Full Throttle
122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work
By: Gregg M. Steinberg, PhD
Published: June 2009
Format: Hardcover, 258pp
ISBN-13: 9780470452424
ISBN-10: 0470452420
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
"Mastering our emotions is the X-factor to success", writes personal development expert and corporate speaker on personal success Gregg Steinberg, in his insightful and empowering book Full Throttle: 122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work. The author describes the critical importance of mastering your emotions to become the master of your own world.
Gregg Steinberg recognizes the critical importance of controlling one's emotions as the key to success in all areas of a person's life. Through his study of high performance athletes, Gregg Steinberg discovered that winning athletes were able to keep their emotions in check, while athletes who failed to achieve the elite level were less able to control their emotions. That ability to master emotions was a trait that was shared by top level executives, successful managers, and other productive employees at every level of the organization. By understanding that emotional strength can be practiced and developed, Gregg Steinberg presents a revolutionary new system for controlling emotions to achieve elite level success in every aspect of life.
Gregg Steinberg (photo left) moves beyond the well known concept of emotional intelligence, and describes a six part integrated system for strengthening emotional awareness. The six emotional strengths are:
* Emotional awareness
* Emotional preparedness
* Emotional bravado
* Emotional connectedness
* Emotional drive
* Emotional balance
The book is divided into sections that address each of these emotional strengths separately. Even though these six strengths are intertwined, they are also independent of one another, requiring separate development techniques. Since each emotional strength varies with every person, the reader can turn to whichever strength needs to be addressed at any one time. Taken together, the six emotional strengths form a road map for living a happier, and a more satisfying and successful life.
For me, the power of the book is how Gregg Steinberg presents the importance and value of understanding and developing the six emotional strengths to become a high performance individual. The author's emphasis on controlling and mastering one's emotions is illustrated by examples of world class athletes who maintained their emotional composure in elite level sporting events. The book not only is packed with case studies of high performance athletes, but provides the blueprint for developing and enhancing those crucial emotional strengths for anyone. The book is very interactive as the final chapter of the book contains a personal analysis tool called The Emotional Strength Assessment Tool ESAT. Each chapter concludes with special tips and activities for furthering the emotional strength development process. Overall, the author shares a very usable and results oriented system that anyone can use to boost their own individual performance through emotional control.
I highly recommend the groundbreaking and highly practical book Full Throttle: 122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work by Gregg Steinberg, to anyone seeking a proven and effective system for mastering their own emotions. The author makes it clear to the reader that a failure to master emotions can stall or even derail an otherwise promising career. The stakes are simply too high to let a failure to control your emotions stand in the way of your personal or career success.
Read the essential guide to emotional mastery Full Throttle: 122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work by Gregg Steinberg, and apply the same techniques for emotional control used by elite athletes and top performing business executives. The system, and its 122 strategies outlined in this book, will develop and improve your emotional strengths, setting you on the path to high level achievement.
