Work Like You're Showing Off: The Joy, Jazz, and Kick of Being Better Tomorrow Than You Were Today

by Joe Calloway

• ISBN13: 9780470166871
• ISBN10: 0470166878
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A guide to creating joyful success in work and in lifeWhat the world needs is more showoffs.Showing off is a good thing. Showing off is a mindset. Showing off is about living life and doing work in a way that creates joy, jazz, and a kick in our lives and in the lives of those around us. This is a business book for almost everyone-from executives and managers to receptionists and sales clerks. Here's the key: success is an inside job. After 26 years of studying and working with top performers, Joe Calloway shares the key factors in creating success-without pulling any punches. Work Like You're Showing Off! isn't for sissies; it's a tough, realistic approach to getting the most out of life by giving more to others.This book proves that not only is "working like you're showing off" the smartest way to get ahead in a career, it's also the most joyful and rewarding way to live."Work Like You're Showing Off! the absolute keys to personal and professional success including: Never be as good as you're going to be What you think of me is none of my business Expect to connect Get back inside the box Grand stupidity and absurd bravery What have you done for me next? Joe Calloway (Nashville, TN) is an expert on high-performing organizations and individuals, the owner of an award-winning restaurant, and a member of the International Speakers Hall of Fame. His clients read like a Who's Who of business-from newspa-pers in Sweden, hotels in Great Britain, and computer companies in South Africa to world brands like BMW and IBM. He is also the author of Becoming a Category of One (0-471-76807-3) and Indispensable (0-471-70308-7), both from Wiley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Showing Off

Grand Stupidity and Absurd Bravery

All Hat and No Cattle

Let It Go

The Gold Standard

Get in the Damn Boat and Go

As Good as You're Going to Be

We See Things as We Are

Stupid Promises

Let's Be Too Much

Imagination Will Take You Everywhere

Get Back Inside the Box

Expect to Connect

Going All In

Joe and Muhammad

We Haven't Seen That

The Pursuit of Happiness

The Enemy of Future Success

What You Think of Me Is None of My Business

Whatever Happens Is Normal

Guess What I Want and Other Stupid Mind Games

I Said I Don't Know

The Golden Circle of Ignorance

What Have You Done for Me Next?

The Power Strategy

Your Next Best Idea Is Everywhere

What Matters Most

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