8+8+8 Minutes to Change Your Life
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In 24 minutes, this much needed life-hack will open your world to new ways to understand and create business and personal success in your life. Written by an experienced business executive it aims to provide a quick guide to unleashing the inner you.
It calls for an end to holding hands and singing Kumbaya, and provides a tool to energize and ignite your inner most desires. Just as Caesar placed God-like statues of himself around Rome, the business leadership literature of today, mostly focuses on how to be the ideal cut-out. Experience has unveiled an alternative darker view, which Frederick Anderson brings to the fore in a few key takeaways. At best it will knee-jerk you into success, or at worst it will provide you insights into some of the dynamics of success in your business or personal network. So go on and take a plunge – it may just lead you down an interesting wormhole.
Frederick Anderson
An only child who grew up in the country, I had little to do but read. I wrote my first story when I was nine, about a monster that lived in the hills behind my home. It scared me so much I hid the pages under my bed at night and still had nightmares about it! An embryo stage career, nipped in the bud by an injudicious marriage (fortunately for the theatre, I think) and a lifetime of jobs that haven't really meant anything in themselves, but which afford me a rich font of characters. I hope they will leap from the page for you as they do for me! This year I was short-listed for the Aeon Short Fiction Prize.
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8+8+8 Minutes to Change Your Life - Frederick Anderson
8+8+8 Minutes to Change Your Life
A Dark Side to Success
Frederick Anderson is a Service and Operations Executive with over 15 years experience in Financial Services and Management Consulting. Away from the plush corporate offices and the daily ground coffee, Frederick Anderson also spent an early career in an open cast copper mine which he describes as a real baptism by fire on many levels. He has a passion for understanding leadership in its different guises, and aims to share his personal insights with a growing community of people in search of success. He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Mechanical) and a Masters in Business Administration.
Copyright © 2016 by Frederick Anderson.
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
ISBN 978-0-620-73377-9
Happy Factory (Pty) Ltd.
P.O. Box 2460, Halfway House, 1685, ZA
Contents
Preface
Chapter One: First 8 minutes
Action 1: Develop a Hunger
Action 2: Create and Maintain the Network
Chapter Two: Second 8 minutes
Action 3: Behave like Number One
Action 4: Create Constructive Chaos
Chapter Three: Third 8 minutes
Action 5: Play Judge, Jury and Prosecutor – never Defence
Action 6: Scare Yourself Everyday
Glossary
References
Preface
Business literature abounds with both qualitative and quantitative research of what it takes to be a successful leader in an organisation; or in your life. And to be honest, after much research and observation on what happens in real life, there is a darker side that very few researchers explore in terms of truly understanding leadership. After 15 years in various positions in seven companies, many of which are multinationals, I was disillusioned, and could not find a conclusive link between all the do good
theories and what really happens in many granite embossed corridors.
The time for holding hands and singing Kumbaya in the workplace belonged in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It