Amazon.com: Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times (9781592400980): Ken Lindner: Books

Buy Used
Used - Good See details
$3.63 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times
 
 
Tell the Publisher!
I'd like to read this book on Kindle

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times [Hardcover]

Ken Lindner (Author)
2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


Available from these sellers.


Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Hardcover --  
Paperback, Bargain Price --  
Mass Market Paperback --  

Book Description

December 29, 2004
Do you aspire to…
-- Steer your life or career in the right direction
--Get that promotion or dream job
--Improve your relationships
--Lose weight
--Live a life that reflects what you value most in your heart-of-hearts

For two decades, Ken Lindner has built a reputation as one of broadcast journalism’s most successful talent agents and career counselors. He’s learned that even everyday decisions have the power to become crucial turning points in life, and that what separates those individuals who achieve their goals and realize their dreams from those who don’t is the process by which the achievers reach their decisions. Crunch Time gives you Ken’s eight foolproof Steps to making constructive and self- enhancing decisions and the specific Strategies to make it happen.

Crunch Time show readers that:

* You are the result of your decisions, and each and every decision is an opportunity to either raise or lower the quality of your life.
* The way you Frame your decisions to yourself can help you negate and override the strong emotions that often cloud your better judgment and lead you to make self-destructive choices.
* The appropriate use of discipline and delayed gratification are an integral part of helping you achieve your most precious goals and dreams.
* By making constructive and self-enhancing decisions on a daily basis, you significantly raise your feelings of self-esteem and self-worth, which motivates you to make self-enhancing decisions throughout your life.

Crunch Time is the essential motivational guide for any decision-making situation, providing powerful and highly-effective Strategies for achieving your goals by making the very most out of every opportunity.

With compelling and insightful case studies, Ken illustrates how to live a life focused on your true values and goals in order to achieve what you want in both your life and your career, so that you will inevitably be led to make your most positive, constructive, and self-enhancing decisions. Infused with Ken’s trademark enthusiasm and ability to inspire, this is the ultimate beacon for every defining moment, in life and in business. BACKCOVER: Advance Praise for Crunch Time

"Ken's professional counsel has helped me make the right choices during my own ‘crunch times.’ Now everyone can draw upon his simple, but effective strategies for smart decision-making."--Lester Holt, Network Anchor

“Great decisions can certainly change lives, they have for me. Crunch Time is loaded with Ken Lindner’s brilliant decision-making Strategies and insight, all of which have enabled me to truly live my dreams.”--Dayna Devon, Host of EXTRA

“If you’re frustrated with any part of your life, don't put this book down! Crunch Time is packed with invaluable decision-making tools that can improve the quality of your life immediately. Ken Lindner's book helped me personally and professionally from page one.” --Lu Parker, Miss USA, 1994 and Television Host, CBS San Antonio

“This is the bible for anyone who wants to aim for the stars, personally and professionally. Ken Lindner manages to encapsulate phenomenal life and career advice with a clear explanation of how to pull it off no matter what your field. Crunch Time is the definitive "How to Succeed" book of the new millennium.” --Liz Claman, Network Anchor

“As Ken Lindner’s very first client, I can personally attest to his genius in helping people make life-enhancing decisions. In Crunch Time, he compellingly shares his life Strategies so that you can immediately begin to change your life in the most beneficial ways.”--Ernie Anastos, Anchor

Crunch Time gives you a clear roadmap as to how to take positive and tangible ownership of your life through making constructive and emotionally intelligent big- picture decisions.”--Robin Meade, Network Anchor

“By reading Crunch Time, you can achieve your goals and feel good about who you are as you grow. It’s so rare to go to a bookstore these days to find something that can truly transform your life. This book can!”--Flavia Colgan, Network Commentator


Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Advance Praise for Crunch Time

"Ken's professional counsel has helped me make the right choices during my own ‘crunch times.’ Now everyone can draw upon his simple, but effective strategies for smart decision-making."--Lester Holt, Network Anchor

"Great decisions can certainly change lives, they have for me. Crunch Time is loaded with Ken Lindner’s brilliant decision-making Strategies and insight, all of which have enabled me to truly live my dreams."--Dayna Devon, Host of EXTRA

"If you’re frustrated with any part of your life, don't put this book down! Crunch Time is packed with invaluable decision-making tools that can improve the quality of your life immediately. Ken Lindner's book helped me personally and professionally from page one." --Lu Parker, Miss USA, 1994 and Television Host, CBS San Antonio

"This is the bible for anyone who wants to aim for the stars, personally and professionally. Ken Lindner manages to encapsulate phenomenal life and career advice with a clear explanation of how to pull it off no matter what your field. Crunch Time is the definitive "How to Succeed" book of the new millennium." --Liz Claman, Network Anchor

"As Ken Lindner’s very first client, I can personally attest to his genius in helping people make life-enhancing decisions. In Crunch Time, he compellingly shares his life Strategies so that you can immediately begin to change your life in the most beneficial ways."--Ernie Anastos, Anchor

"Crunch Time gives you a clear roadmap as to how to take positive and tangible ownership of your life through making constructive and emotionally intelligent big- picture decisions."--Robin Meade, Network Anchor

"By reading Crunch Time, you can achieve your goals and feel good about who you are as you grow. It’s so rare to go to a bookstore these days to find something that can truly transform your life. This book can!"--Flavia Colgan, Network Commentator

About the Author

Ken Lindner has represented hundreds of the country’s most prominent anchors and reporters, including Matt Lauer, Elizabeth Vargas, Lester Holt, and Paula Zahn. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, he worked as an attorney for the William Morris Agency before founding Ken Lindner & Associates.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Gotham (December 29, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592400981
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592400980
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,333,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ken Lindner is one of America's most respected and successful news and hosting talent representatives. He owns Ken Lindner & Associates, Inc., which he founded in 1998. Ken graduated from the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, Brooklyn Poly Prep, Harvard University (magna cum laude), and Cornell Law School. Seeing the light and talent in others and empowering them to achieve their most cherished goals are Ken's gift and life mission, respectively.

 

Customer Reviews

5 Reviews
5 star:    (0)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
2.2 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice try but falls short of expectations, January 9, 2006
By 
This review is from: Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times (Hardcover)
Lindner manages to mix together various of his life's lessons learned, his career as a media/entertainer rep, his tennis experience, his battle with weight and his parents' wisdom and lack-thereof into a somewhat difficult-to-read to the end self-help book. There is nothing new here in the self-help genre (not that there ever is) just a lot of repackaging and sprucing up with italicized terminology (Heart-of-Hearts) and self-help advice.

The advice is generally good (delay gratification, go with your heart, etc) and Lindner is a good story-teller. The book is most captivating when he is recounting epsiodes from his life that have affected him to this day (his mom's advocacy for his college recommendation in high school; his dad's challenging his mom on her extreme lateness habit). As somenone who is knee-deep in media entertainment representation, Lindner probably has a good novel in him about media personalities and behind the scenes shenanigans.

There are some glaring weakenesses. Roger Maris' difficulty handling the attention during his quest to break Babe Ruth's home run record is oversimplified as a matter of "not seeing the big picture". Also, on the one hand Linder appropriately gives us Kobe Bryant as an example of someone who made a bad decision during his so-called "Crunch Time", then at the end of the book give us Madonna as a role model of ends-over-means decision-making.

Lindner could have used better advice from his editorial support. He introduces key terminology at the beginning, the so-called Heart-of-hearts, for example, without defining it and giving examples (this comes near the end), and he provides other how-to's at the very end of the book as well.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Basic Advice, March 13, 2005
This review is from: Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times (Hardcover)
Unless you're really clueless in the area of social skills, or maybe if you're just really young and haven't lived long enough to learn skills us older folk take for granted, this book would be a waste of your time. I'm amazed intelligent people like Matt Lauer actually have a need for a strategist. For the rest of us, its unlikely you're going to read much of anything that you dont already know.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Hackneyed advice, February 28, 2005
This review is from: Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times (Hardcover)
First Lindner book I have read. How does a self-aggrandizing daddy's boy manage to get the puffy endorsements from celebs? Amazing, and this book should be an emabarassment to a smart guy like Matt Lauer, who is the star of the author's claim to fame. Boring, trite material which could be summarized if the whole book said only "carpe diem." Maybe he is smart -- he got my money and evidently from others who were taken in by "reviews".
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews



Only search this product's reviews



Inside This Book (learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heartfelt values, constructive decisions, anchor job, varsity tennis team, most cherished goals, paddle tennis court, valid feelings, enhancing decisions, host position, anchor position
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Crunch Time, Big Picture, William Morris, New York, Access Hollywood, Los Angeles, Entertainment Tonight, Student of Life, Kobe Bryant, Matt Lauer, Gardner Malloy, Mike Smith, Dayna Devon, East Coast, Good Morning America, Maccabiah Games, Bryant Gumbel, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Miami Beach, Michael Jordan, Poly Prep, Sammy Sosa
New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats
Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Search Inside This Book:

Citations (learn more)
This book cites 6 books:
See all 6 books this book cites


Books on Related Topics (learn more)
 
 

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums


Listmania!


Create a Listmania! list

So You'd Like to...


Create a guide


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject