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    Great Work Great Career: Interactive Edition
    Great Work Great Career: Interactive Edition
    Great Work Great Career: Interactive Edition
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    Great Work Great Career: Interactive Edition

    By Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer

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    Great Work, Great Career - NEW Interactive Edition

    As we live through successive economic earthquakes that shake the core of our society, it can be difficult to maintain one's footing. Still, Covey argues there is a positive side to these tumultuous times, provided one is willing to take a chance and go with it. Welcome this wild and demanding new world and embrace the opportunities it presents.

    Covey tells us, don't just settle for a job; you want a great job. Great Work, Great Career - NEW Interactive Edition can help you find that great job and beyond that, a whole career. You will learn how to:

    • Create your own career opportunities and make a real difference in a terrific job of your
    • Define your unique strengths and the exact niche in the market that you can fulfill
    • Build relationships with key support people
    • Create an outstanding resume
    • And more

    Stephen R. Covey is perhaps the most respected business thinker of our time, and his associate Jennifer Colosimo brings us this handbook for anyone who is seeking a job and a more fulfilling career. Their work is full of indispensable advice and tools.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango Media Inc
    Release dateJun 15, 2015
    ISBN9781633532175
    Great Work Great Career: Interactive Edition
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    Stephen R. Covey

    Recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, business leader, and author. His books have sold more than 40 million copies (print, digital, and audio) in more than fifty languages throughout the world and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the 20th Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the most trusted leadership company in the world.

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      I know many people who are out of work or are dissatisfied with their current jobs. I myself am not actively job hunting nor am I particularly dissatisfied with my job. However, this book can be read, enjoyed and applied by anyone who has an earnest desire to find that "great career" or to create a "great career" at his or her current job. For those job seekers, the end of the book does include some suggestions on crafting a resume, cover letter or even on giving presentations to prospective or current employers outlining your plans for success.If you have read 'The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People', you'll notice a lot of familiar language.In discussing the nature of our current economic times, the book talks about such concepts as the "Abundance vs Scarcity Mentality", "Circle of Influence vs Circule of Concern", "Emotional Bank Accounts" and changing our Paradigm to look at the workplace through the lens of the Knowledge Worker age rather than the Industrial Age. The book talks about (though I don't think it ever used the '7 habits' terms) "production vs production capability."And it spends a considerable amount of time talking about problem solving, identifying needs, turning needs into opportunities and creating your own personal Contribution Statement based on your own strengths, talents, passions and your moral compass or conscience.The book gives advice for taking that Contribution Statement and actually conducting a "Need-Opportunity" presentation rather than going to job interviews. It presents ideas and methods for helping yourself stand out from the crowd to a prospective employer or even to your current boss. There are suggestions for expanding your "Circle of Influence" to better meet your talents and passions. The authors also go into some depth about "Building Your Village"…a 21st century mindset around networking and working through people you know to achieve your goals. The book talks about creating a village through your friends and co-workers but also about about the importance of carving a space out for yourself on the Internet…diving into social networking such as LinkedIn or even Facebook….creating your own webspace by writing a blog about your passion/expertise…maybe even writing an e-book. The authors emphasize that your village should be based on "real" relationships rather than just a bunch of names who can "do something for you"…focus on building that Emotional Bank Account and then use your village to synergistically achieve your goals.Like many books in this vein, there's not a lot here that felt "revolutionary"…on the contrary, it all felt like "common sense" and a lot of it feels like those "aha" moments where you smile, nod and wonder "why didn't I think of this earlier". The writing style is simple and easy to understand. There are a bunch of inspirational stories and examples and there is plenty of great advice.So whether you're on the hunt for a job, trying to improve your current position, or self-employed and looking to solidify your own contribution, this book should have something to help you develop, focus on and come up with a plan to achieve your long-term career goals.****4 out of 5 stars

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    Great Work Great Career - Stephen R. Covey

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    Great Work Great Career iBookstore Special Interactive Edition by Stephen R. Covey (Author), Jennifer Colosimo (Author), Breck England (Editor) 1st Ed.

    ISBN: 978-1-63353-217-5

    Table of Contents

    Great Work, Great Career

    Part 1: What Will Be Your Contribution?

    Know Your Strengths

    Discover Your Cause

    Contribute Your Best

    PART 2: HOW WILL YOU MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION?

    Get the Job You Want

    Build Your Own Village

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Introduction:

    You might be saying to yourself, I don’t want to talk about a career, much less a greatcareer. Right now I just need a job. I need to eat!

    Well, if you’re looking, we’re going to show you how to get that great job now. That’s the first, short-term step.

    But the day will come when you’ll want to do more than just eat. And beyond that day will come another day when you look back at your life and take measure of your entire professional contribution to the world.

    This book is about today and tomorrow. It’s about getting a great job now and enjoying a great career for life.

    When we say a person has had a great career, what do we mean? That he or she made a lot of money? Moved spectacularly up the corporate ladder? Became famous or renowned in his or her profession? What about the familiar comment from every movie star on every talk show: I can’t believe I get paid for doing this! Are only a few people entitled to feel that way, but not the rest of us?

    And what about you? Are you looking forward to a great career? Would you describe your current career as great? When you get to the end of your productive life, will you be looking back on a mediocre career? a good career? a great career? And how will you know?

    Furthermore, just how do you create a great career for yourself?

    As coauthors of this book, we are fascinated by these provocative questions. We have been associated in our work for many years as avid students of what it takes to build a great life and career. And we bring two different sets of experiences to the issue, so occasionally, we will speak to you directly in our own voices. We’ll share with you our discoveries and provide tools and insights that will help you find answers for yourself. Whether you’re looking for a job or want to make the job you have more meaningful, this book is for you.

    Would you describe your current career as great?

    Great Work, Great Career

    Anyone Can Have a Great Career

    To begin with, anybody can have a great career. It doesn’t matter what your line of work is.

    It’s all in how you define great career. If you define it as something that brings you a lot of money and power, then you might or might not achieve that Alexander the Great level of greatness. Of course, a livable wage is important, but isn’t there more to a great career than just a paycheck?

    We invite you to think about the most effective, influential people you have ever known professionally. Focus on one face for a moment. It could be the face of a teacher, a co-worker, a friend, or a leader you have worked for. What contribution did that person make to your life? to the organization? to the world? And did it necessarily have much to do with wealth and power?

    A person with a great career makes a distinctive contribution and generates a strong feeling of loyalty and trust in others. Anyone, regardless of title or position or profession, can do these things.

    Now, how do you feel about that person? Do you feel a strong sense of loyalty and trust? Do others feel that way?

    We believe these are the two key hallmarks of a great career. A person with a great career makes a distinctive contribution and generates a strong feeling of loyalty and trust in others. Anyone, regardless of title or position or profession, can do these things.

    Your distinctive contribution is the what of your great career. It rises from within yourself, from your unique mix of talents and passions. It is what you alone can create, no matter your line of work.

    Loyalty and trust arise from the how of your great career. It is the fruit of your character and your conscience, of your highest and best impulses. It comes from doing what you know deep down you should do in the way you should do it.

    Let us illustrate with one example of a great career.

    Fiona Wood was a young English athlete who wanted a career in medicine. She followed the usual track through medical school, married, and while raising six children, completed a specialty in plastic surgery. After moving to Australia, she went to work in Perth at a clinic for the treatment of burn victims.

    The agony and scarring suffered by her patients moved her to wonder if there could be better ways to treat them. She knew that the longer a burn takes to heal, the worse the scarring. If only she could speed up the healing process from weeks to days, much of the pain and disfigurement might be avoided.

    Her experiments led her to invent spray-on skin, a method of applying new skin cells over burns. According to Dr. Wood, the technique starts healing in days instead of the weeks needed for conventional skin grafts to work.

    Then, on the night of October 12, 2002, her small hospital was flooded with victims of a terrorist bombing on Bali, many of them horrifically burned. Dr. Wood and her small team worked without rest for days and managed to save 25 of their 28 burn patients. Spray-on skin was part of the treatment. This accomplishment brought worldwide acclaim to Dr. Wood, and for the next four years in a row, she was voted in national polls Australia’s most trusted person.

    Dr. Fiona Wood clearly shows us what it means to have a great career. It’s not the acclaim or the fame, it’s the contribution. You have to push things forward; where there’s a need, there’s a problem, you have got to find a solution, she says. In the issue of scarring…we all accepted that if we treated people in a certain way when we operated on them, opened them up, zipped them back up and they had a scar, that was just the way it was. I thought, ‘Well, no, it doesn’t have to be that way.’

    A great career is all about solving great problems, meeting great challenges, and making great contributions.

    How could anyone say it more simply? It doesn’t have to be that way. A great career is all about solving great problems, meeting great challenges, and making great contributions.

    You’re probably saying to yourself, But I’m not a miracle-working surgeon. How can Ihave a great career? We emphasize that anyone can have a great career. Fame, fortune, unusual gifts—these are not the issue.

    From Stephen:

    A relative of mine has worked for IBM his entire professional life. He has thrived through every transformation of a dynamic company, working hard to stay relevant in an industry that revolutionizes itself every few years. He is very good at his work, which he takes seriously. His clients like him a lot. Even more important, he enjoys a great family life. He is not ambitious in the sense of needing the signs of external success, like constant promotions or public acclaim, but he’s making a difference.

    To me, that’s a great career. He gives the best he has to give, while earning the loyalty and trust of clients, co-workers, and his family.

    Many people argue about ambition. Is it a good or a bad thing? I believe it depends on the object of the ambition. If you’re ambitious only for the trappings of success and unwilling to pay an honest price for success, ambition can destroy your happiness over time. On the other hand, if you’re ambitious to make a real difference—a meaningful contribution—you will experience the deep satisfaction of a job well done and a life well lived. That is the kind of ambition I believe in.

    Furthermore, climbing the corporate ladder is not the only way to a successful career. There are meaningful alternatives to up or out. You define your own great career in terms of what is a win for you.

    From Jennifer:

    I have a French friend who began his career in the automotive industry programming robots to paint cars.

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