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The Titanium Professional

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This is quite an interesting book for today's busy professionals. Its primary focus is simply a smorgasbord of strategies & tools for developing a higher level of increased personal effectiveness, flexibility, durability & resilience.

The author uses the term 'independent capability' to denote the new range of skills needed to survive in the 21st Century. His metaphor of 'Titanium' is just to reinforce the concept of resilience & inner strength.

According to the author, these are the five keys to independent capability:

- self control & self management;
- initiative & proactivity;
- empathy & perception;
- effective team skills;
- analytical thinking;

As the author has admitted, he draws most of the inspiration from Stephen Covey's 7 Habits for Highly Effective People & Daniel Coleman's EQ series of books.

The presentation of strategies & tools in the book is not ground breaking, but I want to compliment the author for synthesising practical insights from HR management with career pursuits & changes in today's contantly changing world. He even adds his own experiences, case studies & interviews with thoughtful review & analysis. As such, it is a practically readable & highly relevant book for busy professionals.

My favourite chapter of the book is Chapter 3: Anticipating the Future. It looks at the six major influences on the nature or work as the 21st Century commences:

- globalisation;
- technology;
- communications;
- the changing expectations of workers;
- changes in organisations;
- the increasing velocity of change itself;

In fact, my personal interest in the book is drawn particularly to this specific chapter in the first place.

To sum up my review, I enthusiastically recommend this book to all busy professionals who want to achieve career satisfaction & financial success in the 21st Century.