Investing in Your Life: Your Biggest Investment Opportunities are Not Necessarily Financial
Author(s): Ian Pollard (Author)
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 27 Sept. 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 9781742169316
ISBN-13: 9781742169316
Book Description
The great investors of our time have taught us many lessons about generating enormous wealth through investment; but what if we could use those principles to realize our full potential — not only financially, but in our relationships, education and careers?
In this book, businessman and executive coach Dr Ian Pollard will take you on a thought-provoking journey that will encourage you to view your conversations, relationships, opportunities and decisions in a whole new light.
Pollard’s multi-disciplinary approach will help you discover how to:
improve your conversation and decision-making skills
understand and manage your strengths and weaknesses
build relationships and expand your networks
change negative behaviour patterns
learn from success and failure
make uncertainty work better for you
achieve a better work/life balance.
By inspiring you to view your own development through the eyes of an investor, Investing in Your Life will help you appreciate the size of the opportunities available to you. This book will empower you to maximise your potential by actively investing in the best opportunities, and will make your life more meaningful, satisfying and rewarding.
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The great investors of our time have taught us many lessons about generating enormous wealth through investment. But what if we could use those principles to realise our full potential – not only financially, but in our relationships, education and careers?
In this book, businessman and executive coach Dr Ian Pollard will take you on a thought-provoking journey that will encourage you to view your conversations, relationships, opportunities and decisions in a whole new light.
Pollard’s multi-disciplinary approach will help you discover how to:
improve your conversation and decision-making skills
understand and manage your strengths and weaknesses
build relationships and expand your networks
change negative behaviour patterns
learn from success and failure
make uncertainty work better for you
achieve a better work/life balance.
By inspiring you to view your own development through the eyes of an investor, Investing in Your Life will help you appreciate the size of the opportunities available to you. This book will empower you to maximise your potential by actively investing in the best opportunities, and will make your life more meaningful, satisfying and rewarding.
From the Back Cover
The great investors of our time have taught us many lessons about generating enormous wealth through investment. But what if we could use those principles to realise our full potential – not only financially, but in our relationships, education and careers?
In this book, businessman and executive coach Dr Ian Pollard will take you on a thought-provoking journey that will encourage you to view your conversations, relationships, opportunities and decisions in a whole new light.
Pollard’s multi-disciplinary approach will help you discover how to:
improve your conversation and decision-making skills
understand and manage your strengths and weaknesses
build relationships and expand your networks
change negative behaviour patterns
learn from success and failure
make uncertainty work better for you
achieve a better work/life balance.
By inspiring you to view your own development through the eyes of an investor, Investing in Your Life will help you appreciate the size of the opportunities available to you. This book will empower you to maximise your potential by actively investing in the best opportunities, and will make your life more meaningful, satisfying and rewarding.
About the Author
Over the past three decades Dr Ian Pollard has been chairman, director or CEO of more than thirty companies. He is an experienced executive coach with Global Coaching Partnership, and has had a wide-ranging involvments in the not-for-profit sector. He is an actuary and Rhodes Scholar, and has represented Australia in tennis. Ian also serves on the advisory councils of both JP Morgan Australia and the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Since his youth, Ian has been interested in the development of people’s capabilities and relationships, their identification of opportunities and the magnitude of what some people achieve and contribute in their lives. He especially admires those who have done this despite disadvantage and material adversity. Ian is particularly interested in the personal qualities and the events and processes which make these remarkable achievements possible. Ian has written a number of books on corporate finance. Investing in Your Life is Ian’s first book on the building of people’s capabilities.
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