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The must-read summary of Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson's book: "Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life".
This complete summary of the ideas from Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson's book "Just Enough" shows that success is never predicated on one factor. It’s also very personal, because different people have different measures of success. In their book, the authors explain that everyone should take the time to decide what success means to them and they show the reader exactly how they can achieve their goals in a more effective way. This summary is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what they want from life and how to get there.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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Book PresentationJust Enough by Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson
Book Abstract
About the Author
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of Just Enough (Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson)
1. The Multidimensional Nature of Success
2. The Idea of Success as a Moving Target
3. The Concept of “Just Enough”
Book PresentationJust Enough by Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
Success is actually more multidimensional than simply seeking more and more money, fame or promotions. It’s also intensely personal and subjective – one person’s success may be termed another person’s failure and so forth.
With this in mind, before redoubling your efforts to succeed in your career and life, take some time to define what success actually means to you. Most likely, you’ll find to be a complete success, you have to succeed in four distinct dimensions:
Happiness – you have to feel personal pleasure and contentment about what you have achieved in life.Achievement – your accomplishments have to compare favorably with the goals that you’ve set for yourself.Significance – you have to make a positive impact on the people that you care most deeply about.Legacy – you have to establish your values in such a way that it will help others succeed in the future.Success isn’t about having passion and focusing relentlessly on making more money at the expense (if required) of everything else in your life. Rather, success means having just enough happiness, achievement, significance and legacy. When these four factors are in balance, your success will feel satisfying and worthwhile.
In sum, success is not about one thing or even an infinite number of things; it is about having just enough of the things that count, and not spending all your time in the pursuit of one narrow objective that you miss out on the genuine pleasure and richness success in the other dimensions adds.
The key to being successful is to have a good balance of just enough success in the four categories of happiness, achievement, significance and legacy.
About the Author
LAURA NASH is a senior research fellow at Harvard Business School. A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Nash has served as president of the Society for Business Ethics. She is the author or co-author of seven books including Good Intentions Aside, Believers in Business and Church on Sunday, Work on Monday.
HOWARD STEVENSON is a professor at Harvard Business School. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Dr. Stevenson has also been a business entrepreneur. He is the author or co-author of six books including Do Lunch or Be Lunch.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of Just Enough (Laura Nash, Howard Stevenson)
1. The Multidimensional Nature of Success
The popular perception of success is that “more is better”. In other words, the more money you make, the better. The problem, however, with reducing success to just one dimension like that is you never reach a point at which you can be completely satisfied. If everyone wants to be a millionaire, you may have to upgrade your definition and define success as being a billionaire. As this cycle repeats again and again, it will become clear that success can never be defined in a single measure, but exists in the degree of alignment of a number of measures: high achievement, multiple meaningful goals in life, the ability to experience pleasure and create positive relationships and accomplishments that endure.
The generally accepted definition of success is very one dimensional and predictable: the more money you have or the greater your degree of celebrity, the happier you will be.
The only problem with this definition of success is that many high achievers don’t actually “have it all” The long list of corporate high fliers who have been charged with fraud shows that these people are not to be envied and emulated after all. Instead, the concept of what it takes to be a success must be more multidimensional and must reflect your own unique values, needs and ideals far better.
Instead of just fame or money, success actually has a core set of four categories which defines it:
Happiness – the feelings of pleasure and contentment which you have about your life. When you’re happy, you feel like everything is coming together and you enjoy yourself.Achievement
