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SPRINGBOARD

G. Richard Shell

Launching Your Personal Search for Success

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?

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.

G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of Business. An award-winning teacher and scholar, Shell is the author of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success (2013), the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (2006) and The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas (2007)(with Mario Moussa). He is also Director of the Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop and the Wharton Strategic Persuasion Workshop. He has taught thousands of students and executives, including everyone from Navy SEALs and Fortune 500 CEOs to FBI hostage negotiators, hospital nurses, and public school teachers.
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Published 2013-08-15 by Portfolio

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Published 2013-08-15 by Portfolio

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In addition to [Shell's] obvious expertise in the specialties of negotiation, persuasion, and interpersonal influence, his outstanding book on achieving success has exactly what this kind of examination needs, common sense and encouragement. Read more...

Fantastic coaching for the game of life! This book will show you how to achieve your personal mission and become the best person you can be.

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Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success is a rare find – like one of those special mountaineering guidebooks about a challenging ascent that captures the wisdom and experience of generations of climbers…

G. Richard Shell offers an approach to finding success that can lead to happiness, with others, in his new book, Springboard. Read more...

In this insightful book, Shell offers a new way to think of success…that can transform your own life and the lives of those around you.

Years of experience and wisdom have been distilled into this insightful book. It will motivate readers to examine and change their lives.

G. Richard Shell artfully engages both mind and heart, providing a road map for anyone in the midst of transition who seeks the true meaning of success at work and at home. In this book, you will be sitting down with a wise mentor who is dedicated to helping you create the life you never knew you always wanted. Shell shows you that the first step to success is the most important one: asking the right questions.

This book has print on pages, of course, but it is really a compass. The needle on that compass points directly to you, the reader. Find your positive, deep-down desires and follow them on your journey to success. It worked for Richard Shell. His insightful book can make it work for you.

Shell’s enlightening new book Springboard redefines the meaning of success.

Although there are hundreds of books about ‘how to succeed,’ Richard helps you think through what success actually is – and he is one of the most reliable guides I know to help you figure this out for yourself.

G. Richard Shell has written a book that is at once wise and practical, attentive to the scientific literature and full of gripping stories of individual lives.

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If you are embarking on a new life adventure, Shell’s inspiring guide will not only help you figure out what you were meant to do — this book will give you the tools to turn your calling into your Monday morning reality.

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Written with expert cadence, this book manages to be an 'easy read' without skimping on quality. Shell provides ample research findings, anecdotes, and the expert guidance he’s gleaned from his work in the field. Read more...

What a fabulous book! When grounded in wisdom, your journey towards success can be a journey of growth and fulfillment for yourself and others. Richard Shell shows you how to access the wisdom that is already inside your own heart and mind.

Shell's nine steps to success are simple enough to follow, and readers may come away believing that a more prosperous life is attainable with a few tweaks and a little soul searching. Read more...