Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure Since its publication in 2011, What's Stopping You? has offered readers a hard look at the quality of their careers and personal lives.
Trade Review'Commonsensical advice for the intelligent reader (Management Today, June 2012) 'A good book to dip in and out of if you have a fear of failure or have confidence issues .a fluent, readable style . (Talk Business, August 2012) This book will resonate with anyone, from student to senior manager, who doubts their ability or worries that they are not capable or could achieve more with the opportunities that have been presented to them. (Nursing Times, February 2016)
Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix
Foreword by Luke Johnson xiii
Introduction 1
Part One - What is Stopping You? 9
1 Fear 11
2 External Responses 28
3 Failure as a Positive Experience 43
4 Producing Better Responses 54
Part Two - Goals 61
5 Act 63
6 Visualization 72
7 Language and Behaviour 87
8 Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs 98
Part Three - Execution 107
9 Strategy and Tactics 109
10 Judgement and Ideas 123
11 Managing the Process 132
What’s Stopping You?
Part Four - People 149
12 Self-esteem 151
13 Dealing with the Boss 163
14 Progress as an Employee 172
15 Networking and Interviews 181
16 Leadership 194
Part Five - Me Inc. 209
17 The High-FF Entrepreneur 211
18 Alternative Paths for the High-FF 220
Conclusion - The Point of Recovery 233
Seven Steps to Navigating Fear of Failure 241
Bibliography 247
About Robert Kelsey 253
Index 255
