Ballsy: 99 Ways to Grow a Bigger Pair and Score Extreme Business Success (Paperback)

by Karen Salmansohn (Author)
Key Phrases: Antidote Thoughts

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Product Description
Your success is only as large as your determination!

Bestselling author Karen Salmansohn offers unflinching advice and straightforward tactics to help you get the career you’ve always wanted. Visually stunning, often humorous, and extremely insightful, this book is the only one you’ll need to set yourself on course for extreme success.

• Mom was wrong. It’s okay to talk to strangers. (tip #4) • It doesn’t matter how good your beef tenderloin is. Don’t try to sell it to a vegan store. (tip #20) • Whenever possible, play with people who are better than you. (tip #39) • Don’t just create deadlines. Create ill-lines and funeral-lines. (tip #47) • True success is about making a life… not just a living. (tip #59)

Always to-the-point and brutally honest, BALLSY is the perfect companion for today’s business professional. Do you really have time for the usual motivational treacle? Salmansohn’s dynamic book gives you quick inspiration, real-world business advice, and will never waste your time.

"If you're not happy with what you're getting, maybe you need a whole new plan. You're holding one. Start now!"

—Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside

"Salmansohn is a powerhouse of a business woman, succeeding in a competitive industry by incorporating the many techniques she offers up in this ballsy business book. Her insights are right on and universally valuable for people in all careers, and in all phases of their career."

—Keith Krach, founder and former CEO of Ariba

"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to be more successful in business, or frankly, in life. There are many business books out there, but it is the unique style of Karen Salmansohn's book Ballsy that makes these tips actionable, memorable, and effective. I've ordered a copy for all of my sales staff... and my board of directors."

—Doug Fierro, president and CEO of WMI

About the Author
Karen Salmansohn is a career coach, speaker and the best-selling author of more than 25 books about career success, personal growth and taking life a little less seriously. Her most recent career books, Ballsy and Gut, offer the hard won strategies that have propelled Salmansohn to the top of her own career. Her advice, while smart and tough, is always tempered by her sense of humor and delivered in a succinct, visually inspiring way.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: How (March 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158180816X
• ISBN-13: 978-1581808162
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #298,235 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Missed Potential...Disappointed, October 5, 2006

By	Christien Louviere "Dynamic and Diverse" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wish I could give this 2.5 stars. I'd read a bit about the author and was intrigued by her style. This is the first book of her's I've read. I have no doubt that she is quite talented, but this book is only half finished. I read the whole thing in 45 minutes. Not because it was a page-turner, but because it was basically fluff with no ideas. She gave 'tips' and then offered no ideas or solutions. She just put a summary after each tip, but how hard is it to summarize a 1-2 line tip? I'm not quite sure that this is the fault of Ms. Salmansohn. I looked at other books by the same publisher. They were similar in that they were light information and heavy on distracting graphics.

I read the other reviews and may be in the minority as I don't think I'm the target audience. I bet Karen is a wonderful writer, but the book really left me aggarvated that I pad for it. I don't feel as though I received much from it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Selling this treacle for money is Ballsy, April 13, 2009

By	Q. Design "friend2dogs" (chicago, il USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What a heap of drivel! This stuff makes Jack Handy look like Socrates.

The entire book is just dime store pep-talk and empty platitudes wrapped in tortured decoration. Each page is nothing more than a line or two pulled from a fortune cookie set in some jaunty type font and surrounded by vintage clip art and broad swaths of earthy color. If you set the type in 10pt Helvetica and got rid of all the window dressing, the actual content could be printed on something that would fit in your wallet.

You know that ol saw Style over Substance? Well it was created to describe works like this one.

Here is a startling insight from the book.

... in this uber-competitive career market place, if you only give 100% you will only get an okay career. If you want a fantastic career you gotta give 150%"

Seriously, this is the stuff that fills out the pages of this ridiculous tome.

All I can say is that Ballsy is what the writer was when she pitched this book,and SUPREEMELY Ballsy when the publisher stuck a $14.99 price tag on it.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars salmansohn does it again!, April 25, 2006

By	Peter Greenfield (Florida) - See all my reviews

I love this new business book -- it's bold and to the point - with truly helpful techniques -- and it puts you in a psyched ballsy state of mind right after reading it! Thank you to the author -- who's book HOW TO BE HAPPY DAMMIT is a gift I keep giving to all the important people in my life. Now BALLSY will also be a gift I want to give!