Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week [Hardcover]

Dave Lakhani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 2006

Praise for The Power of an Hour

"The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly-for you, for your team, and for your children."
-Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals

"If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast."
-David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing

"Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!"
-Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire

"The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!"
-Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer

"The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure-you'll be surprised how much better you feel!"
-David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. Sometimes we succeed, but often we fail because we simply fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?

The Power of an Hour gives you the blueprint for making changes one at a time that add up to a big difference. Most books that promise to help you improve yourself and your business are too formulaic and too focused on one particular aspect of life to really work. But this book is different. It's a holistic guide to the practical, everyday actions you can use to supercharge your personal and business development.

The demands of business, especially for executives and entrepreneurs, leave little time for thinking about yourself. But great businesses are built on great leaders, and changing your business for the better often means changing yourself first. The Power of an Hour identifies specific core areas of personal, professional, and business improvement, then guides you through a step-by-step process that keeps you focused so you can reinvent your life and business. The results are fast and predictable.

Designed by a successful entrepreneur to work specifically within the busy executive's or business owner's schedule, this insightful, enlightening guide is broken down into two groups of lessons—those hours dedicated to personal issues and those dedicated to business issues. All these one-hour blocks go hand in hand to create a better business and a better you. But you can also use them as individual lessons on topics you need to know more about. You'll learn about managing your time, improving your personal relationships for the good of yourself and your business, dealing with customers, managing employees, and creating and following a vision of your future success.

The world's top athletes all have coaches who help them focus on specific areas of their game to create consistent and ongoing improvement. This book helps you focus on those issues that have the greatest impact on your success in life and business. In just a few short months, you'll develop the traits that make great business leaders and great businesses. Written to improve your life without disrupting it, The Power of an Hour isn't a personal development book for everyone—it's just for you.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Power of an Hour

"The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly—for you, for your team, and for your children."
—Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals

"If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast."
—David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing

"Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!"
—Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire

"The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!"
—Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer

"The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure—you'll be surprised how much better you feel!"
—David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471780936
• ISBN-13: 978-0471780939
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #583,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm Dave Lakhani, President of www.boldapproach.com, the nation's leading business acceleration strategy, sales and marketing, consulting and training firm. I'm also the author of Persuasion - The Art of Getting What You Want (Wiley Sept. 2005) and The Power of an Hour: Business and Life Mastery In One Hour A Week (Wiley 2006). Subliminal Persuasion: Influence and Marketing Secrets They Don't Want You To Know (Wiley), The 12 Factors of Business Success (Wiley) and How To Sell When Nobody's Buying (Wiley, 2009) I'm also the owner of www.howtosellwhennobodysbuying.com, www.howtopersuade.com, http://boldapproach.typepad.com and www.powerofanhour.com

Be sure to visit www.howtosellwhennobodysbuying.com and click on resources to watch videos and get great persuasion, sales, and marketing ideas. You can also see my appearances on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and other media outlets.

I love connecting with readers of my book so start a conversation here on Amazon, drop me an email or comment on my blog, let's talk. You can also follow me on Twitter or Facebook
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Road Map to Excellence, August 16, 2006

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Barbara Grassey "Author, Don’t Make Me ... (Florida’s Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week (Hardcover)

This book is an amazingly thorough, dense, content-packed work that should be on every business person's bookshelf. It is a tremendous resource for business consultants and coaches as well as the business owner. Dave Lakhani offers an effective system to implement not just change, but mastery in your business and personal life.

That being said, this book is not for everyone. In some ways, this is a difficult book. The exercises that Dave leads you through are thorough and and you will end up asking yourself some hard questions. Fortunately, you only have to tackle it an hour at a time. Dave doesn't do things half-way; his attitude seems to be "Why wouldn't you want to be the best in whatever you do?" The man is ferocious.

In that regard, I think this book is brutal and will weed out all but the people most determined to get their businesses and their lives to a level of excellence. And maybe that is okay. Too many people are happy comparing themselves favorably to mediocre competition. Let the slackers read the feel-good, warm-fuzzy books. This book is designed for people who work on a level of excellence and demand more from themselves and their lives.

52 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps I missed the point, August 1, 2006

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J. Herndon (Millbrae, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week (Hardcover)

I bought the book at the suggestion of Harv Eker, whom I respect. However, I found this book to be dogmatic and lacking the inspiration that I expected. I found that many of the chapters were dry, brief, and did not connect with me. I had the sensation of having someone who had heard "this is how to be productive with your time" from someone else and was passing on the cliff notes. Instead of this book, I would recommend Brian Tracy's Goals! - which gave me much more inspiration and practical exercises.

57 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have to admit, I didn't expect much..., May 30, 2006

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Tom Carpenter "- www.sysedco.com" (Marysville, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week (Hardcover)

I've read Dave Lakhani's book on influence and persuasion and, when I saw this title, I thought, "OK another author who sold a bunch of books and the publisher said - do you have another idea so we can bleed your market." Just being honest here. But boy was I surprised. I really enjoyed the book.

I have been teaching a model we call "The Foundations of Effectiveness" for more than four years. This book is a great resource for all those who've heard me talk about the importance of DISCIPLINE, which is one of the four knowledge areas within the SELF-MANAGEMENT Foundation. This book provides a set of simple techniques that can be used to form new habits and life patterns. This is in line with the definition we use for DISCIPLINE: the sum total of your habits.

In addition, Power of An Hour, will help you in the other two foundations: Relational and Technical abilities. Overall, this book is a great read and one that I would encourage you to read through at least twice to get all that it has to offer.

Tom Carpenter - Author: Wireless# Certification Official Study Guide, CWSP Certification Official Study Guide, and Foundations of Effectiveness: Making a Success of Your Career.