Deliberate Success: Realize Your Vision with Purpose, Passion and Performance [Hardcover]

Eric Allenbaugh (Author), Denis Waitley (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2002

Compelling, practical, and inspirational, this book will provide you with "The 5 Success Strategies" for winning in business and in life, "The 3 Performance Principles" for sustaining long-term results, and hundreds of no-nonsense ideas for immediate application. This book masterfully presents proven success principles and powerful implementation tools that you can immediately apply in bringing out the best of yourself, your team, and your organization. From cover to cover, you will find ways to develop tangible tools that will catapult you to even higher levels of success in business and in life! You will take away from this book: inspirational stories, the sage wisdom of masters in the field who contributed "Deliberate Success Gems," hundreds of pragmatic ideas, and strategies you can use for a lifetime in getting from where you are to where you want to be. This book will both inspire and challenge you to be and do your best.

Editorial Reviews

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"DELIBERATE SUCCESS will challenge you to be your best while providing pragmatic tools that make a good leader great." -- Colleen Barrett, President & COO, Southwest Airlines

"This powerful book will position you for winning in business and in life through principles and tools that transcend time." -- Denis Waitley, Ph.D., Author of Psychology of Winning

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Career Press; 1st edition (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564146170
• ISBN-13: 978-1564146175
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loaded with focused advice, worth the read, August 17, 2002

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Roger E. Herman (Greensboro, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deliberate Success: Realize Your Vision with Purpose, Passion and Performance (Hardcover)

"Achieving success is not an accident; it results from a deliberate process of identifying a compelling purpose, passionately pursuing your vision, preparing for high level outcomes, and performing at your best." Thus we being our journey with a seasoned (two decades) executive coach, professional speaker, and consultant in peak performance. The author is a proven expert in his field-a specialty that has enduring value for individuals, teams, and organizations.

The book--full of advice and counsel that would cost you thousands in a personal consultation--is organized into five strategies. The strategies are Direction, Culture, Empowerment, Coaching, and Renewal. Each strategy is presented as a section of the book, with three or four chapters on each category. Two special features add value to this book: an abundance of relevant quotes throughout the book and cameo contributions from thirteen fairly well-known authors and executives. A bibliography and index round out the book.

Under Direction, Allenbaugh shows readers how to link purpose and passion with performance. Chapters focus on creating a compelling mission and vision, linking into your passion, and implementing your vision. The Culture section describes how to sustain a results-oriented, customer-focused climate-valuable for individuals as well as organizations. The three chapters illuminate various aspects of culture, including the importance of values. The Empowerment section focuses on releasing human potential. There are several insightful chapters on empowering people, honoring the differences among people, and hiring winners by using Attitude, Aptitude, and Alignment as filters. The coaching section addresses building others' success, effective expression and listening skills, and a focus on results. The last portion of the book explores the "3 Rs of Renewal: Release, Reaffirm, and Reinvent." Chapters on individual renewal and organizational renewal contribute useful perspectives.

Easy-to-read book for individuals, managers, business owners, consultants, and those charged with the responsibility (and opportunity) of coaching others to deliberate success. This is a good how-to book, enjoyable and enlightening as a read-through and worthwhile as a reference when you need a re-focus.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A common sense way to accomplish your goals!, June 10, 2002

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Ronald L. Oldham (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deliberate Success: Realize Your Vision with Purpose, Passion and Performance (Hardcover)

I have been a fan of Eric Allenbaugh for some time now and was pleased to see that he has put his ideas in print so that everyone can benefit from them. Dr. Allenbaugh's style is down-to-earth and common sense. He makes what so many people shy away from because they don't think they understand it, straightforward. The book is based upon his real life experience as a consultant and coach. If readers will apply Dr. Allenbaugh's advice on vision and mission and combine it with creating a culture of empowered associates, their organizations will reap long term dividends! If the reader does nothing else, the chapters on performance coaching should be taken to heart. The workplace will be so much the better for it! Deliberate Success should be required reading for all CEO's and executives!

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally one that challenges., March 31, 2003

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Peter M Hulzebosch (Lincoln City, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deliberate Success: Realize Your Vision with Purpose, Passion and Performance (Hardcover)

I am into the second go around of this book. What fascinates me the most is the fact that Eric doesn't provide the tyical text book solutions. This book makes you think about your situation and helps you in creating innovative solutions.