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Winner
Takes All REVIEW: LIBRARY BOOKNOTES MAY 6, 1998 Everybody's talkin' millennium. Everybody also seems to know what we should do to prepare for the fin de siecle. What seems to be coming out of all this "prospecting" is one clear certainty: uncertainty. With all the "future shocks" of the past twenty years, the very weave of things seems tenuous at best. In Response to this, there has been a veritable explosion of advice on how to "hit the ground running" in the years to come, and how to ensure that you are doing so in the right direction. As with so much of this literature, the truly salient point is not that we need some super-specialized business techniques to plot out our futures. It's about the right attitude, how we view ourselves, our dreams, our values, our responsibilities, and our worth. Noelle Nelson's book
stands out from the crowd by virtue of its focus, clarity and
the author's genuine understanding of
dreams and goals and how they shape our lives. Focus is the key
word. Once you have a dream, no matter how humble it may seem,
focus it, she tells us. Secondly, we must believe in it unshakably.
This is where the winners are separated from the losers, and
this is where many of us "drop the ball." When we don't
believe enough in ourselves, our dreams disappear. Nelson takes
us from this point and lays out a path for us that ensures our
dreams don't perish there. She peppers the book with many examples
of peoples' stories that demonstrate how "winners" get
to be such. Their stories inspire by example. [ Buy This Book ] Return to Main Books and Tapes Page
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