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Forget everything you thought you knew about being your best. Its not about your own skills or talents. Instead, real success in work and life comes from your connections and relationships the teams you build around you, the friends you make and getting the best out of them. You hugely amplify yourownpotential by helping others around you to realisetheirs.

A TED talk star with over 16 million views, Shawn Achor is one of the worlds leading experts on happiness and personal success and author of the positive psychology classicThe Happiness Advantage.Now, in this game-changing guide to greatness, he demolishes the myth of single individual achievement. With powerful stories, cutting-edge research and exclusive insights from Fortune 100 leaders, he shows how only by working with others will you ever reach yourBig Potential.

Winner of CMI Management Book of the Year 2019New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerEverything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Never put a foot wrong. In fact, people who have become CEOs have on average had five to seven career setbacks on their way to the top.Drawing on the biggest dataset of CEOs in the world -- in-depth analysis of 2,600 leaders, drawn from a database of 17,000 CEOs, as well as 13,000 hours of interviews -- The CEO Next Door is crammed full of myth-busting and counter-intuitive insights in what it really takes to get ahead. Discover the way actual CEOs of top companies think and behave, and the kind of traits to develop if you want to make your ambitions a reality and take your career right to the top.