With humor and candor, the President and CEO of Pilot Pen Corporation of America shares the career and life lessons he's learned from eleven years in show business and more than forty years in the corporate world.
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This inspiring book provides readers with engaging stories, anecdotes and lessons covering the essentials of what they need to excel in their own careers. Among the lessons Shaw shares in PILOT YOUR LIFE:
• Create options when there appear to be none
• Stay open to opportunity, no matter how unlikely it appears
• Stand up for yourself, even when you think you don't have much leverage
• Innovation and inventiveness are the antidotes to "It will never work"
• Success is bred by a constant quest to improve
• Create options when there appear to be none
• Stay open to opportunity, no matter how unlikely it appears
• Stand up for yourself, even when you think you don't have much leverage
• Innovation and inventiveness are the antidotes to "It will never work"
• Success is bred by a constant quest to improve
The book includes a foreword by Shaw's long-time friend Larry King of CNN and testimonials from well-known figures such as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and best-selling author Harvey Mackay. PILOT YOUR LIFE offers readers a chart for navigating through the treacherous waters of the business world and their careers.
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"When you come from my neighborhood, success isn't a given. Yet ever since I was a kid, something inside of me has refused to buy 'It can't be done.' Some people are born with an attitude of achievement. Others can cultivate it."
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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It really happended just like the book says it did,
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This review is from: Pilot Your Life: How to Create the Career You Want (Paperback)
I have to admit that I am biased as I have known Ron Shaw my entire life but setting this aside this book contains some wonderful recipes for life and business success. Ron's entrepreneurial story of survival in building a mid sized US business offers far more practical insights and executable strategies than several recent books written by Fortune 10 business executives. Not that the later are not intersting, it is just hard to translate stories from a Company that never faced a capital crisis into reality for most of us in today's economy. Also you get a great sense of the importance of community in this book. Finally, this is also not a parochial story as the author was amongst the first executives to embrace Japan in a business setting.
I get the sense that the people who founded Google read the hardcover version in 2001-2002. Well worth the read for all of us.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the average "succeed in business",
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This review is from: Pilot Your Life: How to Create the Career You Want (Paperback)
Some of the jokes in the beginning of chapters are very funny. This is not a book for just one read through. Some chapters are all about how to start off in business, while others seem not applicable until in upper management. Although very interesting, much of the book was only applicable to those that either do not know how to start off their career, or how to become a successful manager.
If you are in sales, however, I strongly recommend this book. This book almost made me want to go into sales.
1.0 out of 5 stars
More about me than help in sales,
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This was a more about me book than a help in sales. Most you could not apply to how and why people buy something. Not worth the money.
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One evening when I was on the road, I was staying at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tournament owner, pen business, title sponsor, pen company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Haven, United States, Razor Point, Magna Doodle, New York, North America, Jack Paige, Bob Adler, Fanatical Customer Service, Father Donnelly, Pilot Corporation, Lender's Bagels, Irwin Helford, Rosemary Clooney, Silly Putty, Bic Butane, Bill Clune, Dean Martin, Office Depot, Palm Pilot, Rod Roberts, Schwinn Black Phantom, Yale University, Youth Round-Up, Akira Tsuneto New!
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One evening when I was on the road, I was staying at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tournament owner, pen business, title sponsor, pen company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Haven, United States, Razor Point, Magna Doodle, New York, North America, Jack Paige, Bob Adler, Fanatical Customer Service, Father Donnelly, Pilot Corporation, Lender's Bagels, Irwin Helford, Rosemary Clooney, Silly Putty, Bic Butane, Bill Clune, Dean Martin, Office Depot, Palm Pilot, Rod Roberts, Schwinn Black Phantom, Yale University, Youth Round-Up, Akira Tsuneto New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Jim Plunkett (Sports Mate Series) by Edited by Children's Press on page 126, and page 137
- First Impressions (Silhouette Language of Love #5) by Nora Roberts on page 46
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