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ST. MARTIN'S PRESS<br />
Howard's Gift<br />
Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work<br />
Eric C. Sinoway with Merrill Meadow<br />
"A timeless classic . . . This is a book of head and heart, of wisdom and<br />
emotion . . . Tuesdays with Morrie meets What Color is Your<br />
Parachute?" —Mindy Grossman, CEO of HSNi<br />
With forty years at Harvard Business School, Howard Stevenson is renowned as an entrepreneur and business strategist,<br />
author, philanthropist, and professor. He has mentored more than ten thousand business founders, CEOs, professionals, and<br />
top business school faculty around the world.<br />
Written by mentee and successful entrepreneur Eric Sinoway, Howard's Gift offers Stevenson's timeless lessons on life<br />
and career. Full of personal and professional insight, this guide presents a series of thirteen strategies that can be applied to<br />
professional decisions on any scale. Through warm and engaging conversations with Sinoway, Stevenson focuses not just<br />
on business success, but on deep personal satisfaction through self-defined benchmarks for development and<br />
accomplishment. Stevenson’s lessons include:<br />
• Recognize inflection points: Learn to see and act on career-and-life-changing opportunities<br />
• Start at the end: Think carefully about your long-term goals, rather than cobbling together your life from short-term<br />
achievements<br />
• Is the juice worth the squeeze? Ask whether the effort you devote to one area of your life justifies the sacrifice of effort<br />
in another area<br />
• Cheating at Solitaire: Don’t set goals and expectations unless or until you have developed the skill, talent, and knowledge<br />
to achieve them<br />
• Plan for the ripple, not the splash: Understand that immediate decisions and actions are not as powerful as lasting ones<br />
Inspiring, practical, and wise, Howard’s Gift is a book for recent college graduates, mid-career people who are at crucial<br />
decision points, mothers re-entering the work force, and entrepreneurs trying to balance success with family and personal<br />
satisfaction.<br />
ERIC SINOWAY is an entrepreneur and seasoned executive with experience in for-profit, academic, and non-profit organizations. He<br />
is the cofounder and president of Axcess Worldwide, a New York-based partnership development company that creates inspired ideas<br />
and connects extraordinary brands and people(www.AxcessWorldwide.com). Axcess works with companies ranging from Rolls Royce<br />
and InterContinental Hotels & Resorts to Target and Delta Air Lines. Eric lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.<br />
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