ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the Business World [Hardcover]

Thom Hartmann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

Discover a successful you! An estimated 20 million Americans have ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), many of whom are intelligent, creative, and intuitive - with exceptional leadership potential. This new book, ADHD Secrets of Success will help ADHDers understand and overcome the symptoms of their condition that may hold them back, and take advantage of the traits marking them for success. This is an updated version of Hartmann's 1994 book "Focus Your Energy: Hunting for success in business with ADD, " a revolutionary book that helped thousands of adults world-wide discover how to find success in their business ventures and personal world.Thom Hartmann shows ADHDers how to: Choose an appropriate profession and a rewarding work situation. Use practical techniques for overcoming forgetfulness, reaching goals, and countering procrastination. Harness ADHD symptoms to inspire new ways of problem solving.

Editorial Reviews

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"Every entrepreneur and businessperson in America must read this book." -- Wilson Harrell, former Publisher, Inc. Magazine

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This book may be seen as a self-help book for a specific group of people --ADHDers -- or it may be seen as a helpful guide for everyone who seek to better focus their energy and live a happy, more successful life.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Select Books (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590790170
• ISBN-13: 978-1590790175
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thom Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children's Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children. Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed and abused children, and has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and refugee centers in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, Russia, and the United States through the German-based Salem International program. Formerly rostered with the State of Vermont as a psychotherapist, founder of The Michigan Healing Arts Center, and licensed as an NLP Trainer by Richard Bandler (who wrote the foreword to one of Thom's books), he was the originator of the revolutionary "Hunter/Farmer Hypothesis" to understand the psychiatric condition known as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). A guest faculty member at Goddard College in Vermont, he also synthesized the "Younger/Older Culture model" for describing the underpinnings - and possible solutions - to the world's ecological and socio-political crises, suggesting that many of our problems are grounded in cultural "stories" which go back thousands of years. His most recent books are "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class," "The Edison Gene," "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," "We The People: A Call to Take Back America," and "What Would Jefferson Do?"

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but his COMPLETE book contains this book!, September 1, 2003

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GDH2 "Wood Loon" (Acton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the Business World (Hardcover)

Thom Hartmann is GREAT!

His Hunter/Farmer perspective is really useful.
His Creativity comparison opened my eyes.
And his specific ideas for creating your business like you were creating it with a franchise manual is truly inspired.

BUT
This entire book appears to be copied directly out of COMPLETE GUIDE TO ADHD (2000). I own 3 other books on ADD by Thom Hartman (COMPLETE..., A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, HEALING). I bought the book expecting two years worth of additional insight and maybe a more in-depth treatment of adult ADD and work. But I skimmed it and couldn't see anything that was different (I recently spent a lot of time analyzing and extracting personal & business ideas from COMPLETE... so I could easily recognized blocks of text and headings from memory.
CAVEAT - I did NOT go page-by-page, noting if there were any rephrasing, etc. But my conviction was strong enough I didn't want to waste an hour on this book (and I spent 20-30 hours on the COMPLETE... analysis). And I am starting a new business, so the specific subject was of very much interest to me...

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ADHD Illuminated, September 15, 2002

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Terrie (Little Chute, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the Business World (Hardcover)

This is a valuable book for many reasons. It is well written in easily understood terms while at the same time being inspirational and motivational and just plain great common sense. It spends time helping us to understand ADHD as not being an affliction but as simply a different mode of being. It makes an analogy between the Hunter/Gatherer societies of early mankind and equates the ADHD personality with the "hunter" type. Careful detail conveys to us the keys to success with ADHD in the workplace and as an entrepeneur. My favorite part of the book is the wonderful section on practical advice for building a life using the myriad positive aspects of ADHD to one's own advantage. This creative and positive author has given us a short, easily digested book that we can return to again and again, as needed, that delivers to us (or rather returns to us)an appreciation of the attributes for success that come naturally to the AHDH person.
Primarily geared toward the adult with ADHD who is out in the workplace or business world, I feel this book is ESSENTIAL reading for all parents of ADHD children because of its incredible message of hope and its thoroughly postive attitude. It provides tools that parents of ADHD children can use to advocate for their children with physicians and educators. It reveals a different perspective than we are so often fed, changing the outlook from one of disability and affliction to one of great potential and even giftedness. For the ADHD young adult trying to get through the high school and college years, this book is indespensible. I think most success comes through the conscientious use of the unique gifts and talents with which each of us is born. This book restores and affirms the gifts of the ADHD personality and places them in perspective. Along with the intelligent advice for knowing and understanding oneself as a person with ADHD this book illuminates the built-in and unique possibilities that are often dismissed and overlooked. Don't miss it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ADHD Secrets of Success, October 15, 2002

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Gerard Montigny Jr. (Ottawa Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the Business World (Hardcover)

Thom Hartmann's latest effort "ADHD Secrets of Success" is a very pragmatic guide to leading a successful life with ADHD. Although this book describes itself as being geared towards the business world and entrepreneurs I would argue that the tips and strategies found within it can be applied to almost any situation. ADHD the Secrets of Success is based on Thom's previous work and builds on his Hunter/Farmer Theory.

Whether you're trying to start your own business or working for somebody else this book will be of immense value. It is filled with clearly outlined step-by-step tips and strategies for almost any situation one might encounter. This book is a definite must read for every ADHD adult.

The only criticism I have is that the book doesn’t contain an index which is something that I consider to be must in any book for ADDers.