"This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives." --From publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Contents
Striving for utopia
The ABC's of getting ahead
A dreadful delusion
That dirty little word
The case is back
Looking out for number 1
The false promise
The wisdom of failure.
ISBN
1-5275-5417-1
OCLC
1158452367
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