Insights for the Journey: Navigating to Thrive, Enjoy, and Prosper in Senior Management

by John Lucht

Book Overview

Delivers the truth about existing, surviving, moving up, achieving leadership, delivering results, reaping rewards ... ultimately finding self-perspective and satisfaction in the world of Senior... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942785312
• ISBN13: 9780942785319
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Viceroy Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Knocked My Socks Off!

Note for John Lucht:Good morning, John, and I must say that this first insight hit me like a ton of bricks! For most of my career, I have been identified as a high potential person, the ideal change agent, the first one to take a development assignment, the first one to start a new division, etc. While that very often has brought me success, tho at a high cost and high risk, when I have taken a fall, it was for exactly the reason you cited, and by that point, curiously lacking in the support of the very senior fellow who had spent months coaching me to stir the pot. In fact in those unsuccessful cases, the senior guy was asking me to do the things he had been unsuccessful in doing or had simply been afraid to do. I so appreciate your insight as I continue to pursue my current job search targets. With best regards, Barb Chilson in Ossining.

Great book

Overall, I found the book fascinating. I could not put it down. It is small, and I finished quickly, but then I went back to read it again. So many of these lessons are easily missed in the day to day activity of our lives.I just don't know how John takes the maelstrom of human activities and pulls out, succinctly and clearly, the most poignant lessons. In this book John has done it for life's lessons beyond just the recruiting aspect (which was the previous book he wrote, focusing in on the most important aspects of managing recruiters!). Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. This is a must read.

Good things come in small packages!

"Good things come in small packages." I don't know who first said that, but it certainly applies to this book. This is wonderful little essay that should be read by anyone managing people. It's messages are clear, unambiguous, and can be put into practice immediately. A few notions may be counter intuitive - especially if you've been hired as a `change agent' to fix a broken business. But most of what's contained in the book is `comfort food' for the soul. The book makes a terrific gift or `leave behind' if you deal with senior management. It's the kind of book you'll read more than once.

Powerful Wisdom contained in small package

Here are three decades of wisdom, compiled into 100 pages. I couldn't believe it when I came across this little gem when purchasing another copy of Lucht's "Rites of Passage."At first glance, I thought this was a spin-off of "Rites of Passage." But the more I read, the clearer it became that this isn't just another 'job-changing' book ... this is a 'life changing' book! After all, who wouldn't want to 'thrive, enjoy, and prosper' in his/her profession?Not only have I already given copies of "Insights for the Journey" to all our senior executives, but we'll be giving copies to all the participants in our upcoming Leadership Seminar as well. I highly recommend this little book of great wisdom!

A Book for All Times

I found this enticing book to be a fun and easy read. But just to read the book is to miss its true value--much as to drink wine without savoring the flavor and bouquet is to miss the pleasure of the endeavor. No, the true value of John Lucht's book will not come in it's first read or even second, but in a lifetime of revisiting the passages of Insights to discover yet one more hidden truth or clever approach to solving a challenge in business...or in life. And that's why you'll find my copy of Insights right next to Harvey Penick's "Little Red Book" on my executive desk. Where Harvey speaks to the game of golf and John speaks to the game of business, both are talking of the game of life...from decades of playing at real life themselves. I heartily recommend Insights for the Journey as a worthwhile lifetime investment.