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The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.

Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake. The secret to high performance and satisfaction - at work, at school, and at home - is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

What if you could see around the corners of your life? There are certain days in life that stand out because they are among the toughest that you or someone you love will experience. Your quality of life is a function of how you handle these days when they arrive. Will you be ready? Will you survive and be better for it, or will you cave? In Real Life, Dr. Phil McGraw gives you a crisis plan for confronting what he believes are the seven most common...

By identifying the 3 personality types in business and walking you through the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature perspective, the author teaches you how to grow your business in a predictable, productive way.