(100个成功事业的第一步) Nobodies to Somebodies:How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start
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作者： Peter Han著
出 版 社： 上海蓝泉外文图书有限公司
出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 233印刷时间： 2005/12/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781591840862包装： 精装内容简介
Brad Anderson was a scruffy stereo salesman in his twenties who took a job at a failing electronics store just so he could work and listen to music at the same time. That chain is now Best Buy, and Anderson is its CEO.
Ann Richards got a teaching degree and assumed that after teaching for a few years she'd settle down as a homemaker. Instead, she jumped into local pol-itics and eventually became the Governor of Texas,and a national icon.
Tom Clancy worked as an insurance agent into his forties. He sold his first novel for a pittance to a little-known publisher. Today he's one of the world's most popular authors.
THESE AND MANY OTHER SUCCESSFUL people were once just ordinary twentysomethings. They had talents, but little or no experience. They had career interests, but few clear goals. They wanted to find work that would be both financially rewarding and personally fulfilling, but they didn't know how.And they had to overcome all the uncertainty and obstacles of being Nobodies.
Entrepreneur and writer Peter Han became fascinated by how others found their true callings and made the journey from Nobodies to Somebodies. In search of the wisdom that comes from life experience,he interviewed 100 highly accomplished leaders in a wide range of fields about how they got their starts.
Han's interviewees ranged from actors (John Lithgow) to CEOs (Craig Sturken) to Senators (Bill Bradley) to scientists (Peter Agre) to nonprofit heads (Wendy Kopp). They shared with him the paths they traveled, the hard choices they made, and the les-sons they learned along the way.
Nobodies to Somebodies is filled with stories of seized opportunity and realized potential; of surprising choices and staggering successes. From these 100 extremely diverse career paths, Han has drawn common themes and lessons, which can help anyone who's eager to start (or restart) a deeply satisfying career.
If you're a young (or not so young) Nobody, don't get discouraged. Learn from the people who have already made the journey you're just beginning.
作者简介
Peter Han, a thirty-year-old Harvard graduate, has written for The New York Times, The Houston Post, and the Associated Press. He currently works for Microsoft.
目录
Introduction
WHAT THE 100 LEADERS LEARNED WHILE STARTING THEIR CAREERS
BASICS: FINDING ONE'S CALLING
Lesson 1. Ride the Rocket: Five Paths to Enlightenment
Lesson 2. Run Toward Yourself, Not Away
Lesson 3. Pay the Rent First, Conquer the World Later
Lesson 4. Become the Big Fish by Mastering the Small Pond
KEYS: CHASING THE DREAM
Lesson 5. Learn When to Stay and When to Go
Lesson 6. Learn How to Stay and How to Go
Lesson 7. Don't Let Old Plans Get in the Way of New Opportunities--or Luck
Lesson 8. Work Hard, Work Smart, and Work Some More
Lesson 9. Be Productively Competitive
Lesson 10. Find the Social Animal Within
END GAME: USING A LITTLE MAGIC
Lesson 11. Keep Learning, No Matter Who the Teacher Is
Lesson 12. Go Crazy in the Office, but Stay Sane at Home
Lesson 13. If There's Magic in Success, It Lies in Willpower and Passion
Lesson 14. Things Don't Have to End Where They Begin
Closing Thoughts
Appendix A. Capsule Biographies of the 100 Leaders
Appendix B. Basic Question Guide for Interviews with Leaders
Appendix C. Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
