Flight Paths to Success

Flight Paths to Success
Author: Rhonda Walthall
Publisher: SAE International
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146860256X

Flight Paths to Success profiles the personal journeys of 33 women who have been, and continue to be, successful in aviation, space, and academia. Each woman was asked to select one question of several questions in five categories: personal career insight, work-life balance, mentorship/sponsorship, avoiding a career stall, and powering through challenging situations. Each woman shared her unique experiences about work-life integration, resilience, career changes, relocation, continuing education, and career advancement. While reading their stories, we saw that there were many flight paths to success and each woman navigated her own way by charting her own course and committing to it. Their stories were published as they wrote them-in their own words.

Paths to Success

Paths to Success
Author: Charles C. Harrington
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674038347

Who would have thought that Joycelyn Elders, born into a family that chopped cotton and trapped raccoons to survive, would grow up to be Surgeon General of the United States? Or that Clarence Thomas, brought up by his barely literate grandfather, would someday be a Justice of the Supreme Court? Certainly not statisticians, who tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions: those who, against all odds, have made the American myth of rags-to-riches a reality. For more than ten years Charles Harrington and Susan Boardman explored the life histories of successful Americans forty to fifty-five years old--those from poor homes, whose parents had not completed high school, and those from the middle class. Comparing the routes to success of these two groups--the one by various courses of their own construction, the other by a well-laid path--the authors are able to show where their efforts and qualities diverge, and where they coincide. Joycelyn Elders and Clarence Thomas are examples of the pathmakers of this work. While Paths to Success reveals certain consistencies between these pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites. These differences, fully described here, illuminate the ways in which opportunities, serendipities, and impediments intersect with personal resources, strategies, and choices to produce success where we least expect it.

Six Paths to Leadership

Six Paths to Leadership
Author: Mark A. Clark
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030690172

The paths that leaders walk significantly influence their success, offering differential opportunities and challenges. While conventional wisdom suggests that leadership styles and approaches may be equally effective across all situations, more recent research demonstrates the importance of employing strategies more specifically aligned with the context. This book offers critical insights and strategies, currently missing from the repertoire of leaders and their supporters, for managing across six distinct paths into leadership positions: promoted, hired, elected, appointed, founded, and family legacy. It illustrates lessons drawn from within and across paths, presented through themes, quotes, and stories drawn from interviews with over 60 successful leaders (executives, politicians, entrepreneurs, and more). While it is evident that these paths differ, those who study, hire, mentor, and coach leaders rarely consider the distinctions, nor suggest what may be learned across the paths. The emerging leaders, HR professionals, researchers, and coaches among the book’s readers will learn not only from those who have walked one particular path, but also from the experiences of those trekking in other directions. Most leaders will cross from one path to another over the course of their career. Some executives interviewed for the book worked their way up the ladder in one company, only to be recruited to fill a C-suite position in another company. Others were appointed to high-level government positions after stints as elected officials. The authors identify major distinctions when moving across the six paths. By reading this book, leaders and those who support them will develop greater self-awareness about each path so they can better leverage and manage their new challenges and opportunities from the first day in their new leadership position.

Thousand Paths to Success

Thousand Paths to Success
Author: Robert Allen
Publisher: Spruce
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-01-27
Genre: Quotations, English
ISBN: 9781840727302

We all want success. Our whole society is built on the idea. In former times, mere survival was enough of a challenge for the majority of people but now we expect much more. People are engaged in a quest to obtain success both for themselves and their families. But what is success? For many it is all about wealth, possessions, status and power. They believe that these are the things that make life worth living and they can never be truly happy without them. This book was not written for such people. This sort of success is shallow and pointless. It offers a mirage of happiness but delivers only misery and dissatisfaction. True success lies in our ability to find a rich, meaningful and fulfiling life. The successful people in this world have been those who were more interested in helping others and who showed by example that we can all be successful if we share whatever happiness we are fortunate enough to enjoy.

Good Work If You Can Get It

Good Work If You Can Get It
Author: Jason Brennan
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 142143797X

What does it really take to get a job in academia? Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most are destined for something else. The hard truth is that half will quit or fail to get their degree, and most graduates will never find a full-time academic job. In Good Work If You Can Get It, Jason Brennan combines personal experience with the latest higher education research to help you understand what graduate school and the academy are really like. This candid, pull-no-punches book answers questions big and small, including • Should I go to graduate school—and what will I do once I get there? • How much does a PhD cost—and should I pay for one? • What does it take to succeed in graduate school? • What kinds of jobs are there after grad school—and who gets them? • What happens to the people who never get full-time professorships? • What does it take to be productive, to publish continually at a high level? • What does it take to teach many classes at once? • How does "publish or perish" work? • How much do professors get paid? • What do search committees look for, and what turns them off? • How do I know which journals and book publishers matter? • How do I balance work and life? This realistic, data-driven look at university teaching and research will help make your graduate and postgraduate experience a success. Good Work If You Can Get It is the guidebook that anyone considering graduate school, already in grad school, starting as a new professor, or advising graduate students needs. Read it, and you will come away ready to hit the ground running.

The Common Path to Uncommon Success

The Common Path to Uncommon Success
Author: John Lee Dumas
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400221102

It’s time to achieve your financial dreams with a 17-step roadmap to guide your journey to financial, location, and lifestyle freedom. Get rid of fear and doubts and say hello to your version of uncommon success! Based on thousands of interviews from John Lee Dumas’ highly acclaimed podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, this revolutionary step-by-step roadmap provides a proven path for entrepreneurs like you to achieve the financial freedom and lifestyle fulfillment you are capable of. Let The Common Path to Uncommon Success show you how. The Common Path to Uncommon Success will: Reveal the critical steps successful entrepreneurs take to achieve uncommon success. Dispel the doubts and fear you’re currently facing while providing a clear path to financial freedom and fulfillment. Ensure you avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up countless entrepreneurs. Provide a “Well of Knowledge” section for you to tap into anytime you're in need of inspiration or motivation! JLD’s 17-step guide will help you accomplish your #1 goal in life by showing you how to properly focus on your vision of success until it becomes your reality. Hard work and persistence are only two of the ingredients. This book is the third.

The Seven Paths to Success

The Seven Paths to Success
Author: Rachel Bandara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692466162

Many Paths To Success Success can be defined in any number of ways. Some people measure success in terms of how much money or how many things they can accumulate over a lifetime. Others have a less materialistic interpretation of the word and equate the completion of any task or meeting of any goal to mean success. Still others believe success is simply being able to achieve happiness in their life. In our journey through life we all encounter difficult situations that can become obstacles to success. Overcoming obstacles is a key to success. Successful people rarely do it alone. To paraphrase an old, but still relevant truth, "behind every successful man or woman is another individual or group of individuals." It may be your spouse, business partner, doctor, or good friend who is there when you need them the most. A motivational speaker can make you think in an entirely different way that will steer you in the right direction to achieve your dreams. Whether you are trying to build stronger relationships or improve your health, there is someone who will help you achieve your goal. To be sure, if you want to succeed in business, having people you can trust and count on to be on your side will help guide you forward. History teaches us that the most successful people do not do it alone. It is one thing to make it to the top and an entirely different thing to stay there. Success can be fleeting but it can also be something that will stay with you throughout your life. In a team sport like football, the quarterback may get all the glory for winning the Super Bowl but credit for his success has to be shared with his team and coaches. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots is a superstar, but without protection from his offensive line along with the guidance and feedback form his coach, he would struggle to complete a pass. Staying at the top, whether it is in sports, business, or anything else, may be more difficult than getting there. Sustaining the success you have achieved is tough to do alone. Surrounding yourself with experts, who have certain skills that you may not possess, is crucial in almost any business. The Seven Paths of Success contains powerful and fascinating conversations with passionate, dedicated and driven individuals who have played such an influential role in the success of so many others. Featuring Conversations with: Rachel Bandara - A Fresh Start in Life May Be the Best Thing to Happen to YouRenee "The Bare Boss" Gambino - Stop Negotiating and Threaten MediocrityMike Gillette - Achieve Peak PerformancesRenee Jones - Abolish Comfort Triggers and Maintain Weight LossAna Rosenberg - Helping the Helpers Transform Their BusinessesNicole "RapWithNic" Welch - Arousal, Tension and Movement: The Formula for Real Communication in Your BusinessDavid C. Williams - Coaching High Stakes Decision Makers As you read their insightful stories and learn from their experiences remember, just one small tip could be just the spark that turns your life around and walks you down the path to success you are seeking."

America Now

America Now
Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2015-03-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319021778

America Now makes it easy for you to get brief, accessible, and thought-provoking essays into your classroom, with trustworthy, reliable pedagogy and an expert reader's knowledge of what works in the classroom. As series editor for Best American Essays, Robert Atwan constantly scours a wide range of periodicals, bringing to America Now an unrivaled focus on the best writing on today. Instructors tell us that their students want to respond to the essays in the book, and they praise the high-quality reading and writing instruction, critical thinking and reading questions, and model student essays that help them do so.

Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth

Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth
Author: William J. Poorvu
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2008-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 013270336X

“This well-organized book shows what a typical life in real estate is like so that newcomers can decide whether the field is right for them. It also offers advice on how to grow real estate investments for people who are already in the industry. Poorvu includes a variety of real world stories about people and their career experiences to make for an interesting read with a practical edge.” –Publishers Weekly “This new book by Bill Poorvu trumps any real estate book you’ve ever read.” –James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer There are plenty of “get rich quick in real estate” books. This is not one of them. Your guide, William Poorvu, is a lifelong real estate investor and consultant, and former head of the real estate program at Harvard Business School. Drawing on his personal experience–and hundreds of interviews with many of the most successful real estate investors and entrepreneurs–Poorvu illuminates every stage of your “life” in real estate: creating wealth, growing it, and managing it successfully. He reveals the milestones, pitfalls, and rewards associated with real estate investing, offering powerful insight into the challenges and opportunities you’ll face as you start out...scale up...ride the industry’s cyclical waves and then leverage, share, or pass along the wealth you’ve created. This book contains dozens of real life personal stories, hands-on checklists, and questions to guide your decisions...and it delivers unparalleled insight into how the real estate industry really works: • Be strategic: choose your best route into the business Define your successful real estate career, and learn how to make it a reality •Build your foundation: your first job, your first deal Spot a great opportunity to add value, and jump on it • Scale up: build and sustain your success Hire a great team, manage them successfully, and find the capital you need to grow • Survive the downturns: be flexible and nimble Recognize new realities, adapt to them, and uncover the opportunities they create • Take stock: make the most of your success Balance your business, wealth, and family

Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735211299

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.