Filling the Glass : The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business (Paperback)

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For many of us, there is a disconnection between what we believe we should be doing in our careers and our lives, and what we actually find ourselves doing. In Filling the Glass: the Skeptic’s Guide to Positive Thinking in Business, author and speaker Barry Maher provides ten strategies to overcome that disconnect, turning the job (and life) you have into the job (and life) you want—so that you never have to settle for half full or half empty again.

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Praise for Filling the Glass:

“…one of the few must-read books of the year. Packed with useful, practical advice, it’s also entertaining and frequently laugh-out-loud funny.”

—Jerry Colangelo, CEO of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, and Coauthor of How You Play the Game: Lessons for Life from the Billion-Dollar Business of Sports

“Barry Maher makes an uplifting, enlightening and inspiring contribution to the world of business with Filling the Glass. I’d make the book required reading for any MBA program, because it transcends mere business and moves up onto the spiritual plane with commonsense and yet rarely practiced wisdom. His book is as readable as it is practical. It’s loaded with anecdotes and brimming with insight.”

—Jay Conrad Levinson, Author, Guerrilla Marketing

“Filling the Glass…is about attaining our professional aspirations. Some of the best business leaders in America have reached the pinnacle of success by following the same lessons that this book highlights.”'

—James M. Citrin, Coauthor, Lessons from the Top: The Search for America’s Best Business Leaders, and Managing Director, Spencer Stuart

IT’S NOT WHETHER THE GLASS IS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL—IT’S HOW YOU FILL IT UP

Barry Maher has helped hundreds of the nation’s top organizations with his enormously successful sales strategies (“Make your biggest liabilities your strongest assets!”). Now Maher takes these same techniques and shows non-salespeople how to achieve success and satisfaction in business, and in life.

If you can’t justify to yourself what you are doing with your life, if you aren’t working toward goals in which you honestly believe, then you will never be—by your own standards—successful. Filling the Glass provides you with ten strategies to turn around your career—and your life—so that you never have to settle for half full or half empty again.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Business (December 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793138655
• ISBN-13: 978-0793138654
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,253,656 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A first rate business book.. A wonderful reading experience!, January 24, 2001

By	Alison Adamson (from the midwest) - See all my reviews

Having seen Maher speak, I picked up a copy of Filling the Glass as soon as I heard about it. Reading the book is even better than hearing him in person, because it lasts longer. I couldn't recommend the book more highly. Rich practical knowledge, a world of insight, fascinating and entertaining anecdotes, it's even extremely funny. It's certainly the only business book I've ever read with a conclusion that actually brought tears to my eyes. Wonderful!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most likeable books I've read in years!, February 7, 2001

By	"stephen32" (Newburg, NY) - See all my reviews

Inventive, insightful, instructive, inspiring and funny. Filling the Glass is a surprisingly effective and effecting book. One minute you're laughing out loud, the next you're nodding your head in agreement, the next you just have to pause to let a powerful point sink in. As the author acknowledges, many of the strategies are novel and few are familiar, things we know to be true but which we probably haven't really made part of our lives yet. As promised, he provides great new insights even into the familiar strategies and, more importantly, practical tips for incorporating them into your career and/or your life.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Idealism for the real world, January 12, 2001

By A Customer

Filling the Glass deals with the nuts and bolts real world, yet underneath it all the author conveys a pragmatic idealism which makes reading the book an extremely enjoyable experience. It includes tactics and tips, both useful and humorous (sometimes both at the same time), has entertaining and instructive anecdotes, and an ending as satisfying as a good novel. Beyond that, I really think that I will be able to use more than a few of the strategies here in my life and work, and I can't say that about many of the business and management books that I've read.

Strangely enough, one thing I didn't like was that the book ended on the last page, right before the back cover. It sounds strange but for some reason the way the book was set up, I got the feeling that the printers were trying to use as little paper as possible. I know that sounds picky but Filling the Glass itself has an expansive feel when you are reading it, so it bothered me that the physical book didn't seem to reflect that.

Guess I'm getting more neurotic as I grow older.