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Ballsy: 99 Ways to Grow a Bigger Pair and Score Extreme Business Success By Karen Salmansohn ( How )
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Product Description
This is not your father's business book. Full of dynamic advice, heavy on sass and sharply designed, "Ballsy" offers readers 100 brash tips and tactics to immediately take control of their careers. This guide: offers in your face advice (you're nobody until someone hates you) and honest tips (persistence is a boring but necessary virtue) for readers tired of the usual motivational treacle; provides easy-to-digest information in a stunning package, making it stand out from the other books in the business section; and features the unique voice of popular writer Karen Salmansohn. Visually stunning and with a unique approach, "Ballsy" will appeal to any 20- and 30-something working today.
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This book is a nice collection of tips on how to be successful. The title is obviously meant to shock, especially as it is written by a woman. The content, however, is not so shocking. It is tried and true advice that can help you improve.
If you enjoy short, inspirational, colorful quotes and bold illustrations, this book is for you.
Some favorites of this reviewer include:
Even a schmuck can teach you things
Often it's easier to be good for 15 minutes than be a saint for a full day
Your success will only be as long as your determination
The Haagen-dazs theory on productivity.
Nick McCormick, Author, Lead Well and Prosper: 15 Successful Strategies for Becoming a Good Manager
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 Great read/reminder ( agentsme )
This book is a fun read and reminder of a lot of things you may already know, as well as new info. you can use to get your career in high gear. The creative layout also makes it a great gift book. I enjoyed it very much.
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Thank you for writing BALLSY - I need these reminders often... ( dozi_com )
Karen Salmansohn's books are written for me - I have a lot of information and tools to be successful, and much reading - BALLSY like KS's book GUT - think from the middle to get to the top - are perfect for me to reference or re-read to focus me for my next moves each day - being an entrepreneur, the quick and witty information brings my awareness to cut through what is important and 'big rock' items to grow my success. I have had the opportunity to see Karen's Extreme Success Seminars at the SOHO House in NYC, and this ads another level of the brilliance to be in action and go through the fear - THANK YOU - how amazing someone can have written 29 books, I look forward to each one!!!!!Ballsy: 99 Ways to Grow a Bigger Pair and Score Extreme Business Success
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 Mildly Amusing ( happyfresh )
I loved this book for its aesthetics; it is beautifully over-designed and I spent a good while admiring its visuals. But after the initial attraction wore off, the book and the author didn't have much to offer. This is just a collection of trite motivational maxims without any practical information. Beautifully presented, mildly amusing but ultimately useless.
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Missed Potential...Disappointed ( clouvi1 )
I wish I could give this 2.5 stars. I'd read a bit about the author and was intrigued by her style. This is the first book of her's I've read. I have no doubt that she is quite talented, but this book is only half finished. I read the whole thing in 45 minutes. Not because it was a page-turner, but because it was basically fluff with no ideas. She gave 'tips' and then offered no ideas or solutions. She just put a summary after each tip, but how hard is it to summarize a 1-2 line tip? I'm not quite sure that this is the fault of Ms. Salmansohn. I looked at other books by the same publisher. They were similar in that they were light information and heavy on distracting graphics.
I read the other reviews and may be in the minority as I don't think I'm the target audience. I bet Karen is a wonderful writer, but the book really left me aggarvated that I pad for it. I don't feel as though I received much from it.
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