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Secret Habits Of Successful BastardsAdrian MaileYour Price: $46.99 Free shipping on orders over $65! 
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Description Secret Habits of Successful Bastards is the funniest and painfully truthful self-help book for people who are too nice to ever be successful. It explores why you have to be self-centred, tough, ruthless and unpredictable to be successful. This book illustrates how you can be more successful by giving you 100 ways to be more of a bastard so that you get what you want and do what you want more often. Using real-life examples and tongue-in-cheek humour this book will change the way you look at how success is achieved and help you operate more successfully in everyday life. Editorial Reviews Press Review But there are those who argue that niceness in any form is a luxury we can't afford - not if we desire success and a large house in the country. In his new book, Secret Habits of Successful Bastards, Adrian Maile, who worked for 30 years in the technology industry, claims that niceness is the kiss of death to successful entrepreneurship. Business, he says, needs leaders who are totally self-centred. Maybe he's right. - Margaret Kavanagh, The Daily Telegraph, 12 January 2008, UK From the Publisher Adrian Maile has written a humourous and powerfully thought provoking book about what it really takes to become powerful, wealthy and successful. His book provides practical insight into why nice people never win and how people should adapt their own behaviour to improve their chances of success in our competitive world. At the top of the Technology industry for over 25 years, Adrian Maile has 'been there, done and it and worn the t-shirt' dealing internationally with some of the best known successful bastards in the world of business whilst successfully building his own family and social network. Secret Habits of Successful Bastards will make readers laugh for sure, but will also drive them to question how their behaviour affects their chances of success and make them more aware of others that may be working against them, whether at home, at work or in social contexts. |
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Customer Reviews
Darren Blunden's Review of Secret Habits Of Successful Bastards
I loved this book, even though I hated what it said. It tore me up a bit. I believed you could be nice and successful, but now I really wonder. That?s the beauty of this book. It makes you question your values and those of the people around you.
Rose Watson's Review of Secret Habits Of Successful Bastards
Is this book serious, funny, truthful or deceptive? Strangley it's all these things at once; a bit like life itself. Which is appropriate because that's what this 'self-help' book is all about, taking off the blinkers for a moment and thinking about the fundamentals of how our behaviour affects our chance of success. This book takes the extremes of toughness for sure, but it balances the hundreds that do not, in the process. Compelling stuff indeed and highly recommended.
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