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Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
Asians and Asian-Americans make up 4% of the U.S. population ..and 20% of the Ivy League. Now find out how they do it. The numbers speak for themselves: 18% of Harvard's population; 25% of Columbia's; 42% of Berkeley's; 24% of Stanford's; 25% of Cornell's... What are Asian parents doing to start their kids on the road to academic excellence at an early age? What can all parents do to help their children ace tests, strive to achieve, and reach educational goals? In this book, two sisters-a doctor and a lawyer whose parents came from South Korea to the U.S. with two hundred dollars in their pockets-reveal the practices that lead Asian-Americans to academic, professional, and personal success. The authors contend that Asian-Americans are no more intelligent than any other race or ethnic group. They say, "the reason Asian students out-perform their peers in the classroom has nothing to do with how they.
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The C Student's Guide to Success: How to Become a High Achiever Without the Best Grades, Connections, or Pedigree
A very practical, step-by-step guide to career success for those who lack top grades or family connections Some people graduate from college, and employers covet them: They are the best and the brightest, with stellar grades and great connections, able to land their dream jobs with major corporations right after school. This book is not for those people. In The C Student's Guide to Success, leading advertising executive-and former C student-Ron Bliwas presents a program of ten can't-fail principles for climbing to the top using your brains and talents-rather than family connections or fancy degrees. Bliwas uses real-world stories of business leaders, revealing how they identified and overcame their own weaknesses, and vaulted ahead of peers who had money and family connections. In surveying the come-from-behind success stories of his subjects, Bliwas provides creative, insightful, down-to-earth advice for new graduates, the recently employed, and those with a few false starts under their belt. In ten simple chapters, Bliwas teaches you how to: _ Make the most of many mentors _ Trust your instinct _ Strive to be a better person than employee _ Take responsibility seriously _ Master the art of purposeful learning _ Take advantage of unexpected opportunities _ Sell what you believe _ Go where the stars aren't _ Be a smart risk-taker _ Overcome straight-line thinking Bliwas encourages readers to embrace unconventional strategies, unexpected opportunities, and their own instincts, and to realize that opportunities for career growth exist everywhere-not just on the traditional path to job advancement..
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Peak performance principles for high achievers
PEAK PERFORMANCE PRINCIPLES FOR HIGH ACHIEVERS Revised Edition is Noes dynamic and updated story of how he transformed himself sedentary and outofshape in his midthirties into the dynamic leader he is and how you can too.John R. Noe is using his mountainclimbing adventures as an allegory for the challenge of goal setting and the thrill of high achievement. Noe shows you how to choose accurate goals how to reach them how to remain committed to the accomplishment of a goal whether earthly or spiritual and in shorthow to become a high achiever. To help you succeed Noe offers a unique philosophy of reaching beyond selfmotivation to the spiritual motivation that comes from God.Reading this book the reader will be able to Outlines the essential attitudes of a high achiever. Develop the skills and drive to reach the summit Learn the six essential attitudes of a higher achiever1. High Achievers make no small plans2. Are willing to do what they fear3. Are willing to prepare4. To risk failure5. To be taught6. And must have heart..
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An Iron Will
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The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness
"The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness is a very practical book that provides both a strategic framework to understand why high achievers do what they do as well as plenty of real-life examples on how to achieve the right work/life balance in your own life. I found this to be a refreshing reminder of what's really important in my own life as well as what I need to do to keep it all in perspective. Highly recommended reading." -Kip Knight, Vice President, Marketing eBay, Inc.
"A great reference to get people thinking about themselves and their professional happiness. A school leader could use this information with teachers, students, parent groups, and community groups." -Gwen Gross, Superintendent Manhattan Beach Unified School District, CA
"This book makes a contribution to the entire world. From educators to professionals in any work organization, all would benefit from using the practices in this book in their lives." -Kim Boelkes, Principal Eastview Elementary School, Canton, IL
"The authors got me thinking about my own life purpose, for whom I am living, and my vision. I found the strategies useful and positive!" -Gail Houghton, Chair/Associate Professor of Educational Leadership Azusa Pacific University
Do you feel that happiness and fulfillment are still missing even after reaching the high goals you set for yourself?
You’re not alone. According to research by well-known educator and life coach to Fortune 500 leaders Vance Caesar, only 8 percent of high achievers feel happy and fulfilled. This simple, straightforward, easy-to-reference guide explores the profile of a high achiever and provides tools throughout for improving one’s own leadership style and incorporating more happiness along the way. The authors provide leaders and aspiring leaders with seven keys to gain fulfillment in all areas of life, including one's career: - Discovering and articulating your life Purpose
- Possessing a Vision to set your direction
- Attitudes and beliefs for finding Meaningful Work
- Developing Energizing Relationships
- Creating Peace in your life
- Reviewing, Renewing, and Recommitting to your purpose
- Forming the habits of Discipline
Filled with personal anecdotes, thought-provoking examples and questions, reflection exercises, and easy-to-implement models, this inspirational resource is a must for those interested in more deeply connecting personal values, vision, and satisfaction to life and work and in modeling that connection for others. This is a book you will return to again and again as your personal life coach! (20050613).
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If You Think You Can!: Thirteen Laws that Govern the Performance of High Achievers
Most people set out unequipped to achieve Just as there are certain laws that govern nature, there are laws that govern performance and achievement Unfortunately, people are either unaware of them, and therefore do not align themselves accordingly, or they simply are not applying them. As a result, many people chase after goals, but find that the results they desire constantly elude them. If you want to be someone, achieve something, or get somewhere in life, you must understand the governing laws that turn dreams into reality. Over the last few hundred years of recorded history, common denominators that lead to personal success have consistently surfaced. TJ has gathered these distinctions into a single book to share with you. The pages of this book are filled with moving stories and examples of success and failure that will inspire all who read them. TJ shows you what habits must be formed and what steps must be taken to achieve any goal you set. Simple and concise, If You Think You Can! is the source that will help you achieve whatever you want..
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Eric Lindros: High-Flying Center (Sports Achievers Biographies)
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Bring Your "A" Game: The 10 Career Secrets of the High Achiever
The first 10 years of your career can often be the "make it or break it" period. Bring Your "A" Game shows you how to define your career plan early on, with sound advice on how to acquire the critical building blocks and time-tested workplace skills you need to get ahead. Throughout his career, Rob McGovern has employed and mentored hundreds of young professionals. In Bring Your "A" Game, he shares the 10 common attributes that are consistent with career high-achievers, or "A" players, as well as contingency procedures when something goes wrong, such as getting fired, having a stalled career or realizing that you hate your job. Filled with real-life situations, anecdotes, pointed direction and practical methods for dealing with any workplace situation, Bring Your "A" Game is not just another "how to find a job" book - it's a how to have a career book. .
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High Achiever: The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington
The best-known mountaineer in Britain for almost 40 years, Sir Chris Bonington is still the public face of climbing. Through his books, lectures, and TV films, he's become a great ambassador for promoting every ascent in the mountain world. At 65 years old, this self-described "climbaholic's" passion and enthusiasm remain undiminished. Despite his high profile, Bonington essentially remains a shy, complex man with many human failings. The man high up on the Eiger, Annapurna, and Everest is a leader frequently assailed by self-doubt and often devastated by the deaths of close friends. High Achiever examines Bonington's deepest motives and reveals the joys and occasional despair of living a life at the limits of physical and mental experiences..
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