The Last Word on Power

by Tracy Goss

Book Overview

How leaders can achieve something meaningful--transform a brand, a workplace, a technology, themselves--beyond holding an influential position. Do you want to do work that is worthy of your time and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038547492X
• ISBN13: 9780385474924
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A must read book for successful managers and executives

There are many success 101 books available today. This is not one of them. This book is written for people who have been successful and find themselves stuck at a plateau arising out of the very strategy that made them successful. The Last Word on Power is the critical next step, which invite its readers to leave the restraining safety of what has worked in order to do what has up until now been impossible.For managers and executives living in a world where simply making attainable continuous improvements is not enough, "The Last Word on Power" is a must read. Written in powerful thought-provoking language, readers will find this book impossible to put down until finished and unforgettable thereafter.I highly recommend it.Joe Santana,Coauthor Manage I.T.

Good Enough to Recommend to Clients!

Tracy Goss departs from the tired worlds of either the boring or sophmorically enthusiastic management books and gives us a book good enough to recommend to our own clients. One of my clients, a highly intelligent executive and a voracious business book reader, said "Whoa! You didn't tell me I would actually have to think to read this!" Tracy takes management consulting to unprecedented heights and gives those of us who pay sharp attention to the human factor as it relates to business success a book worthy of our profession.

This book is the BEST

This book, and Steve Chandler's "17 Lies", would be the only two books you would ever need in your life if you wanted to learn how to be both POWERFUL and very, very happy. Tracy Goss succeeds in doing what no one thought could be done.....she has taken the MOST useful and exciting teaching from the Landmark Forum and made it accessible to everyone in this fine, fine, book. Werner Erhard should be very proud of this. Her book shows you EXACTLY how to reinvent yourself, anywhere, any time, no matter what your past history was. She shows you how to gracefully step outside of all past influences on your current life and reinvent yourself anew ANY WAY YOU WANT TO BE. Most self-help books cheer you on, but don't tell you exactly what to do. Tracy Goss does it all. Read carefully, read slowly, read as if you had a life-threatening disease and THIS was the cure.

POWERFUL, CHALLENGING, EXCITING

I have never done an LGAT like est or Landmark Forum, though I have read some of their concepts and found them interesting. There was too much other, negative material to entice me into those programs. This book, however, puts forth what I understand to be the core teachings of those organizations, and I have found them powerful, challenging, exciting beyond belief. I disagree with the reviewer who thinks that you have to have had est training or the like to understand this book. It is written clearly, Ms. Goss defines all her jargon concisely, and she gets right to the heart of the matter of transformation (as opposed to change - a great distinction.) It is the best "self-help" book I have ever read and I highly recommend it far beyond the boundaries of business re-invention. As an artist, I found her concepts liberating, and as a person I truly do feel that I am in the process of transforming myself. And on top of all that, it coasts less than a tenth of the Landmark Forum Weekend seminar! My only complaint is that the book doesn't list discussion groups based around the information contained inside. Perhaps I'll have to go to an est or Forum site to have conversations about it...but I can't say enough about it.

Willing to change?

Powerful & provacative, but requires a seat belt. If you don't believe you need this book, then don't try it. If you are seeking excellence, realize there might be a better way, or have just stalled, this book is for you. Redundant at times, the point is well taken. Your success to date will hinder your future growth. Sounds absurd, but in retrospect all too true. A great book for executives who think they have made it.