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Roadmap To Success: America's Top Intellectual Minds Map Out Successful Business Strategies
The Roadmap to Success includes the chapter, Charting Your Course to Work-Life Balance by Dr. Heidi Scott. It will be featured alongside work by Dr. Ken Blanchard and Dr. Deepak Chopra in an exceptional compilation of resourceful people who will tell you how they learned how to be successful.
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First published October 30, 2008
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August 6, 2013
There are contributions to this book by many authors. The most outstanding for me was written by Laura Schlafly. I am an average boomer who is considering what’s next for me in this life. After reading Laura’s chapter I finally understood what a career coach does and how it can help me. Laura's simple style of writing in this chapter made her points easily understood. There was not "integrated" terminology where I had to figure out the meaning of the phraseology. Laura used clear thinking facts that I could follow along with her very welcomed shared life experiences. Like the writer I have done many different things in my life. I sold real estate, I had a bridal business, I did research for a national luggage company, scenery for a ski fashion show, but in to my 60's I didn't know how any of it could help me on a new career path. By the writer sharing her past it made me feel more confident that I could move on to another new horizon using some of my old talents. I do not yet know if I will start a business of my own, or seek employment in the future. I now see how a career coach can help me decipher my own decision for a future career path.
August 10, 2013
I have read quite a few books by Deepak Chopra and Ken Blanchard and always find them enormously insightful. As a Baby Boomer, and also a small business owner, I was looking forward to reading Laura Schlafly's chapter on 'Encore Years'.
I have made major career changes in my life time and I wanted to gain some insight into that process and experience. Laura's chapter did just that. I found myself reflecting on the past choices I made, why I made them, and what I might want to consider should I change my career again in the future.
We Baby Boomers need to keep all of our options open when it comes to creating meaning in our lives and financial security. As a generation, we are paving a totally new road for retirement; my parents retirement experience was totally different than what my and my husbands is going to look like. I need all the options, guidance, suggestions and insights I can get.
Laura's thoughts and her own personal experiences gave me some initial ideas into what I need to consider as I enter my 60's and begin to think about my long, richly meaningful ,retirement.
I have made major career changes in my life time and I wanted to gain some insight into that process and experience. Laura's chapter did just that. I found myself reflecting on the past choices I made, why I made them, and what I might want to consider should I change my career again in the future.
We Baby Boomers need to keep all of our options open when it comes to creating meaning in our lives and financial security. As a generation, we are paving a totally new road for retirement; my parents retirement experience was totally different than what my and my husbands is going to look like. I need all the options, guidance, suggestions and insights I can get.
Laura's thoughts and her own personal experiences gave me some initial ideas into what I need to consider as I enter my 60's and begin to think about my long, richly meaningful ,retirement.
August 2, 2013
There is one chapter in particular that I enjoyed: “The Encore Years - Finding Meaningful Work in the Second Half of Life” by Laura Schlafly. Laura is founder of Career Choices with Laura, a career coach whose specialty is helping others (especially “baby boomers”) to discover their "second act" careers.
In the chapter that Laura wrote, she focuses on how such people can find a second career which will be both lucrative and fulfilling. She offers up three categories of effective approaches to doing this: be a career "recycler", career "changer," or career "maker".
She gives in-depth advice about how to do this based on your skills, interests, and career history. Laura has solid advice for those of us wishing to find their second-act career, and having done so herself, she is an inspiration to us all.
In the chapter that Laura wrote, she focuses on how such people can find a second career which will be both lucrative and fulfilling. She offers up three categories of effective approaches to doing this: be a career "recycler", career "changer," or career "maker".
She gives in-depth advice about how to do this based on your skills, interests, and career history. Laura has solid advice for those of us wishing to find their second-act career, and having done so herself, she is an inspiration to us all.
January 17, 2014
This book is very enlightening especially Chapter 12, "The Encore Years" by Laura Schlafly. I am in my early fifties, seven and a half years ago I was downsized by my employer and had to make a life altering career move that today I am extremely happy I did. Due to the volatile job market a co-worker and I started our own business. Never owning a business and extremely scared of failure, as do most start-ups do, we persevered (even through the economic downturn in 2008). I wish back then there would have been someone to help guide me through. Figuring out what to do in our careers as we get older is very challenging. Laura's insight & expertise with helping people navigate through these life decisions is amazing. I recommend this book to everyone.
August 24, 2013
I was delighted to read the chapter of Laura Schlafly, The Encore Years: Finding meaningful work in the second half of life.
It is not always simple to combine paycheck and passion, and we tend to postpone this challenge all along our life. Laura shows us that it can be achievable and not as intimidating as one may think for Baby Boomers. Also it is never to late to learn, grow and especially do what we truly want to do while having an income, which I believe is important in order to be fulfilled.
As she has broad experience into different fields and a sincere determination to help Baby Boomers, she gives meaningful advice full of insights in finding an Encore career.
It is not always simple to combine paycheck and passion, and we tend to postpone this challenge all along our life. Laura shows us that it can be achievable and not as intimidating as one may think for Baby Boomers. Also it is never to late to learn, grow and especially do what we truly want to do while having an income, which I believe is important in order to be fulfilled.
As she has broad experience into different fields and a sincere determination to help Baby Boomers, she gives meaningful advice full of insights in finding an Encore career.
January 28, 2020
If you are a fan of Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey, this is an enjoyable read to get a little more perspective into how they approach things (e.g. projects, business, life). The mid-range rating is only because it is an incredibly thin book in interview format. It is a pick it up, take a few notes for inspiration and pass it along book. Content accentuates the bigger content presented in the individual authors’ writings.
April 8, 2016
I would have to say that I had high expectations for the book which were not met. Set us an interview narratives, I would have preferred everyone getting the same questions, and the authors finding the emergent themes.
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