The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best: Richard Koch

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A new 21st century individualism is overtaking “corporation-as-king” capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at a time. In THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL, Richard Koch reveals the secret of their success: they discovered what they do better than anyone else and rode it for all its worth.

In this inspiring sequel to his classic bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, Koch shows how to maximize success in your career and life by using the proven principle that 80 percent of changes in the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and ideas. He’ll show how to use your own powerful “20 percent spike” – your most creative ideas and unique skills – to measure the amount of value you bring to your employer, clients or customers. For most people, there is a huge disparity between their intrinsic value and the compensation they receive for their efforts. THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL shows how to narrow that gap.

Drawing from his own success as an entrepreneur, as well as from the stories of scores of companies and individuals who have flourished as a result of an 80/20 mind-set, Koch offers a step-by-step method to remodeling a career or existing business, or creating a new one – one that most benefits you. He provides valuable insights on finding 80/20 partners, hiring 80/20 employees, and running an 80/20 business.

By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, you’ll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because you’ll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future.

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A new 21st century individualism is overtaking ?corporation-as-king? capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at a time. In THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL, Richard Koch reveals the secret of their success: they discovered what they do better than anyone else and rode it for all its worth.
In this inspiring sequel to his classic bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, Koch shows how to maximize success in your career and life by using the proven principle that 80 percent of changes in the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and ideas. He?ll show how to use your own powerful ?20 percent spike? ? your most creative ideas and unique skills ? to measure the amount of value you bring to your employer, clients or customers. For most people, there is a huge disparity between their intrinsic value and the compensation they receive for their efforts. THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL shows how to narrow that gap.
Drawing from his own success as an entrepreneur, as well as from the stories of scores of companies and individuals who have flourished as a result of an 80/20 mind-set, Koch offers a step-by-step method to remodeling a career or existing business, or creating a new one ? one that most benefits you. He provides valuable insights on finding 80/20 partners, hiring 80/20 employees, and running an 80/20 business.
By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, you?ll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because you?ll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future.

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How Much Is Enough? Harness the Power of Your Money Story–And Change Your Life: Pamela York Klainer

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Even before September 11, more and more of us were expressing dissatisfaction with the widening imbalance between our personal and professional lives–and our numbers have doubtlessly increased since that day. Pamela York Klainer, an executive coach and workplace consultant, had been watching this feeling grow among her clients, and How Much Is Enough? offers her well-considered strategy for bringing career and home life into better harmony. Klainer’s underlying premise is that we all have a “money story,” a lifelong ingrained perspective on capital and the possessions it can buy that establishes our directions in life and work, and eventually whether we are happy with the results. Utilizing tools like a “money autobiography,” she offers a method to help us understand the way we truly feel about money and the amount of it we think we need to meet our own definition of success. More importantly, she then shows how knowledge of where such thinking originates, and how it evolves, can be used for adjusting actions to reach goals that prove more satisfying. “How much is enough” may indeed be the underlying question we all need to answer for ourselves before a desirable equilibrium can be attained. –Howard Rothman

The successful consultant dubbed the “money shrink” by Money Magazine shares her strategies for conquering the last taboo: understanding and taking charge of our relationship to money.

Whether we are CEOs of our own start-ups, senior executives with stock-option packages, or keepers of modest 401(k) accounts who watch the NASDAQ with terror, our relationship to money and work defines our daily lives. Yet, most of us don’t really know what we want from work or how the time we devote to making money relates to the “rest” of our lives.

How Much Is Enough? urges us to step back and ask how money and success point us toward a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of self-worth. In this path-breaking book, executive coach and consultant Dr. Pamela York Klainer shows us how to improve our often-troubled relationship to money.

Supported by real-life anecdotes and time-tested insights, Klainer uses “money” as a window into the core values and behavior of successful people–and of those working hard to be successful. Based on her experience as a consultant to thousands of leaders in fast-growing companies, Klainer offers a practical framework for defining–and linking–money, the drive for success, and our longing for happiness. Millions of us–from the boardroom to the home office–are shaken by turbulent markets and feel unable to shake the pressure to do more, better, faster. Dr. Klainer gives us the tools we need to channel the power of money in creative ways, so that we can map out the road to a more meaningful and happy life.

Harness the power of your own life’s “money story” as Dr. Pamela York Klainer shows you how to answer the four basic money questions:

· Do you see money as for “me” or for “we”?

If it’s for “me,” how do you create a sense of meaning about your life? If it’s for “we,” how can you find time outside of work?

· How do you manage the power of money?

Can you use your money to create meaningful difference in the world without riding roughshod over other people’s desires and aspirations?

· Do you see yourself as a provider or an organizer?

How do you negotiate ownership of these roles, at home and in the workplace?

· How much is enough?

What amount of money will allow you to stop driving so hard? If you don’t like to focus on money, why not? What are you missing?

Money choices are about exercising personal power. By changing our money story, we can–in new and powerful ways–change who are about to become.

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The Money Club: Is Your Financial Future Safe? What Every Woman Should Know: Diane Terman Felenstein, Marilyn Crockett, Dale Burg

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Meredith Kahn”Harper’s Bazaar”Straightforward chapters give you all the info you need to keep your cash flow heading in the right direction.

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Publishers WeeklyThe book covers seemingly everything one needs to know to become secure financially.

Meredith KahnHarper’s BazaarStraightforward chapters give you all the info you need to keep your cash flow heading in the right direction.

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Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast: Carmel Mcconnell

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“[The Momentum books] radiate contagious energy with their inventive design, personality-packed style, and cheeky touches.” — Fast Company, December, 2002

The only way to do it…is to do it.

Change Activist shows you how to make a difference in the world while achieving personal fulfillment in your career. The author argues that profit and principles are mutually achievable, and guides you toward become the driving force behind bigger, better, and more value-based results.

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Power Sabbatical: The Break That Makes a Difference: Robert Levine

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New technologies and workplace pressures have extended the working day, reduced time off, and often disconnected workers from their communities. Vacations are often too short or simply not taken and stress-reduction techniques and medications may address the symptoms of the problem but rarely the causes. The solution for many of these problems is a planned, focused, extended break from everyday life and work—a sabbatical. A comprehensive framework is provided, detailing how to harness the power of the sabbatical in a way that can enhance a career and earnings prospects along with personal, physical, and spiritual health. Tips are included for how to plan and prepare for a sabbatical, with or without employer sponsorship.

About the Author
Robert Levine has more than 17 years experience as a consultant for high-tech and financial-services companies. He is pursuing a law degree at the University of London and is planning his own sabbatical. He lives in Massapequa Park, New York.

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Risk in Perspective: Insight and Humor in the Age of Risk Management: Kimberly M. Thompson

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Laugh and learn with this unique book that offers a glimpse at the lighter side of life’s risks. Starting with a must-read consumer’s guide to taking charge of health information and filled with health and risk-related quotes and cartoons, this book belongs in every physician’s waiting room. Risk in Perspective helps consumers evaluate health and scientific information and consider how the information can be used to improve their lives.