January 29th, 2011 
charmy How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
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Gather successful people from all walks of life-what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!
A Wall Street Journal bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINKis the perfect, compact read for today’s fast-paced world.
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Great Little Book By Maxwell,
“How Successful People Think” by John Maxwell is a great little book and a timely read, particularly in a day where media and others encourage us to follow our feelings almost to the exclusion of thinking.
The book covers thinking in several areas:
1. Focused thinking.
2. Creative thinking.
3. Realistic thinking.
4. Strategic thinking.
5. Possibility thinking.
6. Reflective thinking.
7. Question Popular Thinking.
8. Shared thinking.
9. Unselfish thinking (get outside yourself!).
10. Bottom-Line thinking.
Each chapter is around 10 pages and usually contains the following that applies to the area of thinking being discussed:
1. Sayings by famous people.
2. Benefits of the particular type of thinking.
3. Principles to apply to improve your thinking in that area.
This is not one of those “touchy-feely” books designed to make you feel good about yourself. If that is what you are looking for, then do not bother to read.
Instead, if you want to improve your thinking in any of several areas, then this book is for you. The narrative flows freely and contains great information to inspire and challenge you.
Read, enjoy, and be challenged. Highly recommended!
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|My Own Pithy Comments,
I own several John Maxwell books on leadership. Years ago I came to the healthy conclusion that I was buying the same book over and over again. I purchased this latest Maxwell tome and discovered that yes, some things never change.
This book contains too many pithy comments wrapped around quotes obtained from quote.com or some other website. In the end, there is nothing new or radical in the book. Books from the hand of Maxwell as well as a plethora of other business authors have repeated these themes and “lessons” ad nausea.
Still, if you have never read Maxwell and are a beginner or need reminding, this is good book to start with. While it does not reveal any great truths, it also does not tell any lies. It is good, basic reading for the neophyte.
High Altitude Leadership: What the World’s Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) and Don’t Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success are two books that are worth the price.
I hope you find this review helpful.
Michael L. Gooch
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|Are you in the top 20% of your field?,
If you are in the top 20% of your field, you need to read this book?
Why read it if you are already in the top 20%? Because the reason most successful people are successful is because they STUDY success. Sure, it sometimes randomly happens, but most successful people are successful because they work at it and that includes studying it.
If you are NOT in the top 20% of your field and want to get there, you need to read this book. No, reading just this book won’t put you there. Reading it, studying it, applying the ideas and using this book as a stepping stone is the idea.
A journey has many stepping stones along the way. This book is one of them.
Proper actions come from proper thinking. And “how to think” can be learned.
Buy it, read it, study it, apply it….you will be glad you did if you indeed want to be successful in your profession and in your life.
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