Straight to the Top and Beyond: Nine Keys for Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times [Hardcover]

John Amatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 1996

You'll find this metaphor of adventure an excellent tool to introduce the concept of change and challenge to your managers. This gripping account of an expedition to the peak of Mount Everest holds lessons in innovation, decision making, and teamwork that will remain with your managers as they face their own daily challenges.

Through this adventure, your managers will learn nine keys for meeting today's challenges:

• Adaptability
• Desire and Determination
• Vision and Values
• Experience
• Natural Curiosity
• Teamwork and Trust
• Unlimited Optimism
• Risk-ability
• Exceptional Performance

Straight to the Top and Beyond will help you and your managers embrace change, become comfortable with uncertainty, and become visionary and adventurous in dealing with the new social, political, and economic environments evolving today.

Get a copy for all your executives and managers

Editorial Reviews

Review

John Amatt's Nine Keys are the blueprint for personal and professional success, a must read for those who want to survive and thrive in today's uncertain environment. -- Harry Rhoads, Jr., President, Washington Speakers Bureau

John Amatt's extraordinary adventures have been carved out of an otherwise ordinary life. His achievements are powerful testimony to his "Adventure Attitude" philosophy. -- Sharon Wood, first North American woman to climb Mount Everest

John is a modern adventurer who can not only spin a great yarn, but who possesses the rare knack of turning his journeys into universal revelations that guide his readers and listeners on how to survive and prosper in the global village. -- Peter C. Newman, author of Caesars of the Wilderness --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

John Amatt, mountain climber, CEO, and author of the new book Straight to the Top and Beyond, is one of North America's most requested professional speakers and has delivered over 1,500 presentations to corporate and professional audiences of over 750,000 people in more than 35 countries worldwide. For more than 30 years, John has led expeditions to remote regions of Peru, Nepal, China, Greenland, and explored areas of Arctic Canada, making many first mountain ascents. At age 20, John made the first-ever ascent of the 5,000-foot Vertical Mile Troll Wall in Norway. Some years later, following his participation in Canada's 1st successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, John founded One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative educational and motivational company dedicated to teamwork development and pursuit of personal peak performance in work and play. John uses the metaphor of adventure to present strategies for addressing the challenges of our rapidly-changing world. To succeed, we must learn to become risk-takers, to become visionary and adventurous in dealing with the new social, political, and economic environments in which we be forced to live. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 175 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (March 8, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893842966
• ISBN-13: 978-0893842963
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,559,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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