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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (Paperback)
by Jerry Porras , Stewart Emery , Mark Thompson
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Author: Jerry Porras , Stewart Emery , Mark Thompson
Publisher: Plume
Pub. in: August, 2007
ISBN: 0452288703
Pages: 304
Measurements: 8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01559
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0452288706
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"Built to Last" came out a dozen years ago and had a big impact on the way people in business talked about what it was they were doing. When you boil all its concepts down, it was about making active choices. Don't be limited by the existing structure. Don't fall for the trap of not being able to do what you need to do because you think you have to do something else. Make sure that you know what your core foundation is and preserve that while you are fostering growth with Big Hairy Audacious Goals and trying lots of things, and making sure that your companies purposes and values are aligned.
This book takes those same principles, and a few others, and recasts them into three overlapping circles of meaning, thought, and action. Where those three overlap is the place where the title of book, "Success Built to Last", lies. Rather than researching companies as in the first book, Porras, Emery, and Thompson interviewed 200 "successful" people. Some famous, some rich, some not famous, some not rich. They were looking for common factors in what made their lives feel successful to them.
Not surprisingly, it boils down to being active about your choices. Don't play by rules made by others, don't enslave yourself to goals you think others want you to achieve, and don't measure your life by another's yardstick. Down that road is misery and lots and lots of psychotherapy (with or without drugs). This book is full of good advice, good anecdotes, and helpful sayings about how you go about setting up your own life and your own success.
I would also recommend "Small Giants" by Bo Burlingham for more stories about people who found success and meaning in successful companies without following the "normal" path to growth, riches, and misery.
This is a good book and I hope it sells a ton. But that is probably a safe bet. Recommended.
(From quoting Craig Matteson, USA)
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Managers, executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and MBAs.
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JERRY PORRAS coauthored (with Jim Collins) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, which has sold over one million copies. He is Stanford Graduate School of Business Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, and lectures worldwide.
STEWART EMERY, considered one of the fathers of the Human Potential Movement, served as the first CEO of EST, cofounded Actualizations, and is the bestselling author of Actualizations: You Don’t Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself and The Owner’s Manual for Life. As a consultant, he asked questions that led MasterCard to its legendary “Priceless” campaign.
MARK THOMPSON is an executive coach, advisor to senior management teams, award-winning audio book producer, and former executive producer of Schwab.com. Forbes Magazine listed him as one of America’s top venture investors with the “Midas” touch.
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From publisher
The phenomenal follow-up to the bestselling Built to Last
Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your career and your life. That’s what Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson-leading thinkers in organizational development and self- improvement have done in Success Built to Last. Two hundred remarkable human beings from around the world are included, notably:
- Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon.com
- Warren Buffett
- Bill Clinton
- Frances Hesselbein, former CEO, Girl Scouts of America
- Maya Angelou
- Bill Gates
Each shares how he or she harvested victories, learned from failures, and found the courage to be true to their passions. By following a set of simple principles culled from these inspiring interviews, readers can transform their business and personal lives-and discover the true meaning of success.
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Foreword
Although success can easily be defined as the achieve-ment of goals, there’s a difference between temporary and lasting success. I don’t think you achieve lasting success unless you add another ingredient to the mixture, and that is to serve a cause greater than yourself. That’s what lasting success is all about.
I can’t tell you the number of people I have met who have been very successful in the pursuit of wealth, but late in the day began to sense that they didn’t really succeed. And yet, I have known people from all degrees of financial wealth who have dedicated themselves to causes greater than themselves and their own self-interests who have led a very satisfying life.
In my book, Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (Random House, 2005), we wrote stories about different kinds of qualities that make up a person’s character, based on the lives of people that you’ve probably never heard of-such as Sister Antonio, who resides in a jail in Tijuana taking care of people-to people we all know, such as Mark Twain.
In Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters, you will find practical wisdom drawn from the stories of hundreds of the world’s most remarkable and enduringly successful people who the authors actually interviewed. This is a book that will make a difference.
Senator John McCain
Preface
From Built to Last to Success Built to Last
The Mandela Effect
It was close to midnight at the World Economic Forum when we sat down to wait for the last meeting of the day. The freezing rain had turned to a blizzard, but inside it felt like noon in the Sahara as the heating system gushed to overcompensate. Mark Thompson was nodding off in his chair when Nelson Mandela suddenly appeared around the corner, extending a sweaty hand and a tired smile. Thompson shivered as Mandela leaned on his shoulder and eased onto the leather couch.
In the years before Mandela, an activist lawyer, had been sent to a death camp, he was rarely without zealous overconfidence about his mission to end apartheid. South Africa had suffered violence and unrest that seemed irreconcilable. Although Mandela initially advocated a peaceful solution, he eventually took up arms when the path of peace appeared to be a dead end. In 1964, he was convicted of conspiracy and sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Most of his years as an inmate were on Robben Island, off Cape Town, where the South African government sent the opposition to break its morale. During his many years of hard labor, the government pressed him repeatedly to compromise his beliefs in exchange for early freedom. He refused.
After 27 years in captivity, in 1990, at the age of 71, Mandela was released. He had every reason to have become the most dangerous man on his continent, but instead he accelerated the peaceful reinvention of his nation.
How could he have overcome his hatred to lead a non-violent revolution, seeking reconciliation instead of revenge? There he sat, exhausted, but radiant; continuing his quest to heal his homeland. The adulation of Mandela's fans has grown or evaporated, depending on whom you ask. Nevertheless, he took his own unique path-a journey that matters so much to him that he has stayed the course year after year, often despite the social and political consequences, not because of them. When he could be lounging in retirement, the Nobel Laureate and ex-President was instead recruiting people to his cause-as he had been doing not just for a month or a year, but for a lifetime, with an intensity that had not faded despite his decades of suffering in a South African jail.
Your three co-authors, separately and now together, have always been passionately curious about what makes enduringly successful people and extraordinary organizations tick. We have long shared a common question: What inspires long-term achievers to make the kind of choice Mandela did-to struggle and grow despite all odds-to find new meaning and hang onto it not just for the moment or for himself, but to create success that lasts? Although history supports Mandela's noble intentions, the fact that he didn't start out as a saint, with neither perfect grace, nor humility, before his long walk to freedom, makes his journey even more useful and inspiring to the rest of us. That's the Mandela Effect-when you can create enduring success not because you are perfect or lucky but because you have the courage to do what matters to you.
From Built to Last to Success Built to Last
Mandela's transformation is a courageous example of creating a life built to last. He achieved not just any success, but enduring success that lasts because it matters. In the introduction for the paperback edition of the business classic, Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras reported "a significant number of people had found key concepts useful in their personal and family lives as they approached the fundamental human issues of self-identity and self-renewal. Who am I? What do I stand for? What is my purpose? How do I maintain my sense of self in this chaotic, unpredictable world? How do I infuse meaning into my life and work? How do I remain renewed, engaged, and stimulated?"1
Healthy, sustainable societies require the creation of healthy, sustainable organizations, and great organizations and societies can only be built by human beings who can grow and create meaningful success. If you believe that-and we do-then talking to people who had remarkable lives and lasting impact seemed a natural thing to do. As inner- city educator Marva Collins (no relation to Jim) told us, when you create a life that matters-a life you feel worthy of living-then "the world would be a darker place without you."
Healthy, sustainable societies require the creation of healthy, sustainable organizations, and great organizations and societies can only be built by human beings who can grow and create meaningful success.
And so began the journey of our collaboration on Success Built to Last.
Conversations with Enduringly Successful People
This book is based on interviews with over 200 people all over the world who have made a difference-large or small-in their field, profession, or community, but who have lived a life that they believe mattered. In these conversations, we rediscovered a principle that is starting to emerge in books about organizational performance and leadership, but rarely seems fully developed: Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals. It is here, at a very personal level, where thought and feeling inform each other, that creativity begins, and where the potential for enduring organizations emerges. We found ourselves on a quest to find insights -probing to uncover the principles and practices of individuals whose impact on the world endures.
These people are not confined to the categories of entrepreneur, revolutionary, or positive deviant. Many are reluctant to think of themselves as leaders or role models even today. Most did not start out by pursuing success as conventionally defined by their culture. Some will probably never have much money; others are rich, even very rich, but very few started out wealthy. They come from many backgrounds, some horrific and others privileged.
In terms of personality, they're all over the map-some are naturally loud and assertive, while others are barely audible until you ask them about what matters to them. A few have so-called charisma, but most do not; and many remain introverts in the midst of success. At some point in their lives, all of them found themselves on a collision course with a kind of need that generated a relentless, passionate conviction to change the way things are for the long run, often despite how society might judge them.
We struggled with how to refer to these enduring high achievers. Labels such as "visionary leader," in this context, seemed unnecessarily lofty; creating a separation that would provide the rest of us with reasons not to reach inside ourselves to retrieve our greater possibilities. Let's be clear, however, that all of these people are providing leadership in one way or another. Ultimately, we chose the terms "Enduringly Successful People" and "Builders," the latter a description based in part on the "clock-builder" concept from the original Built to Last book. By way of metaphor, Collins and Porras made a distinction between the ability to tell the time in the moment and the ability to build a clock that could tell the time beyond the lifetime of the builder. They observed that leaders who created a vision and culture that endured were "clock-builders" whose organizations stood the test of time, outlasted them as individuals, and ultimately outperformed those organizations run by men and women who functioned merely as "time tellers" who lead in the traditional manner hoping to succeed with a hot idea.
Builders are people whose beginnings may be inauspicious but who eventually become defined by their creativity. At some point in their lives, Builders feel compelled to create something new or better that will endure throughout their lifetime and flourish well beyond. Builders often see themselves simply as people trying to make a difference doing something that they believe deserves to be done with or without them, and they recruit the team-build the organization-needed to get it done. Great organizations can be a dividend of this p... |
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Jack Canfield(MSL quoted), USA
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This book presents a path to the kind of lasting success that transcends fear and endows healthy self-esteem. |
Sir Richard Branson(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-13 00:00>
[An] extraordinary book that finally reveals a meaningful ‘secret formula’ for success based on the lives of remarkable people. |
Steve Forbes(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-13 00:00>
You can make a difference if you put your passions to work in a way that builds a better life for you, your business, and your community. Success Built to Last shows you how. |
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