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Praise for The Power of an Hour

"The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly–for you, for your team, and for your children."
–Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals

"If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand–alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast."
–David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing

"Dave′s methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you′re a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don′t walk, and get this book!"
–Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire

"The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!"
–Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer

"The disease of the twenty–first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure–you′ll be surprised how much better you feel!"
–David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187087 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-06
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Audio CD

From the Inside Flap
Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. Sometimes we succeed, but often we fail because we simply fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?

The Power of an Hour gives you the blueprint for making changes one at a time that add up to a big difference. Most books that promise to help you improve yourself and your business are too formulaic and too focused on one particular aspect of life to really work. But this book is different. It′s a holistic guide to the practical, everyday actions you can use to supercharge your personal and business development.

The demands of business, especially for executives and entrepreneurs, leave little time for thinking about yourself. But great businesses are built on great leaders, and changing your business for the better often means changing yourself first. The Power of an Hour identifies specific core areas of personal, professional, and business improvement, then guides you through a step–by–step process that keeps you focused so you can reinvent your life and business. The results are fast and predictable.

Designed by a successful entrepreneur to work specifically within the busy executive′s or business owner′s schedule, this insightful, enlightening guide is broken down into two groups of lessons—those hours dedicated to personal issues and those dedicated to business issues. All these one–hour blocks go hand in hand to create a better business and a better you. But you can also use them as individual lessons on topics you need to know more about. You′ll learn about managing your time, improving your personal relationships for the good of yourself and your business, dealing with customers, managing employees, and creating and following a vision of your future success.

The world′s top athletes all have coaches who help them focus on specific areas of their game to create consistent and ongoing improvement. This book helps you focus on those issues that have the greatest impact on your success in life and business. In just a few short months, you′ll develop the traits that make great business leaders and great businesses. Written to improve your life without disrupting it, The Power of an Hour isn′t a personal development book for everyone—it′s just for you.

From the Back Cover
Praise for The Power of an Hour

"The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly—for you, for your team, and for your children."
—Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals

"If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand–alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast."
—David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing

"Dave′s methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you′re a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don′t walk, and get this book!"
—Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire

"The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!"
—Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer

"The disease of the twenty–first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure—you′ll be surprised how much better you feel!"
—David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand

About the Author
Dave Lakhani is an in–demand speaker, trainer, and the President of Bold Approach, Inc., a business acceleration firm consultancy. Bold Approach has been nominated twice as one of Fast Company magazine′s Fast 50 Companies. A successful entrepreneur, he is a popular speaker on the topics of persuasion, influence, sales, marketing, ideation, and business acceleration. He is also the author of Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want, from Wiley. Visit him online at www.powerofanhour.com.

Customer Reviews

A book to stand the test of time!!!
An Hour! Just one short HOUR! What can the Author Dave Lakhani teach me to do in one hour?

Dave teaches you that your whole life, you very being and your futures can all be determined within how you spend a single hour. When was the last time you sat down, emptied you head of daily rubbish and focus on a task for the solid hour? No interruptions, no requests for coffee, no can you do this for me? I read the book and was astounded about just how much time I give up to help others who should know how to help themselves and all at the determent of my own success.

FEARSOME FOCUS: Remember this term as this book will coin the term and i can be sure that other books, companies and tv programs will start to use the phrase. It's an awesome book and my hat goes off to Dave and the work he has produced. Superb!

Gary May
Author: SELLING: Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success
www.garymay.co.uk

Step-by-step instructions for real change
Dave Lakhani's latest effort may just be the feel-good business book of the year. Not enough time in the day? Too many distractions competing for your attention? Not sure what to attack first? Take heart: All you need is one solid distraction-free hour and Lakhani's instruction manual (which won't take much more than an hour to digest), and you're on your way to achieving a Zen-like state of what he calls "Fearsome Focus" that will blast your troubles away. Few of his instructions are revolutionary, but Lakhani's energy and enthusiasm propel his common-sense message to new heights of can-do optimism. The bulk of the book is composed of 18 chapters that focus on specific hour-long business or personal tasks, but these chapters simply extrapolate the essential idea of learning the skill of focus described in the first 35 pages. Once you've mastered focusing, you can choose from the chapters' tasks or make up your own. We prescribe this book as a cheerful pep talk for anyone who is pressed for time or struggling with an overwhelming to-do list.

Over Complicated and Hard to Read
Although the title would imply that this book will give you an easy system for organising your life and business, the oposite is true. This book outlines a multi layered, multi staged over complicated system which in my view would take all week to put into practice let alone one hour. If you are highly organised to the point of obsession you may like this book but don't expect to do it in one hour a week.