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Springboard Launching Your Personal Search for Success

Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success

By G Richard Shell

Challenges you to set aside ideas of success as defined by society, family, and the media. Drawing on decades of research, this book helps you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths.

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Book Information

Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 04/29/2014
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781591847007
ISBN-10: 1591847001
Language: Eng

What We're Saying

September 11, 2013

Success In 5 Easy Lessons

By G. Richard Shell

"As a senior faculty member at the Wharton School of Business, I am best known for my work in negotiation, persuasion, and interpersonal influence. [… ] Given what I do now, most people are surprised to learn that I did not start my my academic career until I was thirty-seven and spent most of my twenties unemployed, much of the time deeply uncertain about who I was and what I wanted to do. But I count those years as the most important of my life. It was during that intense period of living with failure that I gained my first insights into the true meaning of success." READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 23, 2013

Click on the links below to read more about our choices for the top books of 2013, as well as the books that made our category shortlists. We will be announcing the Best Business Book of 2013 at our (mostly) annual We Believe in Books party in NYC the second week of January. Stay tuned! READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 16, 2013

The entries were submitted, the books were read, the shortlists determined, and we are now ready to announce the category winners of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards! In the Personal Development category. . READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 12, 2013

Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. On Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

September 05, 2013

G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management and the Chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1986. He also led the School’s most recent innovation process to completely redesign its MBA program. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

August 21, 2013

We are giving away 20 copies of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell over on KnowledgeBlocks. Just enter for your chance to win. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

July 31, 2013

If you're like me, your summer reading list is infinite—wonderful-looking books in a towering protean stack which both promises blissful enrichment and threatens utter annihilation by way of procrastination and its associated guilt. And summer isn't even over yet. Don't get discouraged. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

April 29, 2014

“Given what I do now, most people are surprised to learn that I did not start my academic career until I was thirty-seven and spent most of my twenties unemployed, much of the time deeply uncertain about who I was and what I wanted to do. But I count those years as the most important of my life. It was during that intense period of living with failure that I gained my first insights into the meaning of success. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Wharton professor Richard Shell created the Success Course to help his world-class MBA students answer two questions that aren't as obvious as they seem: "What, for me, is success?" and "How will I achieve it?"


Based on that acclaimed course, Springboard shows how to assess the hidden influences of family, media, and culture on your beliefs about success. Then it helps you figure out your unique passions and capabilities, so you can focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life, and less on what you are "supposed" to want.

About the Author

G. Richard Shell is a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and creator of its popular Success Course. His previous books include Bargaining for Advantage and, with Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo. He lives near Philadelphia. Visit Learn More

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