The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
Author: Brian Tracy
List Price: $15.95
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 1576751260
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub (09 January, 2002)
Sales Rank: 22,529
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
YOU MAY HAVE READ IT ALL BEFORE-BUT READ THIS REGARDLESS!
For the last four years I have read all of the self-help, business, financial, and psychology books I've come across. Brian Tracy's tape set; The Psychology of Success was the first audio experience I had with this genre of material. From that time on, I've read, or listened to almost all of Mr. Tracy's material. While I can't say that this is a better book than Maximum Achievement, it is every bit as good. Brian Tracy may not use material which he can totally call his own, he portrays it in a way which relates more to us in our time than his predecessors. I loved this book. You will too! Some day I hope to meet him and thank him personally for how much his motivational materials have changed my life.
Rating: 4 out of 5
100+ Business Classics in One Book
This is a great book for someone who doesn't have time or want to read a lot about how to have more business success. It will probably be most appealing to people in their 20s who are trying to make some sense out of how to get ahead, but don't have much education or experience on the subject. Tracy has taken one or more ideas (usually without attribution) from almost every good business book in the last 20 years, and turned them into a list of 100 ideas.Now a 100 ideas sounds like a lot. You should know that Tracy often breaks them into subsets, so the total is really somewhere between 300 and 400 ideas. You'll really feel loaded down before he's done sharing with you.
They are all about positive thinking, exchanging value for value, and being persistent. Ben Franklin would approve of the emphasis on improvement. For example, the first set of laws are about Life -- and they read pretty much like a modern version of Think and Grow Rich.
Two things bothered me about the book. One was the lack of attribution (except for a list of books at the end). For example, Tracy says that the purpose of a business is to create a customer -- perhaps Peter Drucker's single most famous quote, but you look in vain for quotation marks or a reference to Drucker. The book that Drucker said it in (Management) is not cited in the bibliography.
The second thing that bothers me is that in some places Tracy is a little behind the curve. In the Dell-like Internet world, products and service can be customized for each person and that will be the wave of the future. Tracy still talks about segmenting customers rather than individualizing for each customer.
So you might ask, why should I read this book? Frankly, it's because you probably won't read all of those books in his bibliography. This way, you'll at least get Tracy's take on what all of this means. One of the nice things about his work is he gives you directions for how to begin applying each principle.
My final quibble is that there is an appendix with pages of services and products that Tracy sells. I don't think such advertisements belong in a business book that someone has paid for. Skip the appendix.
May you find a few principles here that cure your stalled thinking about what you need to be doingin your life to be a bigger business success! That would turn this book into a stallbuster for you!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
This book by Brian Tracy is excellent. It is the compilation of Brian's over 30 years of business experience. It shows how Brian has become a business success himself and has turned around many failing companies. If you are in business or want to be and more importantly, want to be successful, then this book is for you. If you are m y competitor, PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! Brian's advice is one of the things that sets me apart.
Thank you Brian!
Similar Products
Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
MAXIMUM ACHIEVEMENT: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS THAT WILL UNLOCK YOUR HIDDEN POWERS TO SUCCEED
Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Goals: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Book Index