Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way

By Nan S. Russell

Book Overview

Hitting Your Stride advocates learning how to use your uniqueness at work--the best of who you are--to be rewarded with interesting work, personal growth, and financial gains. Nan shares her 10 "Winning at Working" Lessons--common sense, but uncommon practices, ways to help you reengage your talent, create your own luck, differentiate your work performance, and make a difference at work. Nan's stop-wishing, start-creating approach offers savvy insights to help you get ahead, enjoy working, and achieve financial rewards. Her motto: "Opportunity is anywhere and everywhere. While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can create your own luck and turn your dreams into reality." Using a story-telling approach, mixed with commentary, analysis, and reflective exercises, Nan identifies mistakes, struggles, disappointments, failures, and successes in the workplace. Hitting Your Stride is an inspiring business-and-life book, with an individualized approach to bringing the best of who you are to work from someone who has been an employee, a manager, and a senior executive. It reinforces the message that whether or not you climb the corporate ladder, winning at working is individual. Hitting Your Stride will help you find your way there, along your own path and with your own style. WINNER 2009 Silver Medal Award winner in the Success/Motivation category: AXIOM Business Book Awards

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193310256X
• ISBN13: 9781933102566
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Buy it not just for yourself but for your friends and family too!

I can't think of a better book to recommend for folks thinking about their future during these challenging times. Nan provides personal examples, valuable success stories, and thoughtful ideas for moving toward work that is authentic and passionate. It is interesting reading throughout. She shares insightful ways to move toward career success. This isn't one of those books filled with platitudes and simple clichés. This is a keeper. I especially like the way Nan lets us into her thinking. We see how she has struggled with situations. I particularly appreciated her chapter on "Shades of Grey," sharing how most work issues can't be dealt with in absolutes but are, rather, as she says, more human, more complex, and more heart engaged. Life isn't black or white. Her other chapters - like Creating Your Own Luck, Bringing Yourself to Work, and Waking Up - helped me to understand myself better and what I can do in my life to "Hit My Stride." Buy it for yourself, but also for friends, co-workers, and family who are reconsidering what they want their work to be and to become.

worth owning

No-nonsense career advice, dispensed with anecdotes from the author's own life to make for friendly reading. Unlike preachy self-help books that end up sitting unread on the shelf, this book invites repeat visits and is set up so that you can dip into chapters in whichever order appeals to you.

How to Have A Career Not Just A Job

This book is not just pie in the sky theory and philosophy. It is full of ideas and simple practices to create your own successful career path and be happy at the same time. Ms. Russell shares inspiring quotes, real-world experiences and entertaining stories that make this book an easy read.

Down to earth, insightful advice for anyone in the corporate world today

A great read. Finally, an honestly written commentary on the corporate world and sage advice for anyone looking to make a difference. This book asks the tough questions. The advice is insightful and relevant.

If you are fresh out of college.....

I bought Hitting Your Stride for my nephew who graduated from college last year and can't seem to find his niche in the corporate world yet. I read it before I gave it to him, there is a lot of wonderful information written in a fun and engaging way for any young person starting their career. Ms. Russell has done a fabulous job using many interesting scenarios. I highly recommend this book for all young people and their parents, it gives you a new outlook on what your children are facing and how they can handle these new challenges. Times have changed, that's for sure.