Andrea Molloy - Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success At Work

Take a pot of tap water and place it on the stove. Intensify the heat and wait as the temperature rises. Turn the heat all the way up to 99 degrees Celsius and nothing looks a lot different. But then turn the heat up by just one more degree, and it happens: the pot becomes a boiling, steamy cauldron.

You are holding such a catalyst in your hands. Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success at Work is about driving your career ambitions and desires to full boil.

This book takes a holistic approach, providing the ingredients required to make your success vision materialise. This approach is powerful. Why? Because it shows the link between cause and effect we begin to see that success is a result of multiple initiatives or tasks undertaken simultaneously. Done in isolation, they will not achieve an optimal result. However, done as part of a comprehensive plan, the sky is the limit. Incredibly powerful stuff!

Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success at Work is a must-read. Within its pages, I found a startlingly concise summary of everything Id seen successful people do and initiatives Ive undertaken since embarking on my career. Thirteen years later, I am now the managing director of New Zealands largest IT outsourcing organisation. If only this book had been available 13 years ago, my journey to date would have been smoother and faster.

A critical step in achieving success is to deconstruct negative beliefs and align your new attitude to your success vision. In my case, I had a crystal-clear vision that before I turned 40 I would lead a large New Zealand company and, one day before my 40th birthday, that vision came to fruition. However, if 13 years ago I had conformed to the beliefs of others with regards to my career potential, I would not be where I am today. Quite simply, I chose not to; instead, I constructed a vision of my future career and a plan to realise it.

Author Andrea Molloy quite rightly states that there is no secret to success other than hard work, planning and taking action. So while there is no secret, the content of this book provides an excellent structure and vehicle for your success at work journey, so get to it!

In summary, if there is room for only one career book on your reading shelf this year, this is it. This book not only lives up to its title: in my opinion, it exceeds it!

Steve Murray

Managing Director, EDS (New Zealand) Ltd

Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success at Work is a must-read for anyone aspiring to be the best they can possibly be in their career.

The book provides a very comprehensive toolkit which covers all of the critical areas for job success and work/life balance. Andreas style makes the content very accessible and captures the maturity of her thinking and reasoning as well as very practical tips for success.

Even experienced senior managers would benefit from using the book to reflect upon where they are in their career and to assess what they want next. For those starting on their career journey this book will provide an invaluable resource.

Joan Withers

CEO, Fairfax New Zealand

Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success at Work is a practical guide that can benefit New Zealanders at all stages of their careers, from the enthusiastic young graduate looking to climb the first rungs of the career ladder, to the seasoned manager dealing with large teams of people in a corporate environment.

Andreas latest book covers all of the bases: creating your own vision for success; time management; goal setting and understanding your personal values; the principles of effective leadership; and taking care of your personal well-being and health by exercising regularly, managing stress and eating right.

Molloy argues, persuasively, that this holistic view is the key to creating and sustaining success in the busy modern workplace. Its certainly an approach Ive taken in senior leadership positions in New Zealand and Australia.

When work occupies such a central part of our lives, surely its important to make this part as enjoyable and fulfilling as possible. This book can help you to do that. So stop procrastinating and making excuses, and start reading!

Ann Sherry

Chief Executive, Westpac New Zealand

Finally heres a simple, clear and practical guide to enable any person in the workforce today to achieve greatness beyond imagination and maximise their potential.

Determining aspirations, initiating a plan to change, always loving what you do, and aligning your work to your values are at the core of every career success story. Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success at Work will help you understand the key factors needed to become and stay successful. Realistic and proven strategies are explored and recommended including one that took me a long time to discover that of maintaining a healthy lifestyle promoting vitality and well-being, which Ive found to be as beneficial for the mind as the body.

When you are starting out, building your confidence and learning to trust in your abilities will provide two of your greatest assets but these are often the hardest to learn so use this book to help you to be better than you ever thought you could be.

This book will be priceless to all, regardless of whether youre already on a career path or wanting to embark on a new journey.

Helen Robinson

Managing Director, Microsoft New Zealand

Success: The Ultimate Guide to Success is a book that will help any employee make tangible changes that will ensure huge advancement for them within their work environment. Employing over 120 women within my company, I saw this as an excellent tool for each and every one of them, at all levels.