Springboard, G. Richard Shell
Springboard, G. Richard Shell
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Springboard
Launching Your Personal Search for Success

Author: G. Richard Shell

Narrator: G. Richard Shell

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/13/2013


Synopsis

Everyone knows that you are supposed to “follow your dream.” But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is?

You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions:

What, for me, is success?

How will I achieve it?

You will begin by assessing your current beliefs about success, including the hidden influences of family, media, and culture. These are where the pressures to live “someone else’s life” come from. Once you gain perspective on these outside forces, you will be ready to look inside at your unique combination of passions and capabilities. The goal: to focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life and less on what you are “supposed” to want.

Drawing on his decades of research, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers.
Throughout, he shares inspiring examples of people who found what they were meant to do by embracing their own true measure of success.

About G. Richard Shell

An internationally recognized expert in law, dispute resolution, and negotiations, G. Richard Shell is the author of several books: the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, a work that has been published in more than fourteen languages, and Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will, a work on competitive strategy and law.

Professor Shell is the academic director of the Executive Negotiation Workshop and Strategic Persuasion: The Art and Science of Selling Ideas in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a professor of legal studies and business ethics. He teaches in a variety of open-enrollment and customized programs. A partial list of his consulting clients includes the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, Merck & Co., Citibank, Bank of America, and several of the largest labor unions in the United States.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elle on January 03, 2022

Though I will admit to generally being skeptical of the self-help book industry, Springboard is a solid self-help book with some interesting exercises. I read this as a required book for a summer funding program, but genuinely enjoyed it immensely. I particularly enjoyed the exercise in Defining Suc......more

Goodreads review by Jono on September 17, 2013

The whole genre of career success literature and trendy business books usually leaves me rushing back to fiction, but I found Springboard to be a very thoughtful, common sense guide to defining success, assessing your unique skills, and getting on a path to finding meaningful work. Perhaps because t......more

Goodreads review by Ying Ying on February 12, 2020

Reading this book by Prof. Shell made me feel as if I were back in his classroom, this time learning about personal success. Prof. Shell always offers great stories and invites us to think about important and life-defining topics like nobody else can. In this book, he invites us to define what our o......more

Goodreads review by Soundview on February 06, 2014

Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell was chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the Top 30 Business Books of 2014. THE SOUNDVIEW REVIEW: There are far too many business books in today’s market that encourage (or even order) you to abandon your cur......more

Goodreads review by Bill on October 25, 2013

Shell's 'Springboard' successfully gives you a foundation to understand what is important to you and how to move toward being more happy. Please don't shy away from it in fear that it might be just a trite self-help book. Far from it. In fact, if anything, it leans in the opposite direction -- challe......more