The Seven Summits of Success [Paperback]

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When Rebecca Stephens first formed her goal of climbing Everest she was a young journalist with hardly any climbing experience, but with a strong vision and limitless determination to achieve her dream. It was a highly ambitious goal for such an inexperienced climber. Yet only four years on, she became the first British woman to climb the highest mountain in the world. That achievement led directly to her second great ambition: to be the first British woman to climb the Seven Summits, the tallest peak on each of the world′s seven continents.
In this inspiring book, Rebecca Stephens and management guru Robert Heller join forces to explore the mental skills, practical abilities and psychological powers that enabled her to achieve her dream. Whatever your personal ambition may be, the lessons of this unique book will lead you to identify, master and scale your own individual heights.

No less than climbers, everyone has their own Everest to climb and supreme tests to pass on their way to the top – if they truly want to get there. Rebecca’s experiences taught her the lessons of high achievement in the toughest of physical environments. Robert Heller recounts and analyses similar experiences and explores the application of identical skills within the mentally tough environment of the business world. Through the analogies of the climbs, the authors show how to achieve your own dream by learning how to:
1. Seize the moment of opportunity
2. Develop indispensable skills.
3. Master creative teamwork
4. Become an expert in true leadership.
5. Work with the best available talent.
6. Compete with one over–riding aim – to win.
7. Keep right on to the end of the road.

Undertaking the Seven Summits of Success is about harnessing the desire, the abilities and the courage required to pursue your own chosen path and to climb your own Everest.

When Rebecca Stephens first formed her goal of climbing Everest she was a young journalist with hardly any climbing experience, but with a strong vision and limitless determination to achieve her dream. It was a highly ambitious goal for such an inexperienced climber. Yet only four years on, she became the first British woman to climb the highest mountain in the world. That achievement led directly to her second great ambition: to be the first British woman to climb the Seven Summits, the tallest peak on each of the world’s seven  continents.

In this inspiring book, Rebecca Stephens and management guru Robert Heller join forces to explore the mental skills, practical abilities and psychological powers that enabled her to achieve her dream. Whatever your personal ambition may be, the lessons of this unique book will lead you to identify, master and scale your own individual heights.  

Rebecca Stephens is the first British woman to have climbed Everest and the first to climb the so–called Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each continent. She has appeared as a regular presenter on Tomorrow’s World and in a science series for BBC TV’s Learning Zone. Rebecca is the author of On Top Of The World, an account of her climbing of Everest. She is now a leading writer, public speaker and consultant to many multi–national corporations and business schools.

Robert Heller is the best–selling author of over fifty business and management books, including The Naked Manager, the Essential Manager series and The Fusion Manager. He collaborated with rugby star Will Carling on the best–selling The Way To Win. A former journalist for the Financial Times and The Observer, he moved into magazine publishing and, among several major successes, was founding editor of Management Today, Britain’s leading monthly business magazine. He has worked as speaker and consultant with many of the world’s top businesses and co–writes the monthly Letter to Thinking Managers with Edward de Bono.