Book description
A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure
A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failureSince its publication in 2011, What's Stopping You? has offered readers a hard look at the quality of their careers and personal lives. For those who'd give themselves a solid "C+", this brutally honest guide to taking stock also offers the keys to self-improvement. By dismantling the fear inhibiting all achievement—fear of failure—author Robert Kelsey offers a set of seven steps designed to help readers map out their actions, and attain what once seemed elusive milestones.
Written for the frustrated underachiever or anyone who feels like one, this unique book addresses can the real obstacles hindering both professional and personal growth.
Includes a new chapter with tactics for overcoming a fear of failure
Explores methods for dealing with different types of people in a host of situations, such as getting a new job, pitching for new work, making presentations, or communicating clearly in an argument
With a Foreword by one of Britain's most successful businessman, Luke Johnson, this unique handbook to overcoming the most basic of fears is a must for anyone who would like to upgrade the quality of their life.
Table of contents
- Cover
- ENDORSEMENTS
- Title page
- Copyright page
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- FOREWORD BY LUKE JOHNSON
- INTRODUCTION
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PART ONE: What is Stopping You?
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1 FEAR
- Blind to office politics
- Emotions and their role in survival
- Impaired mental capacity
- Experiments in emotional manipulation
- Task perseverance, task avoidance
- Mastery or ego orientation
- Self-help books aimed at High-FFs
- Dream fulfilment is a false promise
- Avoidance behaviours
- “Attribution theory” and the “locus of control”
- 2 EXTERNAL RESPONSES
- 3 FAILURE AS A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
- 4 PRODUCING BETTER RESPONSES
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1 FEAR
- PART TWO: Goals
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PART THREE: Execution
- 9 STRATEGY AND TACTICS
- 10 JUDGEMENT AND IDEAS
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11 MANAGING THE PROCESS
- Anyone can adopt efficient practices
- Covey’s four activity boxes
- Rethinking the notion of time
- Create a timetable
- Proactively managing interruptions
- Clearing roadblocks
- “Sharpening the saw”
- “To do” lists and “checklists”
- Deal with the worst thing first
- Prioritization and efficiency
- Endeavour is the key
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PART FOUR: People
- 12 SELF-ESTEEM
- 13 DEALING WITH THE BOSS
- 14 PROGRESS AS AN EMPLOYEE
- 15 NETWORKING AND INTERVIEWS
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16 LEADERSHIP
- Leadership suits the High-FF
- A new approach to leadership
- The crucial ability: empathy
- The paradox of success
- One minute management
- Make others feel important
- Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- The hiring gambit
- Spotting curious people
- It won’t always work
- Inspiring leadership
- Motivating a team
- Loyalty runs down the hierarchy, not up
- Using High-FF traits to our advantage
- PART FIVE: Me Inc.
- CONCLUSION – THE POINT OF RECOVERY
- SEVEN STEPS TO NAVIGATING FEAR OF FAILURE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABOUT ROBERT KELSEY
- Index
Product information
- Title: What's Stopping You: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Capstone
- ISBN: 9780857083074
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