基本信息出版社：Hyperion Books
页码：272 页
出版日期：2005年12月
ISBN：1401301932
条形码：9781401301934
装帧：精装
外文书名：成功之道

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The premise is simple: A persons ideal life, especially their career, can be carefully conceived and crafted. Based on Dr. Raos popular course Creativity and Personal Mastery at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Business, this book offers a series of readings, exercises, and lessons drawn from both spiritual and commercial situations that enable you to reconstruct and improve your professional world. This transformation will turn your life around and help you become exponentially more effective in your chosen career and thereby flourish in all aspects of your life. Whether you are questioning the value of money or the core values of your life, this book is a powerful tool that will help you to discover the purpose that can suffuse your life and bring stars to your eyes.
作者简介 Srikumar Rao, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. A contributing editor for Forbes, Financial World, and Success magazines, he has been featured and quoted in the national media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Fortune. A consultant to leading corporations nationwide, he holds a Ph.D. in marketing from Columbia University. He lives in Commack, New York.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Based on the course Creativity and Personal Mastery that Rao teaches at Columbia Business School and Long Island University, this Buddhism-inspired self-help book promises readers the tools to effect fundamental life changes and find inner peace. At its heart, this is a case of Eastern philosophy leading Western MBAs along the path to self-improvement and corporate enlightenment, with a kinder and more productive working world as the ultimate goal. Rao narrates with waves of parables ("When you have one eye so firmly fixed on the goal, you have but one eye left to find the way") and introspection exercises—all designed to help executives find "effervescent joy" and discover their "purpose in life." Rao's techniques require an open mind and a belief in a "benevolent Universe" and in the notion that the negative things that happen to people are more often a matter of errant mindset and misinterpretation than reality. Will any of this actually lead readers to a higher level of self-enlightenment and make them happier at work and in life? As Rao writes, regarding the possibility of a universe that looks out for the well-being of its denizens: "Maybe yes, maybe no. Who knows?" (Jan.)
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From AudioFile
The worlds we inhabit in our professional and personal lives are not given to us--we create them based on our past experiences and chosen habits of thought. Some of the author's insights seem obscure or clumsy at first. But by the middle, the program picks up momentum, and Rao's immense wisdom not only sinks in, but really begins to make the program a cohesive set of insights. Create the security and balance you deserve, he says, by fleshing out both the functional models and the results you desire. An excellent tool to help listeners monitor those blocks and distortions that can limit life's possibilities. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

New York Times
"It is a forum for self-exploration, meant to help future business leaders define their personal ethics and goals."