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 enlarge | Author: James M. Citrin
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 167431
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 159486358X
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781594863585
ASIN: 159486358X
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
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 The book I have read all year! December 24, 2007
Love this book. I started reading this book and I slowly started taking notes then I started to type up the notes then I cut them out and pasted them to my monitor. Great book can't go wrong with this one.
Jim Citrin has done it again! December 12, 2007
Jim is an absolute champion when it comes to pattern recognition. From his analysis of extraordianry careers, leaders taking charge, and lessons from the top, he recognizes the steps that champions in all walks of life take in achieving greatness. If you aspire to be a champion, take the first step and get this book...it's awesome!
 Many May Well Be Disappointed November 21, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very, very helpful. Before explaining how so, I want to caution potential purchasers.
Much of this book is chock full of snippets about well known athletes. Although the successful from other fields get some coverage, the authors' love for athletics rings strong. I bought the book based on the cover touting it as a book on great leaders...and quickly became discouraged with the plethora of snippets on athletic success, most of them not even involving team sports (where is the leadership in non-team competition?).
As I read on, I also became troubled that the author's examples are very, very heavily male dominated, not surprising in view of his love for non-team competitive sports, but very surprising in view of the author being a super star recruiter in the business world where female power (and success) has become very, very evident.
The good news is that the book ends very strong. Chapter 8 on "Finding a Calling" is alone worth the purchase price. (Readers who want to learn more on this subject will enjoy Brad Swift's excellent book on living a "Life on Purpose.") Astute readers will likely correlate that the failure to find a calling explains the many second life failures that the author serves up (but does not explicitly connect the dots).
Personally I found this book to be very, very helpful, notwithstanding the aforementioned shortcomings. I am currently finishing extensive research on personal peak performance in preparation for the upcoming taping of my Peak Performance program. I found the author to be very thoughtful on the subject and to have done a good job researching some of the work that is out there on the subject. I got great value by testing my own hypothesis against his theories of personal peak performance. We are not totally in synch but the mere exercise of comparison has greatly enriched my own thinking. And for that, I am grateful to an author whose personal transformation appears to be a work in process (as it is for all of us). I am looking forward to this prolific author's upcoming writings as I fully expect that he will write an even better book as he continues to discover the incredible power of passionate purpose and its impact on champions, male and female, in all fields of endeavor.
A good read - excellent interviews and thoughtful story October 16, 2007
9 out of 23 found this review helpful
There are two reasons to read this book.
The first is to learn more about a wide array of people from contemporary interviews. This stories and quotes themselves make for good conversation starters, stories for a toast, etc.. The list of people Citrin met with is truly amazing and the fact that most of the people were interviewed for this project is great. You aren't reading an interpretation of a 40 year old quote but a fresh comment or story from people across generations, areas of expertise and perspectives.
The second is to have a thoughtful, reflective view of what you are hoping to accomplish with your life. Whether you are thinking about switching jobs, applying to school, drafting your first novel or just need a jolt to get you unstuck, Citrin's path can be helpful. Like similar books (e.g., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), The Dynamic Path is not a get rich quick scheme or a become powerful overnight checklist, but it is a thoughtful commentary about living a life that matters. I enjoyed the overall structure of the book and the notion that each step on the "path" built on the prior step.
A good long plane ride book when you can think about the stories and the synthesis the author draws away from the distractions of email and cell phones!
Wrestling with a profound question October 13, 2007
7 out of 23 found this review helpful
Just finished this book. Its really good- surprised by the fact that I was a bit moved at the end. There's a profound question that the book is wrestling with- to help people make a life that matters. It is a longing that everyone has, and I think this theme will be a powerful message as the world is introduced to its concepts.
Glad to have read it.
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