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Summary: Great Motivational Audio Book
Review: A great little book that is a sort of "pick me up." I borrowed the book from the library on audio CD. It is a short little book, so even an unabridged audio was not very long. The Go Getter is a fanciful parable about the payoff of being a hard worker and being determined to get things done. The story is simple, direct, and motivational. It raises the listener's spirits without preaching. It was great fun and appropriate for any audience. The reader spoke clearly and with a feeling appropriate to the material. It was very comfortable listening.
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Summary: Great Motivational Audio Book
Review: A great little book that is a sort of "pick me up." I borrowed the book from the library on audio CD. It is a short little book, so even an unabridged audio was not very long. The Go Getter is a fanciful parable about the payoff of being a hard worker and being determined to get things done. The story is simple, direct, and motivational. It raises the listener's spirits without preaching. It was great fun and appropriate for any audience. The reader spoke clearly and with a feeling appropriate to the material. It was very comfortable listening.
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Summary: a must for every personal library
Review: ever failed to complete a task or project? did you have a good excuse? i am sure that you did... first, for yourself. then for others. when you are ready to stop making excuses and start achieving results, buy this book. if i could only have ten books on my bookcase, this would be one of them!
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Summary: I used this book in Organizational Managment class.
Review: I am an adjunct instructor in a business college of a university in the midwest. My students were given this book as an option for a required or an extra credit review. Of the 84 students, 80% purchased, read, and reviewed it. Most found it very exciting and a book they will keep to use over and over again. I have owned the book for years and reread it many times. It is great to know that 20 year-olds can gain from reading such a timeless story.
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Summary: Great selection for anyone who needs a "jump start" in life.
Review: I give this book a '10' because it is short, in a story format, and has surpassed the test of time. Many "motivational" books are long; too long for someone who is busy and needs information to the point. I read this book in an hour and really felt like I was involved with the main character.
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Summary: Great selection for anyone who needs a "jump start" in life.
Review: I give this book a '10' because it is short, in a story format, and has surpassed the test of time. Many "motivational" books are long; too long for someone who is busy and needs information to the point. I read this book in an hour and really felt like I was involved with the main character.
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Summary: A great motivational book
Review: If you've read anything by Spencer Johnson or Ken Blanchard and enjoyed their work, you need to read this precursor to the latest rage. This is far superior even if it is a bit dated.Do you have the blue vase in your life? Are you in the "get it done" club? Fun, interesting and with enough twists and turns that you will enjoy the quick hour you will spend reading this book. You'll want to let all your colleagues and friends read this (but not your competitors).
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Summary: A great motivational book
Review: If you've read anything by Spencer Johnson or Ken Blanchard and enjoyed their work, you need to read this precursor to the latest rage. This is far superior even if it is a bit dated. Do you have the blue vase in your life? Are you in the "get it done" club? Fun, interesting and with enough twists and turns that you will enjoy the quick hour you will spend reading this book. You'll want to let all your colleagues and friends read this (but not your competitors).
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Summary: This pamphlet is of historical interest only
Review: In this offensive little post-World War I parable, first published in 1921, an honorable one-armed war veteran of great capability is "put to the test" by a querulous and incompetent lumber company sales management team. Hired on by the crotchety Owner over the objections of his team, the war veteran is eventually given a trivial and unnecessary sham personal task by this Grand Old Man of the company. He handles it with the loyal determination you might expect of a good soldier in wartime, unaware that the task he has been given is the moral equivalent of a "join the club" fraternity hazing ceremony. Of course, the former dispatcher of German snipers succeeds (although only because he is able at the last minute to pawn a diamond-studded ring he kept as a souvenir of war, having removed it from the severed finger of one of the dead snipers), and is rewarded with the plum job, a demanding and highly paid posting to the Far East, presumably so highly paid because he will be selling off America's old growth forest treasure to the high-bidding Asians. The ideals set forth in The Go-Getter set aside all the progress and insights in business management in the last 50 years. Everyone's a critic, I know, but I'm nonetheless sure that both of my grandfathers, successful and modest businessmen of that era, would have been quite saddened to read of the unreasonable and inhuman behaviour depicted in this repulsive little short story.
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Summary: it's not what you've got, it's what you *do* with it!
Review: It took me a few times to read the first chapter--I kept saying "huh?" (a weird opening) then finally got into it. Some of the best books start this way! DON'T QUIT IN DISGRACE ACE, FACE THE VASE! Greg "failing forward on my way to success" Rebuck
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