Be a Shortcut: The Secret Fast Track to Business Success

By Scott G. Halford

Shortcut is the new catchphrase that identifies high-quality, influence and value in employees and executives. Be A Shortcut is a business book that provides new frameworks and tactics to help a broad range of individuals become the professionals their company can't live without. The book shows you how to actually become a Shortcut using Halford's proven, Shortcut success formula. You'll gain more influence, become more valuable, get promoted faster, find better customers, get better raises - no matter what you do. Shortcut is a way of thinking, a way of doing, a way of being - and when you commit yourself to it, you'll write your own ticket to wherever you want to go.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470270365
• ISBN13: 9780470270363
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

What a great book!

I truly enjoyed this book. As a Realtor, it made me think about how I could become a better short cut for my clients. In these troubled times, being a short cut is more important than ever! It also made me remember to be thankful for all of the amazing short cuts I have in my life who have helped make me successful. The stories were great and the approach refreshing.

You can't afford to miss this book

This book grabs me in the gut with gratitude for the amazing Shortcuts in my life and calls me to find my place in the world as a valuable Shortcut for others. The stories are educating as well as entertaining. It's very clear why the subject of Shortcuts is important, what the basic components of a Shortcut are, and precisely how I can become a better shortcut. The Shortcut Inventory Quotient included in the book and also online is a great assessment of current Shortcut capabilities and also a way to demonstrate progress and development over time. As an organization development practitioner, I can only imagine the performance and value companies can unlock by helping every single employee be a better Shortcut. The leaders that embrace the Shortcut concept will transform their organizations.

Practical and real

Scott Halford's "Be a Shortcut..." is the perfect instruction manual for success in business today; as part of a small private practice, I have given copies of Halford's book to each of our employees as a means to sparking excellence and pride in the office. "Be a Shortcut" combines humor and truth in ways that make his learning points easy and immediately accessible, and I am excited to see how incorporating these exercises into our lives and our work-spaces will bring future success. Matthew P Breeden, MD

A must for the emotionally intelligent and more so for those that are not!

Scott Halford has hit a homerun with this book! Be A Shortcut is to the point with great ideas and a common sense approach on how to live life and be a success in business. I hope everyone I know reads this book and becomes "A shortcut". Christmas shopping just became easy ....all my friends and colleagues will be getting this book from me this year. Molly McNichols, Asheville, NC