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Success Strategies in the Workplace

In this Chapter

In this chapter we look at ADD success traits on the job, by examining the success factors of ADD author Thom Hartmann and the research conducted by Paul Gerber on highly successful adults with learning disabilities.

What You Need to Become an “ADD Success Story”

Paul Gerber, a social scientist, has studied highly successful adults with learning disabilities to see what they held in common.1 Although, learning disabilities and ADD are not synonymous, you can learn a great deal about what you may need in your own professional life by studying Dr. Gerber’s findings. He discovered common internal traits as well as shared circumstances, which seemed to support the extraordinary success of these ...

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