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Must read for business and life development

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020

This book takes you on a journey to gain humility, purpose and direction in a non-text book way of writing.

After quickly reading it I have already found myself putting into play the teachings. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t walk away from this book 2x the person I am or don’t struggle with the same b.s. as before but I know have a little bit more of a light to follow.

Excited to buy other books from this author who has a novelesque way of engaging the reader, one could argue its too good because at night when I read it never puts me to sleep so I have to drop it for a boring book when it’s passed my adult bed time!

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Alexander Montgomery

A very meh read.

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021

This book outright is a very simple, very boring read. The chapters are without transition, and are very choppy. There was so much cruft around each bit of knowledge that the first 100 pages could easily be consolidated into 10 without issue. Good intentioned, but a very arduous read.

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Roy Ham Roy

Like a scene from a Christmas Carol.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015

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The book was a quick read, so the learning and take aways were easy to grasp. The "fable" format seemed forced and borrowed. The fable concept in the novel reminded me of Scrooge, as he was wisked away by ghosts in the great Dickens classic. Several people have connected strongly with the book,I'm simply not one of them. I wonder if Sharma has cashed in on making LTW necklaces? My Christmas stocking is full. I'll pass.

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Sylvain Roy

A disappointing monk

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2012

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This was a suggestion for me from Amazon. The title was inspiring, and I had read "The monk who sold his Ferrari" from the same author a while ago, liked it, so I thought this one should be fun reading.

Although the main argument (that you don't need a title to exercise leadership in your professional environment) is well founded, and calls for everyone of us on this planet to do its best in his life so that we end up collectively in a better place, there is one thing that kept creeping into my mind : every business manager or leader would probably want that all their employees to read this book, so that no matter how well (or not) they are paid, no matter what are their job conditions, they will provide their maximum output. I found that a bit disturbing because it is true that being happy in the job you do is probably a lot directly related to oneself's attitude. But on the other hand, it is the owners, the shareholders and to a lesser degree one's managers who will reap the economic rewards of one's good job.

So there's a couple of good learning here and there, and I finished the book with little enthusiasm. If you're really looking into that kind of reflections, I suggest you turn yourself to Covey and his classical 7 habits of highly effective people.

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mrswolf

i gave up on this book, double thumbs down on the storyline

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2017

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The narrative made this book really cheesy and boring instead of making it interesting to read. I've finished other longer inspirational books faster than I could finish this one. The message of the book is great, I hope it wasn't written in that annoying story line.

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Orlando Irsula

Living in a dream world

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2015

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This book was recommended to me by a friend that works in the corporate world. I was in the "corporate" for many years as well but now work for myself. I can see how books of this nature would be a favorite of a CEO of a big corporate enterprise. If I could just convince my staff to be the best that they can be and still be humble enough to continue doing their "excellent" work day in and day out for years WITHOUT expecting or demanding promotions and other perks.... I would be the king of the world. But I must live in a different world where employees expect to be rewarded for their work and promoted when deserved (and sometimes even before that happens). The author uses a fictitious character to portray this humble guy that puts 110% without expecting anything. I wish so much to find people like that to work for me. Where are they? Maybe by having all my employees read this book they will become selfless and all-giving so that I can be more profitable and will never have to worry about promotions and titles. What a beautiful world that would be.

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RyanNguyen

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2016

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Kinda too forced scenario to start the story.

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Richard Mattson

A let down after MONK

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2010

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I was told about "The Monk who Sold his Ferrari" bought it and devoured it. Read it multiple times. Loved it. I was so excited when a new book came out by Sharma, and raced to buy it. I was really looking forward to it but unfortunately was sadly disappointed. The characters were shallow and unbelievable. I couldn't buy in to the story and the message seemed trite. It felt like the author was trying to duplicate his success with "Monk" but failed. Like a movie sequel that didn't quite have the magic of the original.

Still love "Monk" and am reading it again to revive my respect for Sharma.

Sorry. I wanted to like it.

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K. Marshall

Author could have found real examples

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2012

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Love the concept of the book and definitely have met people like the characters in the book. Given that, I think that with a little bit of real effort the author could have found real life examples of the people in his book rather than writing a fictional and rather 'too good to be true' story to make his point.

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Magairan

I love Robin Sharma books.

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

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I'm still trying to make my way thru this book, seems a lot of it is repetitive. I have read Robin Sharma books before and this one just doesn't cut it for me, but I will get to the END one day.

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Avid Reader

Inspiration for the simple-minded

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2014

He lost me with the Ayn Rand quote at the start of Chapter 1. This book is one useless, pompous pronouncement after another --- and I had to go through it because my boss bought me a copy as a holiday gift.

After reading the ridiculous set-up in the first few pages of a fictional guy who's going to teach you how to be a success in business and in life, I read just far enough to make sure that it wasn't a parody. I thought the author might be smart enough to parody various management and leadership books. That is, to open with junk about how we all have genius within us, but we settle for mediocrity, and that the "secret" to reaching your potential can be found in just a few easy steps. Then I thought the book might say something like, "Of course, it's not that easy." And it would then pivot to something useful. Alas, it didn't happen.

I should add that it's not that the pronouncements in the book are wrong. The problem is that actually living by them is a thousand times harder than thinking them up. Anyone who hasn't thought of the things in this book already -- i.e., that a leader creates a team that works together rather than worships some allegedly all-knowing leader -- doesn't have the skills to be a leader. Everyone else already has those skills.

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John Malkovich

Wow this book is bad

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2014

Wow this book is bad!

Where do I begin. Despite covering the inspiring idea of leading without a title, this book is mostly somewhere between terrible and unbearable. Thankfully I got the audio version and this way was able to go through it with minimum effort - I just did not hit Power off on my CD player in my car as I drove. I did turn it off at times though to take a break. Also thankfully I rented it from the library (for $2!) and did not pay full price, otherwise would have felt ripped off for sure!

Anyway, I give it half a star for its entertainment value. I mean the book is so bad, I was laughing out loud at the trivial comparisons, stereotypical characters and terrible portrayals - a la 50 Shades of Gray minus the erotica. Just poor, simplistic quality of writing. Another half star for some good quotes and some inspiring snipets that are actually potentially helpful. Otherwise, the book is full of utterly unintelligent dialogue, invented accronyms and buzzwords for tried and true plain old self improvement concepts.

Overall assessment: terrible. A handful of good ideas peppered in and overall some good concepts if you're looking for some propaganda talk and to pep rally the weak. It does the job there, but the bulk of it is just painful.

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