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Being a True VIP

Managing Importance in Yourself and Others

Eric H Kessler author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:5th Feb '16

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Eric Kessler's Being a True VIP brilliantly illuminates the role of IMPORTANCE in our lives, not as ego but as value and significance. With his inspiring and empowering ideas, Kessler enables us to answer age-old questions such as "Is my life important?" and "Does my life matter?" Your life will be much richer from having adopted his ideas. -Bill George, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; former CEO, Medtronic; author, Discover Your True North. Kessler shines a keen spotlight on the impacts we have on our significance and value at various levels and how we can enhance them. An affirming book, brimming with energy and thought. -Nigel Nicholson, London School of Business; Author, The 'I' of Leadership. Eric Kessler's book challenges us to peer into our own souls to more deeply question what lies behind our ambitions, hopes and aspirations. By charting a path toward greater authenticity Being a True VIP is a journey of self-discovery that can make each of us more powerful in who we are and what we do. -Bill Shore, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength; Author, The Cathedral Within.

The desire to be seen as a Very Important Person (VIP) is one of the driving factors behind humankind's professional, societal, and spiritual aspirations. In Being a True VIP, management scholar and author Eric H. Readers will be able to understand, personalize, and apply these lessons to manage themselves and others to be true VIPs.The desire to be seen as a Very Important Person (VIP) is one of the driving factors behind humankind's professional, societal, and spiritual aspirations. In Being a True VIP, management scholar and author Eric H. Kessler illustrates the nature of importance and how it relates to our success as employees and individuals. Through a clear and focused theoretical framework, he follows the paths that lead to importance, who determines it, and how it affects employee engagement and performance. Readers will be able to understand, personalize, and apply these lessons to manage themselves and others to be true VIPs.

“This is a scholarly, theoretical, complex book about understanding and managing importance in oneself and others. … The author explains why people are important sociologically, politically, economically, legally, and philosophically and how the external environment affects the path to importance. This book should be read by psychologists, PhDs, and researchers in the physical and life sciences. … The bibliography is excellent. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty only.” (D. W. Huffmire, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

ISBN: 9781137448040

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5029g

238 pages

1st ed. 2014