Make Your Own Luck: Success Tactics You'll Never Learn in B-School

by Peter Morgan Kash, Tom Monte

The missing link that business schools don’t teach Without the benefit of an Ivy League education, independent wealth, or powerful connections, Peter Kash achieved outstanding success by recognizing what most businesspeople today do not that success is based on trust and human interaction. With more than 100 examples and anecdotes from his own experience and the experiences of highly successful individuals including Richard Branson and Arnold Schwartzenegger, Kash shows readers how to use this knowledge to recognize opportunities that others have missed and derive maximum value from them. This inspiring book also offers a list of the twenty keys to success, as well as a description and analysis of a business deal from the moment the opportunity presents itself to its successful closing. Helping new graduates and business people at any stage of their careers identify and adopt the behaviors that lead to success, Make Your Own Luck teaches the overlooked lessons essential to business prosperity.

Genres: Business

231 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2002

Reviews

[Marcela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book and perfect title for it. These were some of the things that resonated with me:

-Your commitment will be challenged...
-The difference between a successful person and an unsuccessful person is not failure...it is how they respond to difficult times.
-Learn to deal with rejection by:
experiencing a lot of rejection
learn,grow and evolve from it. By evolve I mean you must improve your ideas, presentation...

But the one thing that stood out above all was when Kash wrote, "I will never be able to give back to my mother what she gave to me. Therefore, I live in a perpetual state of gratitude."

He is right, what you learn from reading this book is not taught in B-school.

[Amir Baer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book - very easy to read and contains some interesting and inspirational, yet very simplistic, ideas.

[Anne Kristin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very, very good read!! Practical advice showing us how embracing & incorporating the human aspects of business will help us achieve greater personal satisfaction & success!! ::-))

[Gilad Levin · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best business books I ever read. I read it several times during the years and everytime I do I learn something new. Highly recommended!