What you're really meant to do : a road map for reaching your unique potential

What you're really meant to do A road map for reaching your unique potential

Robert Steven Kaplan

eBook - 2013

How do you create your own definition of success - and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us - and ultimately, are left feeling dissatisfied. Each of us is unique and brings distinctive skills and qualities to any situation. So why is it that most of us fail to spend sufficient time learning to understand ourselves and creating our own definition of success? The truth is, it can seem so natural and so much easier to just do what everyone else is doing - for now - leaving it for later to develop our best selves and figure out our own unique path. Is there a roa...d map that will enable you to defy conventional wisdom, resist peer pressure, and carve out a path that fits your unique skills and passions? Robert Steven Kaplan, leadership expert and author of the highly successful book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, regularly advises executives and students on how to tackle these questions. In this indispensable new book, Kaplan shares a specific and actionable approach to defining your own success and reaching your potential. Drawing on his years of experience, Kaplan proposes an integrated plan for identifying and achieving your goals. He outlines specific steps and exercises to help you understand yourself more deeply, take control of your career, and build your capabilities in a way that fits your passions and aspirations. Are you doing what you're really meant to do? If you're ready to face this question, this book can help you change your life.

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Career development.
Vocational guidance.
Job satisfaction.
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Published
[United States] : Harvard Business Review Press 2013.
Language
English
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9781422189917
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Kaplan (Harvard Business School; author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, 2011) provides excellent advice and self-assessment guidance for anyone interested in professional growth and achievement of their "unique potential." The book is easy to digest, written in a conversational manner, and made more readable by the text's organization into smaller sections with descriptive headers. To provide context and perspective to the many valuable points made throughout the book, Kaplan gives many examples of real interactions and anecdotes with those he has coached over the years--from job seekers to employers and from recent graduates to seasoned professionals. The book also offers interactive components throughout; for example, in chapter 2 Kaplan asks the reader to create a "skills checklist" and offers detailed examples of what this list would look like. Additionally, after each chapter, suggested follow-up steps allow readers to continue to assess and identify their next course of action. Overall, Kaplan uses his corporate and academic expertise to provide excellent advice for readers at all stages of their careers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. C. J. Kohen Daytona State College

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Review by Library Journal Review

Kaplan (management practice, Harvard Business Sch.) draws upon both his personal experience and his work advising students and colleagues in order to help readers formulate definitions of success and achieve their goals. He describes a disciplined process of lifelong self-development that involves exploring intellectual challenges, creating strong interpersonal relationships, making a positive impact on the world, and solving personally meaningful problems. Case studies and exercises help readers focus on their unique issues. VERDICT A good starting place for new graduates or those stuck in unfulfilling careers. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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