The Executive Mystic: Psychic Power Tools for Success [Hardcover]

Barrie Dolnick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 17, 1998

You're about to roll out a major new product. Or present a hot idea before a large group that includes your boss, his boss and her boss. Or meet with the new CEO of a competing company about your dream job.

You're smart. You're successful. You're prepared. You're also wishing there was something you could do to stack the deck in your favor.

There is.

The first completely accessible and practical guide to getting ahead in business using intuition and other alternative techniques, The Executive Mystic shows how the power of astrological predictions, tarot-card readings, colors, herbs and stones can provide the highly coveted edge you need to succeed in today's hypercompetitive marketplace.

Looking to win new business? Enhance creativity? Present yourself more confidently? In this provocative new book, Barrie Dolnick, a highly profiled consultant to corporations and individuals in finance, banking, marketing, law and film, provides simple yet effective exercises to help identify your natural psychic abilities, along with occasion-specific tips, techniques and tools for success in nearly every business situation.

For anyone looking to get ahead in business from senior-level execs to temps, middle managers to freelancers The Executive Mystic provides the psychic scoop on how (and when) to:

prepare for a difficult meeting or a hard sellattract opportunity and increase profitabilityinitiate new projects and close dealsscore a new job or promotioncreate a more productive work environmentassemble a effective staff or teamnegotiate more skillfullyprotect yourself from office politicsdeflect negativity, maximize quality and get resultsWith its easy-to-follow instructions for using astrology, graphology and other executive oracles, The Executive Mystic elevates personal empowerment to a psychic plateau.

Editorial Reviews

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Having a bad day at the office? Keep a cube of onyx or a basket of pine cones on your desk, or imagine the color purple to "clear out" your "third eye." So says Dolnick, a consultant whose firm is also called the Executive Mystic. Dolnick is the author of Simple Spells for Love: Ancient Practices for Emotional Fulfillment (1995) and Simple Spells for Success: Ancient Practices for Creating Abundance and Prosperity (1996). She advises clients on how to use intuition and psychic skills to succeed in business deals and advance careers. Included among her repertory of "psychic power tools" are amulets, spells, tarot, astrology, crystals, dream interpretation, and graphology. She explains how to handle psychic power surges, prescribes a psychic dress code, and provides an inventory of the "nontraditional office supplies" one will need to carry out her suggestions. Part of Dolnick's counsel works because it is based on positive thinking and building confidence; the rest will have to be taken with a piece of jade . . . or a grain of salt. David Rouse

Review

"Extemely well-written and easy-to-read, this book identifies and interprets the psychic tools necessary to succeed in the corporate worldfrom how to develop and heed intuition, to how to structure effective work teams. A gift to those who recognize that today, goals must be attained by means other than the usual nuts and bolts." -- Karen M. Shackman, Founder and President, Shackman Associates International

"After following the advice in The Executive Mystic, I received the biggest job offer of my career. This book provides information that is actionable and gets results. It's not hocus pocus - it really works!" -- Ruth Ayres, Marketing Director, N.W.Ayer & Partners

"Barrie Dolnick's The Executive Mystic is a fascinating and easy-to-apply addition to the traditional 'tools' we use to achieve success." -- Adrienne Vittadini

"The Executive Mystic is ushering in the Information Age with a full artillery of psychic skills. Anyone can learn these common-sense tools and put them to successful use." -- Z. Budapest, author of Goddess in the Office

"The Executive Mystic really does provide an edge in business . . . especially on Wall Street. The real-world examples of deflecting negative energy are particularly useful, as is the chapter on conquering the "dark side" of psychic power." -- Peter Wade, Vice President and Senior Analyst, Lehman Brothers

"This is truly `out of the box thinking' for the business world. Barrie Dolnick's book is fascinating reading, turning the mystical into the accessible. It will make the executive suite a much more interesting place to work!" -- Kirsten Lagatree, author of Feng Shui for the Office

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: HarperBusiness; 1st edition (February 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887309038
• ISBN-13: 978-0887309038
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, enlightening and encouraging., June 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Executive Mystic: Psychic Power Tools for Success (Hardcover)

This is a terrific book. I find that I keep it in my briefcase as a primer. I have applied the tools and they have worked like a charm; no pun intended. Really an excellent tool for applying psychic energies into the workplace.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Business Book For The New Age Reader, June 11, 2002

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Kevin Gourley (Lehigh Acres, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Executive Mystic: Psychic Power Tools for Success (Hardcover)

This is a good book for the "New Age" reader. If you are new to mysticism, read this book with an OPEN mind. For those of you that are familiar with mysticism and psychic ability, I think this will be an enjoyable book to read. Although the author considers this a 'business' book, this book focuses mainly on psychic ability and how to put it to work for you in the business environment. I find many of Barrie Dolnick's suggestions useful and have come to realize that more people in business may be practicing psychic power tools than you would think.

7 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unintentional hilarity, May 22, 1998

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Matthew Budman - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Executive Mystic: Psychic Power Tools for Success (Hardcover)

First of all, don't be fooled: This book has nothing whatsoever to do with the much-ballyhooed search for "corporate soul." For a few pages, New York consultant Barrie Dolnick's advice seems very much in line with that of other self-help authors who urge you to be more assertive, dress sharp, and think positive. Sound advice. But she quickly veers off into the realm of the ridiculous; "The Executive Mystic" -- bizarrely, from one of America's leading business publishers -- is practically a survey course of paranormal nuttiness, all aimed at helping corporate ladder-climbers use their "psychic power" to plan more effective meetings, make better hiring decisions, and build more productive teams. Dolnick assures us that the unseen world has much to offer the aspiring junior executive: "There are modern mystics among us," she writes, citing the "keen psychic power" of Bill Gates and Bill Clinton.

Throughout the book, Dolnick cheerily insists that her aims are serious: "this *is* a business book," she writes, "and I'm not going to demand that you meditate." But you'd be better off meditating -- nearly everything else that she recommends borders on the insane. In her catalog of the absurd, Dolnick uses every faddish pseudoscience from graphology to witchcraft to feng shui to astrology, laced with random smatterings of American Indian and eastern philosophies. There's advice here on how to choose the perfect crystals and how to create a "psychic mirror" to ward off curses that people might put on you. There's pure superstition: "I try to avoid doing business when I see a horseshoe hung for bad luck (gap side down)." There are pages and pages of advice on which fabrics and colors to wear for different psychic purposes (avoid polyester and orange), and somehow it all has something to do with your seven "power centers," which get clogged and have to be "cleared" by rubbing them with sea salt.

There are warnings that bad people get what's coming to them: "note Michael Milken's battle with prostate cancer."! And she tells the scary story of a "highly competitive female broadcasting executive" with "a reputation for having no heart" whose child was born with a heart condition. "Coincidence?" Dolnick writes. "Maybe, but not likely." With disarming informality, Dolnick explains how to build a "negativity deflector" ("Wear red or silk undershirts for protection"); how to "conjure" a parking space (send a "clear psychic message"); and how to make an audience "calm, relaxed, and reasonable" (sprinkle some lavender around a room). She advises that you stay away from "dolls, pins, and chicken bones." One priceless passage discusses "our psychic heritage," which is apparently influenced by not only our ancestors but by our past lives -- "if you choose to believe in reincarnation." Get that? If you don't choose to believe, then it's not true.

No book like this would be complete without a few look-ahead stock tips, so there's a section on "executive oracles" -- tarot cards, a favorite book, the "I Ching," playing cards. "Can an oracle be wrong?" she asks. "Yes. Not often, but yes." Those sound like betting odds. And you can trust Dolnick: "One of my talents is in astrology and tarot reading," she writes. "I can recall seeing a layoff in one client's future, and then helping to prevent it." Then there *wasn't* a layoff, right? Some talent.

It's almost unimaginable that someone could be smart and capable enough to reach the executive ranks and then fall for this superstitious hooey. There'll be some, though, and they'll be easy enough to detect: They're the ones trying to be unobtrusive while rubbing sea salt on their foreheads, brandishing smoldering "smudge sticks" made of sage, and muttering incantations while carefully placing crystals about the office. And their red silk undershirts will be peeking out.