Enhance your personal performance by applying the four practices of high achievers to help you find your passion, develop your network of peers and mentors, and discover new opportunities to learn.
WINNER: Book Excellence Awards 2024 - Leadership
WINNER: Independent Press Award 2022 - Business Motivational
FINALIST: Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2023 - Career
WINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Motivational
What do astronauts, Olympic champions, and Nobel laureates do differently that allows them to achieve at such a high level?
High achievers share the same four attributes: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means. The key to their success is that they do all four of these things at the same time. Based on research and in-person interviews with astronauts, Nobel Prize winners, and Olympic champions, The Success Factor outlines the approach that individuals aspiring to improve their performance can adopt.
Using these four shared attributes as a guide, The Success Factor helps you reach your peak by applying the lessons of high achievers in your own life: identify your passion using a Passion Audit; learn how and where to find a mentor and how to build a mentoring team; develop your own community of practice; pursue your interests through informal learning; manage your time and energy. The Success Factor comes with online resources that feature a downloadable Passion Audit worksheet, Mentoring Team worksheet, and Goal Audit worksheet. The book offers scripts for approaching potential mentors and a list of uncommon places to find a mentor, such as webinars, airports, and social media.
The Success Factor features exclusive interviews with high achievers, including such people as Dr. Tony Fauci NIH/NIAID Institute Director; Dr Mike Brown, Nobel prize winner; Dr Peggy Whitson, Former NASA Chief Astronaut; Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop; and Steve Kerr, eight time NBA Champion and head coach of the Golden State Warriors.
Features interviews with high achievers including Nobel laureates, astronauts and Olympic champions (including such people as Dr. Tony Fauci NIH (NIAID) Institute Director; Dr. Mike Brown, Nobel prize winner; Dr. Peggy Whitson, Former Chief Astronaut, NASA; Maxine Clark, founder and former CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop)
Outlines practices to help readers identify their passions, find mentors, develop a team of mentors, establish a community of practice and pursue informal learning
Online resources include a downloadable Passion audit, a goal audit worksheet and a mentoring team worksheet
Ruth Gotian
Ruth Gotian, based in New Rochelle, New York, is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, educator, and social scientist who researches the most successful people in order to learn about their mindsets and practices. She serves as the Chief Learning Officer and is Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, New York. She is the 2021 recipient of the Thinkers50 RADAR Award, making her the world's #1 emerging management thinker. Her work regularly appears in Forbes, Psychology Today, Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, and Harvard Business Review.
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"The Success Factor is truly a compelling must-read book for anyone who is looking to understand the blueprint for what makes a high achiever and successful leader."
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"As someone who advises and mentors many high-achieving graduate students, scientists and health professionals, I'm often struck by their inability to construct a roadmap for success. Building on case studies from diverse fields including sports, science, law and business, The Success Factor offers an important toolkit for that essential first step."
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"The Success Factor makes success attainable to anyone who wants it and is willing to work. Ruth Gotian has reverse-engineered the path to success, based on her research with extreme high achievers, and offers useful tools and strategies which will give you a giant leap forward on your own path to greatness."
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"By providing a comprehensive path to move anyone, in business or in life, toward their own perception of success, Ruth Gotian's work will undoubtedly have a profound impact on readers. With this recent work, Dr. Gotian answers that question posed to her on that first day at Teachers College, Columbia University 'In what area do you consider yourself a thought leader?'"
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"The Success Factor is a transforming book where you find the true stories of high achievers and the foundations of their success. Ruth invested years to find out what their secret is... and her research, perseverance and passion is raising the bar of excellence. Anyone can implement Ruth's ideas and tools and improve their success!"
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"Ruth Gotian sets the record straight on how to take control of your career and reach success. The Success Factor showcases insights and personal stories of high achievers from diverse fields to show-- in a highly personal way-- what works for different people. I gleaned something new from each different vignette. As an advisor and mentor to PhDs and MD-PhDs, I strongly suggest this book as a must-have for them."
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"The Success Factor provides a playbook for the strategic pursuit of excellence, elite performance and ultimately success. Using compelling stories, Dr. Gotian provides insights into the commonalities and traits for high achievers and emphasizes the role of mentoring in achieving success."
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"If you seek a guide to launch you on the path to true meaningful success, read this book. With keen analysis and compelling storytelling, Ruth Gotian unlocks the secrets of success and gives us actionable tools to achieve it."
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