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Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea: A Fable--The Seven Keys to Finding Meaning, Passion and Balance in Your Life and Work

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea: A Fable--The Seven Keys to Finding Meaning, Passion and Balance in Your Life and WorkAuthor: Don Jones
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,041,107

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.7

ISBN: 0470831987
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780470831984
ASIN: 0470831987

Publication Date: August 15, 2002
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
For everyone struggling to find meaning in their work and life, and to balance the two, comes this entertaining, powerful, and inspiring fable. Don Jones weaves the compelling tale of Scott, a manager struggling with the increasingly chaotic demands of work and life.

Scott has lost his sense of passion, purpose and meaning, and has settled into a pattern of endless deadlines, late nights, to-do lists and mounting pressure. Not only is his work team underperforming, he is missing out on a relationship with his young son, Jim. It takes a late-night encounter with a mysterious janitor for Scott to come to grips with the fundamental personal and professional challenges we all face iin an increasingly uncertain world.

Walk Softly is about the soft skills that make the hard difference. Against the backdrop of Scott's story, it offers clear guidelines for creating powerful and productive work relationships and teams, and for discovering what is real in your life before you lose the very thing you are searching for. More than a business fable, it provides seven profound lessons that leaders, managers, and employees can apply immediately to improve results and relationships in business and in life.


Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars Review of "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea"   October 26, 2002
Ruth Maxwell (Seattle, WA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I think this is an excellent book for anyone who is working. As a designer of programs for managers and executives I keep track of the current market and read or scan most of the books published, and there are some good ones. This book is a fictional story that carries a truly big idea. Imagine if you could have it all--a way to succeed at work without giving up your life. Jones' book provides seven profound lessons you can apply immediately to improve the relationships you have not only at work but in your private life as well. This is a book for real people with real problems. As the story unfolds, you are able to analyze the problems and are guided into discovering realistic answers. Those answers can help managers make choices that will serve them not only in their business settings but in their personal lives as well.


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