The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction

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The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction
by James M. Citrin, Richard Smith
from Three Rivers Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Keeps you focused on long term success.
  It can be easy to feel insecure about your performance in a highly competitive environment. Failure to receive immediate and visible affirmations of success, such as bonuses, promotions and awards, may lead to the belief that you have not succeeded.
  This book helps to keep you focused on things that lead to long term success. The idea of "detached impact" suggests that creating real value for yourself and your organization will always lead to reward, but not always immediately.

• Great Insight but Reads Like an Infomercial for Harvard Business School
  This book offers great insight into behaviors that create an extraordinary career. However, it would have been nice if Mssrs. Citrin and Smith had come down from the ivory tower long enough to do more research in fields other than business.
  All of the examples in the book are taken from the business world but, contrary to reviewer Chuang's opinion below, I believe these principles work equally well in technical and artistic fields. Most of the examples are Harvard Business School alums who started in... more info

• Excellent guide to those starting out or early in their careers
  To be clear, 5 Patterns is not a job hunting guide, nor will it help you figure out what career is right for you. What the book does offer are approaches/ways of thinking about your career that are valuable for those early in their careers.
  This book is aimed at those in the business world, as all of its examples and much of its guidance focus on success stories in business (like Lou Gerstner of American Express/IBM fame). The themes are general enough to be applicable in other fields, but I don't... more info

• Valuable insights
  If you are looking for step-by-step handholding, this book will not provide that. Rather, "5 Patterns" identifies 5 patterns, as you might gather from the title, that are common to successful leaders. I prefer that approach to the all-too-common connect-the-dots approach of the typical management/leadership book that attempts to shoehorn you into the "one true formula" for success. "5 Patterns" provides a good balance between personal histories of successful leaders and the lessons that one can learn from... more info

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