Insights for the Journey: Navigating to Thrive, Enjoy, and Prosper in Senior Management [Hardcover]

John Lucht (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2001

This remarkably brief book delivers tons of truth about existing, surviving, moving up, achieving leadership, delivering results, reaping rewards ...ultimately finding self-perspective and satisfaction in the world of Senior Management. Only rarely in any decade does a book capture, and bring new insights to, an infinitely broad subject in just a few words. This one does, because it's derived from a wealth of first-hand observation. For over thirty years, John Lucht has been recruiting senior executives from CEO on down, first for six years at Heidrick and Struggles, America's second-largest search firm, and for the past 24 years in his own practice which, for the past ten years, has also included outplacement and executive coaching at the highest levels of management. For ten earlier years he, too, was an executive on the fast track ...acutely aware of the cultural and performance issues that determine progress, rewards, and - ultimately - personal satisfaction among executives.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Viceroy Press (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942785312
• ISBN-13: 978-0942785319
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #682,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Knocked My Socks Off!, October 19, 2002

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Barbara M. Chilson (Ossining, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insights for the Journey: Navigating to Thrive, Enjoy, and Prosper in Senior Management (Hardcover)

Note for John Lucht:

Good morning, John, and I must say that this first insight hit me like a ton of bricks! For most of my career, I have been identified as a high potential person, the ideal change agent, the first one to take a development assignment, the first one to start a new division, etc. While that very often has brought me success, tho at a high cost and high risk, when I have taken a fall, it was for exactly the reason you cited, and by that point, curiously lacking in the support of the very senior fellow who had spent months coaching me to stir the pot. In fact in those unsuccessful cases, the senior guy was asking me to do the things he had been unsuccessful in doing or had simply been afraid to do.

I so appreciate your insight as I continue to pursue my current job search targets.

With best regards, Barb Chilson in Ossining.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, November 24, 2001

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CJ Rhoads (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insights for the Journey: Navigating to Thrive, Enjoy, and Prosper in Senior Management (Hardcover)

Overall, I found the book fascinating. I could not put it down. It is small, and I finished quickly, but then I went back to read it again. So many of these lessons are easily missed in the day to day activity of our lives.

I just don't know how John takes the maelstrom of human activities and pulls out, succinctly and clearly, the most poignant lessons. In this book John has done it for life's lessons beyond just the recruiting aspect (which was the previous book he wrote, focusing in on the most important aspects of managing recruiters!).

Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. This is a must read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good things come in small packages!, November 12, 2001

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John R. Mcbride (Lake Oswego, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Insights for the Journey: Navigating to Thrive, Enjoy, and Prosper in Senior Management (Hardcover)

"Good things come in small packages." I don't know who first said that, but it certainly applies to this book. This is wonderful little essay that should be read by anyone managing people. It's messages are clear, unambiguous, and can be put into practice immediately. A few notions may be counter intuitive - especially if you've been hired as a `change agent' to fix a broken business. But most of what's contained in the book is `comfort food' for the soul. The book makes a terrific gift or `leave behind' if you deal with senior management. It's the kind of book you'll read more than once.