Product Description

This book provides for each reader their own mini-revolution. This revolution is awakened by the personal stories, life-changing examples and opportunity for self-exploration that Ken offers.

Are You Fascinated? is not for everyone . . . just that person who is fed up with the same old thing and hungry to do something positively new and different with their life. When was the last time you took a real look at where you are and where you are going? Recently? Or has it been awhile? Are You Fascinated? provides practical strategies to `fire up' the "fascination" that will energize you to clarify what it is you really want out of life, and provide you with practical tools to achieve your goals.

Take this fascinating trip with Ken. Really, what do you have to lose, except years of regret for not starting sooner?

You can experience more and greater success. The time is now, and fascination, is the dynamic power that the four people who help you succeed, can and will use - If you are willing?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1764094 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Released on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 106 pages

About the Author
Ken Tucker started a ground breaking management consulting company on the premise that fascinated employees provide the greatest return on investment to their organizations. Ken started his company, Ken Tucker and Associates, LLC, after many years of being a Principal Consultant and highly sought after speaker with The Gallup Organization.

Ken Tucker's expertise is in helping clients transform disjointed organizations and workgroups into high performing teams. He uses the organization's metrics and initiatives as a basis for increasing per employee productivity. For the executive team, Tucker uses customized tools and strategies that increase execution by reducing the distance between time of decision and time action is taken. Additionally, he advises leaders and instructs managers on how to unleash employee discretionary effort to drive long-term business outcomes.

As a frequent keynote speaker at national conferences, board retreats and corporate events, Ken uses humor, real life and business examples, stories and anecdotes to effectively reach his audiences.

Tucker received his bachelor's and master's degree from The University of Nebraska at Kearney. He was selected as a Kellogg Fellow in 1998. Ken Tucker is a native of the Bahamas.

Customer Reviews

Are you kidding me?
Am I fascinated? No, I'm afraid I was mostly just bored.

Now that women are too busy to wonder if they're "Women Who Love Too Much," "Women Who Run With the Wolves," or just need to be "Codependent No More," the trade in pop psychology has been drying up. So publishers are aiming for a new niche market: struggling working class people.

But Tucker didn't even get that far, opting instead to vanity publish, presumably because he can then pull a David Pelzer and sell it on the lecture circuit through Ken Tucker & Associates - his DC consulting firm that bills itself as creating "fascinated employees."

It probably goes without saying that Tucker does not suggest CEOs "fascinate" their employees by ceasing to steal their 401Ks in order to provide them with health benefits. No, all we need to get "fascinated" is to find our "People-picker" and our "Dream-maker." But when even the Collins imprint won't stoop to buy your pitch, maybe it's time to find a new "Possibility-vendor."

Really, what Tucker most needed was an editor. Who the hell puts Peter Drucker on a list alongside Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi?

If the economy continues to decline, I expect we'll see more of these things, not-so-subtly blaming working people for their own financial problems. Though, personally, I would stand in line all night to spend my last remaining grocery money on "What the Hell Are We Going to do Now?" by Ben Bernanke or "Shrugging Off Atlas: I Guess Ayn Rand Really Was Just a Narcissistic Bitch After All" by Alan Greenspan.

Dear Reader, stop now if...
"...deep down inside, you know that you are not living up to your potential."

Do you lead a life fascinated by life's possibilities? Do you yearn to shift your life into another direction? Yes? Then you should read this book.

In all honesty, I briefly hesitated before responding to a request to review the manuscript for this book. Mainly because, I rarely, if ever, review manuscripts; however, I found the book title intriguing. "Are You Fascinated?" As a result, I committed to reading the introduction and the first chapter.

But after reading the introduction I became engulfed in this book that I've struggled to classify. Why? Well, because Mr. Tucker's book carried me through a string of emotions while providing some great life and business advice. I found myself physically moving closer to the book as if I could somehow affect the outcome of the stories before my eyes. Such provoking stories and life experiences invoked a sense of urgency for action--and transformation.

Mr. Tucker then takes things a step further. He identifies the key people needed in your life to make your transformation achievable--the impossible possible. And he walks you through the process of giving, or receiving, what's needed in those relationships to bring about fascination in your life and the lives of others.

While reading this book you'll ask yourself, on more than one occasion "am I fascinated?" And as you read the last pages you'll learn many things. But two lessons, I can assure you will become clear:

(1) You'll discern whether you're fascinated--engaged by life and those around you--and

(2) If you learn that you're not fascinated, you'll have the resources to identify those four key people that are needed to make your transformation possible.

Get engaged. Become fascinated.

Now, I'm fascinated!
Wow, what a page turner! I couldn't put it down. "Are You Fascinated?" is truly a personal journey in book form. Ken Tucker has a gem here and you should get this book right away. It doesn't matter whether you are in a searching mode or whether you think you have it all together. You can learn something from this book to help you move forward with purpose. This book would be great for a team to read together . . . a staff of one kind or another. You've heard it here, don't wait, get started on the road to being as fascinated as you have ever been in your life.