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Developing the Character of Success : Achieving in Hard Times.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mburani, Esther.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Success in business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (124 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Developing the Character of Success
- Place of Publication:
- London : Conrad Press, The, 2021.
- Summary:
- As someone in business, what is your most important asset? If your personality, your character, did not make it to the top of your list, it ought to have done._x000D_In this cogent, powerful, thoroughly argued book, Esther Mburani argues that the way you perceive and respond to situations, people and opportunities in business, the totality of that, is your business character. And that is fundamentally your brand. This book has one goal: coaching you into using your character to excel._x000D_The flexibility of principles and concepts in this book makes them applicable and effective in a broad spectrum, including self-identity, personal branding or re-branding, education, faith, career, relationships, parenting, health, business, entrepreneurship, management, and leadership. If you want to overcome challenges in your life and reach the top, this book will fast-track you.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter one
- Becoming
- The four pillars of becoming: Calling, Conviction, Commitment, and Concentration
- You must negotiate with life
- Humility is a critical ally to becoming
- Shyness, a liability to becoming
- Shyness as a mild emotional/behavioural disability
- Overcoming shyness
- Chapter two
- The 'you factor' in thriving beyond hard times
- Every crisis comes with hidden opportunities
- You need to discover your position of advantage in a crisis
- It is not big steps that count, but small ones you take in the right direction
- Your background has no power to hold you back
- No situation is too bad to jump from
- Hope, the one thing that you should never surrender
- Be aware of self-pity, the dangerous emotion that works against you
- Search for solutions from within you
- The danger of perceiving other people as a solution to your problems
- You have the ability not only to survive but to thrive
- Take time to build your success
- Your mind
- The effect of your mental wellbeing on the capacity to achieve
- The impact of forgiveness on your success
- Encourage yourself as often as possible
- Refuse to carry other people's fears
- Invest in hope
- The price of success
- The currency you use to buy success
- Know your point of strength
- Appreciate the chain of success
- Understanding the value of a zero
- Even giants need small people around them
- Chapter three
- Pressure, an invaluable ally in achieving success
- The Pressure Pyramid Theory of Success (PPTS)
- Pressure from your environment
- Pressure from other people
- Pressure from self
- The pressure synergy
- Chapter four
- Determine the person you want to be
- Know your value
- Self-packaging
- Be intentional in connecting with God
- Allow God to take control
- Chapter five.
- The personal tree of success model
- The seed and the cracking process
- The embryo of success
- Cracking and education processes
- Cracking and career
- Cracking in the marriage relationship
- The usefulness of cracking in parenting
- Cracking and personal goals
- Cracking and attaining good health
- Nurturing your personal tree of success
- Pillar one: taproot (life)
- Pillar two: the stem (your brain and the mind)
- Pillar three: the branches (talent, character, skill)
- Pillar four: the fruits
- Chapter six
- The power of rejection
- Tapping into the positive power of rejection
- Chapter seven
- The disabling power of trying
- The crippling power of 'trying' on your career
- Changing you versus changing the job
- You determine how you live your life
- Chapter eight
- Overcoming crisis
- Preparing for crisis
- Antidotes to crisis
- Antidote 1. Develop the faith that defies your crisis
- Antidote 2: live for a calling that is bigger than the crisis you face.
- Antidote 3: Make the right decisions at the appropriate time
- Antidote 4: Accept reality and move forward
- Antidote 5: Set goals that will keep you focused
- Chapter nine
- The Potter's house experience
- Resilience
- Shielded by the Potter's hands
- Endnotes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781839783791
- 1839783796
- OCLC:
- 1272999871
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