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ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR
PUT YOUR MINDSET TO WORK
Put Your Mindset to Work provides practical and insightful strategies for assessing and developing organizational talent. A groundbreaking look at how to leverage your mindset to create an advantage in the marketplace.
Tamar Elkeles, PhD, vice president, learning and development, Qualcomm
The knowledge and concepts conveyed in this book are critical elements in the hiring equation. This book is a resource to any organization or leader who wants to recruit and retain top talent.
Chris Powell, executive vice president, HR, Scripps Networks Interactive
James Reed and Paul Stoltz dare to assert that skills guarantee nothing and that it takes more than guts to succeedits mindset that trumps everything. They back up this truth with real-life examples and impressive research on what really counts in getting the best jobs, reaching your earning potential, and flourishing beyond work.
Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling
The Leadership Challenge and The Truth about Leadership
This brilliant book is a game changer. Read it, remember it, and put your new 3G Mindset to work. Therell be no stopping you!
James Timpson, managing director, Timpsons
The brilliant insights this book reveals could have saved me and any top employer a lot of elementary mistakes, never mind the additional cost of bad decisions.
Gordon Roddick, cofounder, The Body Shop
A hugely informative and enjoyable book that through very practical, easy-to-use tools shows how you can develop your mindset to aid career progression. The case studies that punctuate the book are particularly inspiring and illustrate the key messages.
Simon Lloyd, HR director, Santander UK plc
The 3G Mindset will give you new insight and understanding into what it really takes to succeed at work. A good read that provides thought-provoking and practical advice for all those developing their careers.
Andy Doyle, group HR director, ITV Group plc
Put Your Mindset to Work changes the conversation when it comes to recruitment and selection. Everyone wants the winning mindset. This great book tells you what it looks like and how to make the most of it.
John Ayton, cofounder, Links of London
This book marries rock-solid science with compelling tools to provide the definitive solution to landing, keeping, and thriving in the best jobs. This one goes front and center on my bookshelf.
Harry Hoopis, chairman, Hoopis Financial Services
If you want a book that equips you to stand out from the crowd and become immensely desirable to the best companies, get Put Your Mindset to Work!
Christi Strauss, president and CEO, Cereal Partners Worldwide,
a global joint venture of Nestl and General Mills
PORTFOLIO / PENGUIN
PUT YOUR MINDSET TO WORK
James Reed
James Reed is the chairman of REED, the recruitment specialists. Every year, REED places hundreds of thousands of people into temporary and permanent work across a number of disciplines around the world. Reed first joined the company in 1991 after graduating from Harvard Business School. In the twenty years since then REED has more than quadrupled in size. The companys first Web site, reed.co.uk, has grown to become the number one job site in the UK and the biggest job site in Europe. It now receives more than 20 million job applications a year. REED also delivers welfare-to-work programs that have helped more than 100,000 people who had been long-term unemployed get back into work.
James Reed is the cocreator, along with Paul G. Stoltz, PhD, of the worlds leading theory and model for gauging and strengthening a winning mindset, the subject of this book, Put Your Mindset to Work. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Reed is based in Baker Street, London, in a corner building that was once owned by the Beatles and is now marked with a blue plaque commemorating the life and work of John Lennon. He lives with his wife and family nearby.
Paul G. Stoltz, PhD
Paul G. Stoltz, PhD, is the worlds leading expert on measuring and strengthening human resilience. He is the author of three international bestselling books on the subject, printed in fifteen languages. In 1987, Dr. Stoltz founded PEAK Learning, a global research and consulting firm, through which he coaches, consults, teaches, and collaborates with top leaders, thinkers, and influencers across an extensive range of organizations. As one of the worlds most highly sought-after thought leaders, presenters, and advisers, he combines inspiration with application, delivering a compelling and practical message to audiences of ten to ten thousand people in a broad range of indoor and outdoor settings, including some of the largest venues in the world.
He has been honored with such accolades as Top 10 Influential International Thinkers, (HR Magazine) Thought Leader of the Year, (Hong Kong) and One of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers of Our Time (Executive Excellence ). PEAK Learnings international headquarters is perched on a working cattle ranch in the rugged foothills of the central coast of California, where Dr. Stoltz resides with his family, who were honored by USA Today as Americas Most Creative Family.
This book is dedicated to all who seek to make work more than a job.
Introduction
WHY MINDSET MATTERS
The promise this book makes to you is simple: you can multiply your chances of getting the job you want and enjoy uncommon success at work while enriching your life immensely along the way.
Our promise is grounded in the surprising truth about what employers really want along with the rigorous scientific research and proven results of our years in the real world of business. We back up our promise and every claim we make in this book with evidence. No hype. Thats part of our promise too.
You can immediately apply the new tools and ideas we provide throughout to:
Triple your chances of getting and keeping the best job
Achieve seven times the value of a normal employee in the eyes of your boss or key stakeholders
Measurably enhance your earning potential
Be promoted over other, supposedly more qualified candidates
Create genuine job security by becoming the last person any employer would let go, even when the job cuts are severe
Earn top performance ratings from even the toughest boss or stakeholders
Flourish at and beyond work, at any stage in the game
And thats just for starters. All you need is the right mindset.
The BeginningThe Double Wake-up Call
This book is a collaborative effort that started when both authors experienced their own wake-up calls about what actually makes for a successful career. Our realizations relate to every worker, every applicant, and every employer. They are wake-up calls for you, an alarm that the tired old formulas are failing, that there is a new and better way to set yourself apart and fuel your success.
