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Moving the Needle: Get Clear, Get Free, and Get Going in Your Career, Business, and Life!
A detailed system that will help you achieve your professional and personal goals Moving the Needle provides both the "kick in the pants" and the game plan many of us need to break out of the rut and get moving to achieve our goals. CEOs, vice presidents, professionals, military personnel, and even college students frequently express frustration at the entrenched status quo, in which initiating progress feels like moving mountains. This book lights a path toward continual improvement, helping readers first find a direction, then make the key transitions that jumpstart forward progress. This highly practical guide outlines a change process that can be applied to professional or personal goals, giving readers a concrete plan for making big things happen. Rather than blindly shooting for the moon, readers will formulate a solid, systematic, actionable plan that can only result in progress. In today's tenuous business climate, employers and employees alike can be glued to the ground, unsure of the path they should take, or whether they have the freedom to move forward. Moving the Needle helps readers clarify their current position, identify their optimum position, and formulate a workable strategy for getting from here to there. Stagnation is diametrically opposed to progress. Moving forward requires a vision, a plan, and the impetus to get things done. Those who sense that big things can happen need to get clear, get free, and start Moving the Needle.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 2014
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About the author
Joe Sweeney
17 books4 followersJoe Sweeney has had a unique and interesting career. He has spent 30+ years successfully blending his love of business and his passion for sports to accomplish positive results for himself and for his clients. Joe has gained a wealth of hands-on experience through several diverse business ventures. He has owned, operated, and sold four manufacturing companies. His love of sports led him to head up the Wisconsin Sports Authority which helped him to launch SMG, a sports marketing and management firm that specializes in assisting and representing dozens of coaches and pro athletes (including three-time NFL MVP Brett Favre) in securing lucrative contracts and marketing deals. Additionally, Joe’s experience in mergers and acquisitions led him to purchase an equity interest in CFA, an investment banking firm, where he served as President and Managing Director. He is now an accomplished author, internationally-known speaker, trainer, and business consultant, as well as an investor in several private equity companies.
Joe’s primary passion in life has been studying human behavior and performance. He has used the fields of sports, business, and military as his laboratory to help better understand why certain people outperform others and what makes people tick. In addition to his wide-ranging business experience, Joe has served on 28 boards of directors and is currently active on six including Wintrust Financial Corporation (WTFC), the Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation, The University of Notre Dame Graduate Alumni Board for the Mendoza College of Business, and Town Bank.
Joe received his BA from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota where he graduated with honors in Industrial Psychology and his MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Joe has written three books: After Further Review, Moving the Needle, and The New York Times bestseller Networking Is a Contact Sport. He has given hundreds of keynote addresses worldwide to a variety of businesses and Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Wells Fargo, and Northwestern Mutual as well as numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, branches of the U.S. military including transitional training programs for the United States Navy SEALs.
Joe is a dynamic, humorous, fun, and caring person that has found his passion in inspiring others to make the most of their lives by believing anything is possible. He resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Joe’s primary passion in life has been studying human behavior and performance. He has used the fields of sports, business, and military as his laboratory to help better understand why certain people outperform others and what makes people tick. In addition to his wide-ranging business experience, Joe has served on 28 boards of directors and is currently active on six including Wintrust Financial Corporation (WTFC), the Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation, The University of Notre Dame Graduate Alumni Board for the Mendoza College of Business, and Town Bank.
Joe received his BA from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota where he graduated with honors in Industrial Psychology and his MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Joe has written three books: After Further Review, Moving the Needle, and The New York Times bestseller Networking Is a Contact Sport. He has given hundreds of keynote addresses worldwide to a variety of businesses and Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Wells Fargo, and Northwestern Mutual as well as numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, branches of the U.S. military including transitional training programs for the United States Navy SEALs.
Joe is a dynamic, humorous, fun, and caring person that has found his passion in inspiring others to make the most of their lives by believing anything is possible. He resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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December 18, 2015
This book was dropped off at our local free book exchange and the title seemed intriguing so I picked it up - and was terribly disappointed. Though the book was recently published, it appears to be written in 1985 by someone who has no idea of the impact of the great recession of 2008 and the terrible economic policies of the past 30 years on the vast majority of citizens. It is a complete trick- a regressed and antiquated political agenda masquerading as a 'self help' manual.
Instead, the obviously spoiled, sheltered and pampered gated suburban community author talks out both sides in the most pompous, entitled way possible- first he meanders on and on about the importance of service to others- which is obviously sadly lacking in this culture- while endlessly pats himself on the back for the only service to others he seems to actual give- buying the person behind him a cup of coffee at his local store. At the same time he works for corporate dictators, wall street and the banking systems in 'raising profits'- on the backs of workers and citizens. How he sleeps at night I have no idea.
He also is obsessed with Reagan, Bush and Ryan- more 'do as I say, not as I do' types. He also keeps rambling on about how all people 'have full control of their lives'- which all sociological and psychological research shows to be untrue. Genetics, environment and support (or lack thereof) play a huge role- as do luck and timing- which even Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have discussed. The author seems to have had no major losses, set backs or disappointment- which is the only way anyone in this life obtains any maturity or wisdom.
This sad mess of a books shows the mind of someone who has no idea how the economic world has changed forever- and in the wrong direction- and how many people have been left behind and left out no matter how hard they are working or how much they try to 'control their minds'.
Instead, the obviously spoiled, sheltered and pampered gated suburban community author talks out both sides in the most pompous, entitled way possible- first he meanders on and on about the importance of service to others- which is obviously sadly lacking in this culture- while endlessly pats himself on the back for the only service to others he seems to actual give- buying the person behind him a cup of coffee at his local store. At the same time he works for corporate dictators, wall street and the banking systems in 'raising profits'- on the backs of workers and citizens. How he sleeps at night I have no idea.
He also is obsessed with Reagan, Bush and Ryan- more 'do as I say, not as I do' types. He also keeps rambling on about how all people 'have full control of their lives'- which all sociological and psychological research shows to be untrue. Genetics, environment and support (or lack thereof) play a huge role- as do luck and timing- which even Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have discussed. The author seems to have had no major losses, set backs or disappointment- which is the only way anyone in this life obtains any maturity or wisdom.
This sad mess of a books shows the mind of someone who has no idea how the economic world has changed forever- and in the wrong direction- and how many people have been left behind and left out no matter how hard they are working or how much they try to 'control their minds'.
July 31, 2021
Great book!
December 10, 2014
I enjoyed Moving The Needle in audio format. It worked with my schedule to listen while I accomplished other things. Christopher Price’s narration is perfect and in an upbeat tone that keeps the listener motivated to know more. I liked that the audio version of this book came with PDF’s of several worksheets that are discussed in the book. Sheets I can print out and work along with the tasks that are recommended, and I do love the visual output of such tasks.
There was much to take away from Moving The Needle. I think in any book like this there are things that we know we should be doing (or are already doing), but I also learned a few things that excited me to get working on which was exactly the point of listening to this book. I liked that many other interesting books are mentioned to look into, some sounded wonderful and I jotted them down.
My only complaint (a mere grumble really…) was that by the end of the audio I felt there were so many tasks recommended that I felt a bit overwhelmed, feeling as though implementing such habits as described in the book would leave me doing nothing but tasks all day long. I had to remind myself that not everything needs to be implemented at once (or at all).
For my entire thoughts on this book please see my review at Book Journey: http://bookjourney.net/2014/12/04/mov...
There was much to take away from Moving The Needle. I think in any book like this there are things that we know we should be doing (or are already doing), but I also learned a few things that excited me to get working on which was exactly the point of listening to this book. I liked that many other interesting books are mentioned to look into, some sounded wonderful and I jotted them down.
My only complaint (a mere grumble really…) was that by the end of the audio I felt there were so many tasks recommended that I felt a bit overwhelmed, feeling as though implementing such habits as described in the book would leave me doing nothing but tasks all day long. I had to remind myself that not everything needs to be implemented at once (or at all).
For my entire thoughts on this book please see my review at Book Journey: http://bookjourney.net/2014/12/04/mov...
June 8, 2018
I enjoyed this book. It helped me to gain focus on what I want and where I am and how to progress to where I want to be.
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