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Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Want to learn some important lessons about business and life? Why not go straight to the source. Get Smarter is billionaire Schulich's brilliantly idiosyncratic and informative attempt to impart lessons learned in a lifetime to today's youth by someone who has achieved success in both his personal and professional life. In short, stand-alone chapters he covers such universal issues how to make a decision; manage all types of relationships; choose a career; deal with adversity; key business issues; investing lessons.
Advice that will last a lifetime ... from someone who knows.
"Schulich has a business school named after him. But when it comes to giving career advice, the former stock analyst who struck it rich ... is anything but academic. In Get Smarter ... he ladles out homespun wisdom in ... crisply written, anecdote-laden chapters aimed at 20- to 40-years olds, but golden at any age. He states his hope that each reader who invests time and money in the book will leave with 20 to 30 ideas---some that can help transform or shape their lives. In fact, he delivers."---The Globe and Mail
"Here's a suggestion for those football fans aged under 30 who spend Sunday afternoons watching a game that features five minutes of action and takes three-plus hours to Drag yourself away from the box for one that has been written by Seymour Schulich. The book is full of pearls of wisdom, advice, stories and thoughts across a variety of themes."---The National Post
Advice that will last a lifetime ... from someone who knows.
"Schulich has a business school named after him. But when it comes to giving career advice, the former stock analyst who struck it rich ... is anything but academic. In Get Smarter ... he ladles out homespun wisdom in ... crisply written, anecdote-laden chapters aimed at 20- to 40-years olds, but golden at any age. He states his hope that each reader who invests time and money in the book will leave with 20 to 30 ideas---some that can help transform or shape their lives. In fact, he delivers."---The Globe and Mail
"Here's a suggestion for those football fans aged under 30 who spend Sunday afternoons watching a game that features five minutes of action and takes three-plus hours to Drag yourself away from the box for one that has been written by Seymour Schulich. The book is full of pearls of wisdom, advice, stories and thoughts across a variety of themes."---The National Post
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304 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2010
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July 6, 2016
This book came to me as a recommendation by my mentor. It is an easy read. It took me about 3 to 4 hours to read it. I recommend it but it is shallow in certain areas. The subtitle is "Life and Business Lessons". When the author writes on Sex, Love and Friends it is pretty shallow. I would suggest he stick to giving business and investment advise which is an area he knows a lot about. The book is made up of 49 short 2 to 4 page chapters and then two blank pages in between. Also large font and lots of spaces used. Not a tree saver but he touches on environmental issues a bit. Maybe he should take his advice on the environment more serious. I give it three out of five stars.
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June 5, 2016Short, disjoint chapters. Some will suit your taste, some will not.
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