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Maximum Achievement

The book in one sentence

Success is a set of learnable skills, and the master skill that unlocks the rest is the habit of setting clear, written goals and working on them every day.

Who it's for

People who feel busy but directionless, managers and salespeople who want a single reference on self-management, and anyone starting out in personal development who wants the core ideas in one place.

The big idea

Brian Tracy, a Canadian-born speaker and trainer who left school without finishing and worked labouring jobs before moving into sales, spent years asking why some people achieve so much more than others. Maximum Achievement is his answer, distilled from the seminar programme he had been teaching for years. His conclusion is that results are not luck. They follow from how you think, what you believe about yourself and, above all, whether you know exactly what you want.

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