Focus Your Energy: Hunting for Success in Business with Attention Deficit Disorder [Paperback]

Thom Hartmann (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671516892
• ISBN-13: 978-0671516895
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,154,747 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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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous for entrepreneurs, June 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Focus Your Energy: Hunting for Success in Business with Attention Deficit Disorder (Paperback)

Every entrepreneur I've ever known has been a person who could be described as having ADD. And this book, which revisits Hartmann's ground-breaking ADD/Hunter/Farmer theory, and then puts it in the context of business, is one of the best business books *for the entrepreneur* I've ever read. (If you work in an office, 9-5, and like it that way, it's probably not the right book for you. If you want to start your own business, though, this book is the key.)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute must have book for anybody with ADD, April 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Focus Your Energy: Hunting for Success in Business with Attention Deficit Disorder (Paperback)

This book really helps you to focus on what is important and teaches you how to deal with distractions in a positive manner. The techniques are genuinely masterful. If you want to succeed with ADD in the business world, than this is the ticket.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Awesome Title from Thom Hartmann, April 16, 2010

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This review is from: Focus Your Energy: Hunting for Success in Business with Attention Deficit Disorder (Paperback)

Even though this was published in 1994 it is still relevant and chock full of useful gems for those of us with ADD. He offers many strategies for setting up a work life congruent with ADD strengths and offers advice on how to navigate the pitfalls of ADD in the workplace, including when to bring in a Farmer. This book is especially helpful to those who are, or wish to be entrepreneurs.