Product Description

Training Yourself, has been described as a career survival manual, a reality check, and as $50,000 worth of advice for under five dollars. This book is Charles D. Hayes' vital philosophy of self-education applied to the workplace. Regardless of the nature of your job, your politics, or whether you work for a nonprofit organization or the size of the business that employees you, the advice in this little book will forever change the way you think about your work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #830656 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Ronald Gross, Chair, University Seminar on Innovation, Columbia University
"Truly a handbook for thriving at work in the new economy. Every worker, manager, and professional will find this manual inspiring and immensely serviceable. Hayes tells us what we must do and how to do it."

About the Author
Charles D. Hayes, is the author of "Beyond the American Dream: Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World", "Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People without College Degrees", and "Self-University: The Price of Tuition is the Desire to Learn. Your Degree is a Better Life."

Customer Reviews

A book needed now, more than ever
As a manager in a large corporation, I know the constraints organizations have in adequately training their employees. No matter how good a company is when training their employees, the quickly changing knowledge and skill requirements of today's marketplace require that employees be proactive in obtaining their own training. If someone reading this book only takes away the idea that training and education is something you take, as opposed to something you get, the book is worth reading. But luckily this book offers lots of other useful information and advice. I was so impressed with this book that I bought every member of my staff a copy.

Quite a disappointment...no new insights beyond the author's earlier two books!
In actuality, this book is more of a booklet, with 90 odd pages.

This book is probably the third or fourth book from Charles Hayes, whose two earlier books, entitled "Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People without College Degrees", & "Self-University: The Price of Tuition is the Desire to Learn. Your Degree is a Better Life." are really great stuff. Please read my reviews of these two wonderful books!

Unfortunately, this book, again self-published, is quite a disappointment, at least from my personal perspective, as it offers no new insights beyond what have already been expounded in the earlier two books.

For first timers who have not yet read any of the author's earlier books, I reckon this book can still possibly serve as a inspiring guide with useful tips for thriving at work in the new economy.

If you are seriously interested in exploring the mechanics of self-directed learning with the view of ensuring your career security, please get hold of the author's two earlier books as outlined above.

I regret I have to give it a rating of 3.

Expensive, cheap, short
This is a short book, about 18000 words, almost a pamphlet. For the price there isn't much content, and the book is cheaply made. If it cost $1 or were given away, I would give it another star. I read it in a day, by the end of the day the binding had already cracked, and the book was falling apart.

The ideas have some merit, but the book also has the flavor of an advertisment, pitching the author's website and materials there.

If you find a copy, or someone loans it to you, it's just about worth the time to read it. But it makes for an expensive purchase.