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.
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.
