Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot

商家名称	信用等级	购买信息	订购本书
		Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot
		Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot

基本信息·出版社：Ballantine Books
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2005年08月
·ISBN：0345471873
·International Standard Book Number：0345471873
·条形码：9780345471871
·EAN：9780345471871
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 No fight left? No future? Does the handwriting on the wall say utter failure? 

Harvey Mackay, one of the world’s best-selling motivational and business authors tells you why it isn’t so. He reveals anecdotes and secrets from some of the best and brightest headliners in our world today. Their gripping accounts show that no one is immune to bad judgment or backstabbing. In colorful detail, these remarkable success stories reveal what the best of the best did to get back on top.

Each story tells a unique tale and contains valuable lessons that are applicable to any reader who wants his or her career to flourish; indeed, this is the book that will inspire, instill hope . . . and give more than a glimpse into what makes these stalwarts strong.

When Fortune magazine called Mackay “Mister Make-Things-Happen,” it was right on the money–getting this amazing group of people from various walks of life to talk openly about their abilities to bounce back shows him to be a master at getting people to divulge some of their defeats and their dreams.


Hopeful, tough-minded, and filled with indispensable advice, We Got Fired! . . . And It’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us will show anyone how to turn a modern bummer into a major blessing. It’s a rarity: a sure thing in our shaky times.


From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介 Harvey Mackay is author of four New York Times bestsellers. His first two books–Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt–were #1 New York Times bestsellers and are listed by the New York Times among the top fifteen inspirational business books of all time.

Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty (1997) and Pushing the Envelope (1999) both cracked the New York Times bestseller list. Mackay’s books have sold more than ten million copies worldwide, been translated into thirty-five languages, and been distributed in eighty countries.

Mackay is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Feature Syndicate; his weekly articles appear in more than fifty newspapers around the country. He also is one of America’s most popular and entertaining business speakers, having been named one of the top five speakers in the world by Toastmasters International.

He is chairman of Mackay Envelope Company, a $100 million company he founded at age twenty-six. In April 2004, Harvey received the prestigious Horatio Alger Award.

Harvey Mackay lives near Minneapolis with his wife of forty-four years, Carol Ann. They have three children, nine grandchildren, two dogs, and one cat.


From the Hardcover edition.
文摘 Out of the Closet

“How do you define a secret? When one person knows it.”

Right now, I know something you don’t. I got fired, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me! I—Harvey Mackay, who has been sharkproofing the world against job loss with over 10 million books sold since 1988—was fired. I’m now out of the closet. It wasn’t that I tried to hide a black spot on my career. It was that I didn’t think the whole deal was all that important. Last year I thought about it further. And then I realized it was important. Not maybe the firing itself, but the lessons I learned as a result of it. It literally changed my life. But it was embarrassing. So I had dodged giving it any significance for more than half a century.

Here’s the straight story. My father, Jack Mackay, was the Associated Press correspondent in St. Paul, Minnesota. He virtually had only one job his entire life . . . and yes, he stayed around for thirty-five years to collect his gold watch. He was the best of the best. He took a backseat to no one, especially when it came to delivering scoops . . . the lifeline of a reporter.

Growing up as a kid, I came from modest beginnings, and my father was insistent there was no substitute for working odd jobs during summer vacations and Christmas holidays. I had a myriad of short stints from setting pins at a bowling alley to delivering newspapers to working at a driving range.

It was summer vacation my junior year in high school and I had just landed a neat job at a downtown St. Paul men’s clothing store . . . and, of course, my father with his connections got me the job.

Now, peddling pants, socks, underwear, ties, hankies, and occasionally a shirt or two may not sound like the most glamorous position in the world . . . but in retrospect, it was a great gig. At a young age, I had an opportunity to learn about business . . . having a boss to report to . . .
……

查看更多 下一篇