Peggy Whitson, Former Chief Astronaut, NASA; Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop) « Outlines practices to help readers identify their passions, find mentors, develop a team of mentors, establish a community of practice and pursue informal learning « Online resources include a downloadable Passion audit, a goal audit worksheet and a mentoring team worksheet

Description

What do astronauts, Olympic champions, and Nobel laureates do differently that allows them to achieve at such a high level?

High achievers share the same four attributes: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means. The key to their success is that they do all four of these things at the same time. Based on research and in-person interviews with astronauts, Nobel Prize winners, and Olympic champions, The Success Factor outlines the approach that individuals aspiring to improve their performance can adopt.

Using these four shared attributes as a guide, The Success Factor helps you reach your peak by applying the lessons of high achievers in your own life: identify your passion using a Passion Audit; learn how and where to find a mentor and how to build a mentoring team; develop your own community of practice; pursue your interests through informal learning; manage your time and energy. The Success Factor comes with online resources that feature a downloadable Passion Audit worksheet, Mentoring Team worksheet, and Goal Audit worksheet. The book offers scripts for approaching potential mentors and a list of uncommon places to find a mentor, such as webinars, airports, and social media.

The Success Factor features exclusive interviews with high achievers, including such people as Dr. Tony Fauci NIH/NIAID Institute Director; Dr Mike Brown, Nobel prize winner; Dr Peggy Whitson, Former NASA Chief Astronaut; Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop; and Steve Kerr, eight time NBA Champion and head coach of the Golden State Warriors.

Author Information

Ruth Gotian, based in New Rochelle, New York, is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, educator, and social scientist who researches the most successful people in order to learn about their mindsets and practices. She serves as the Chief Learning Officer and is Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, New York. She is the 2021 recipient of the Thinkers50 RADAR Award, making her the world’s #1 emerging management thinker. Her work regularly appears in Forbes, Psychology Today, Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, and Harvard Business Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Identifying Success

2 Objective versus Subjective

Measures of Success 3 What is success? 4 Success is a Moving Target

2 Four Pillars of Optimizing

Success

3 Tap into an Intrinsic

Motivation 4 Respond to Challenges with

Perseverance 5 Cultivate a Solid Foundation 6 Embrace Opportunities for

Continuous Learning and

Growth

3 Optimizing Your Success

4 Finding Your Passion 5 Finding a Mentor 6 Developing Your Mentoring

Team 7 Finding Your People 8 Embracing Opportunities to

Learn 9 Conclusion