Product Description

With innovative techniques derived from proven corporate performance tools, Success Mapping will help everyone, from students to CEOs, plan for lasting and meaningful success. Filled with inspiring anecdotes and focused on actual achievement, Success Mapping cuts through doubt and confusion with simple yet rigorous actions.

Success Mapping describes how to identify the eight success blockers that are keeping you from achieving all you can. As you head toward a career or life goal, your Success Map engages you with motivational exercises and checkpoints to mark your progress. As you develop your Success Map, you will learn how to:

• Focus energies on what matters most
• Seize goal-relevant opportunities
• Leverage your personal strengths
• Transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones
• Ask and get the support you need
• Make wise decisions and take actions with no regret
• Manage change to prevent self-sabotage
• Measure, track, and celebrate your success

Success Mapping ensures that you take the necessary steps to create your own life strategy and follow it through to success. No more excuses. Believe in yourself and get started. Success Mapping will guide you, step by step!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360481 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
I love this book! It's the perfect guide for achieving success in the twenty-first century. Don't open it unless you want to change your life. ----Sue Dark, CEO, DeepNines Technologies

About the Author
Arlene Johnson, founder and president of Sinequanon Group, Inc., is an internationally known speaker, author, and consultant with more than two decades of experience in executive leadership, change management, and sales performance coaching. Her wide-ranging expertise and unique approach has led many companies to extraordinary results. She has advised Fortune 500 clients such as American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Alcatel-Lucent, Bombardier Aerospace, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, and numerous other fast-growing, entrepreneurial companies. Arlene resides in Dallas, TX.

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Customer Reviews

Cartology for personal development

Mapping is one of the most valuable processes that both individuals and groups can use to impose order on what may have been previously unfamiliar. It could be an ocean, a continent, a region, or a forest; it could be an area of a city or the floor plan of a building; and it could be any number of important business subjects such as contingency planning, crisis management, change initiatives, performance measurement, and ROI. In this volume, Arlene Johnson offers an eight-step process by which to create a map for individual achievement. "In other words, SuccessMapping...the processes we can use to realize more of our personal potential."

After identifying the "eight success blockers," Johnson devotes a separate chapter to each of the eight steps. It is helpful to think of the process of personal development as a journey of discovery as well as a sequence of achievements. I agree with Johnson that many (if not most) of the most valuable lessons will be learned from mistakes and even failures. In this context, I am reminded of a time when the current Cisco Systems CEO, John T. Chambers, asked the then GE CEO, Jack Welch, "What does it take to have a great company?" Welch replied, "It takes major setbacks and overcoming those." The same is true of individuals. Jack Dempsey once said that champions "get up when they can't." Those who embark on the eight-step process that Johnson recommends must be patient and determined, preferably tenacious.

Fortunately, Johnson does a brilliant job of organizing her material and then presenting it within a sequence and framework that enable her to establish and then sustain a personal rapport with her reader. In certain respects, she functions as a travel agent. In other respects, she functions as a mentor. To me, she seems to be a pragmatic idealist: she combines a passion to understand and then explain what works, what doesn't, and why with an rock-solid faith in what is possible if (huge "if") an individual is willing and able to make and then sustain a commitment to her or his personal development. Johnson is to be commended for her skillful use of a number of reader-friendly devices in each chapter that include a brief list of purposes or objectives, the relevant "Success Blocker," "Important" reminders that serve as heads-up, self-audits that actively involve the reader in the process, and a "Checkpoint" at the chapter's conclusion.

Given the scope and depth of the material in this book, it needs an index. Not providing one is inexcusable. However, there are four uncommonly informative appendices. My guess (only a guess) is that Appendix Three: Success Map will be of greatest interest and value but after a careful reading of the first appendix, "At a Glance - SuccessMapping® Step Checkpoints," and then completion of exercises in the second, "SuccessMapping Worksheets." I also presume to suggest that those embark upon the eight-step process keep a journal near-at-hand and record their daily initiatives, what they learned from them, their thoughts and feelings, and anything else that will expand and enrich the learning process.

Many years ago during a televised interview, the actor Rod Steiger was asked if young people ever asked him for advice. "Oh yeah, sure, all the time, and I always ask them the same question: Do you want to be an actor...or do you HAVE TO BE AN ACTOR? The longer it takes them to answer, the less chance they'll ever make it." The same is true of the process that Arlene Johnson recommends. That is the challenge and, yes, that is also the opportunity. Those who read this book are urged to check out the wealth of resources at www.SuccessMapping.com.

Success Mapping - A Jolt of Reality
This is a book you have to pay attention to. A few pages into it, I realized that unlike other business books, I could not read it while riding the stationary bike. I had to pay attention, participate, and engage. Get out your pen and start reflecting and wrtiting down your thoughts because Ms Johnson asks the tough questions, and, she expects you to respond. She is passionate about helping you achieve success - however you define success. I'm sure it will be marketed as a business book, but honestly, it has application for your personal life too. This is a must read - and must experience, if you wish to change some part of your life, and who doesn't.

With tips on gaining focus, finding the strengths and weaknesses of one's company, and avoiding being your own worst enemy
If you're waiting to find your fortune by happenstance, you're going to be waiting awhile. "Success Mapping: Achieve What You Want...Right Now!" is a guide for planning out your businesses' future so that it may finally achieve the successes readers are so often after. With tips on gaining focus, finding the strengths and weaknesses of one's company, and avoiding being your own worst enemy, Arlene Johnson provides readers with much sound advice. "Success Mapping" is a top pick for those who feel their business is lacking direction outside of nowhere.