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The Compound Effect [Hardcover]

Darren Hardy
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17 Nov 2011

No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. "The Compound Effect" is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of "Success Magazine," presents "The Compound Effect," a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of "The Compound Effect "to create the success you want.



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  • Hardcover: 172 pages
  • Publisher: CDS Books; Reprint edition (17 Nov 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593157134
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593157135
  • Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 2.3 x 19.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 302,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Darren Hardy has written a new 'bible' for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the 'real deal, ' a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality, "The Compound Effect" is it!"
--David Bach, financial expert and bestselling author of T"he Automatic Millionaire"
"Simple, direct, and to the point--these are the principles that have guided my life and every top business leader I know. This book will show you the way to your own greater success, happiness, and fulfillment."
--Donny Deutsch, TV host and chairman of Deutsch, Inc.
"Einstein said, 'Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world.' To compound your successes, read, apprehend, comprehend, and fully use my friend Darren Hardy's brilliance to realize all your dreams, hopes, and desires."
--Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series "Chicken Soup for the Soul"
"A treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible!"
--Brian Tracy, speaker and author of "Maximum Achievement"
""The Compound Effect" is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. "The Compound Effect "is a clear and concise success operation manual!"
--John C. Maxwell, speaker and bestselling author of "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership"
"Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. "The Compound Effect "shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life."
--Harvey Mackay, bestselling author of "Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive"
"The principles in this book are as practical as they are deceptively powerful. I'll be applying it to my fitness, my family, even my faith life."
--Patrick Lencioni, president of The Table Group and author of "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team"
"Darren Hardy has at --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

The chair once occupied by Orison Swett Marden, W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill, and Og Mandino is where "Success "publisher and editorial director Darren Hardy now sits. Darren has been a leader in the personal-development industry for sixteen years, having led two personal development-based television networks--The People's Network (TPN), and The Success Training Network (TSTN)--producing and launching more than a thousand TV shows, live events, and products and programs with many of the world's top experts.
Darren is a product of the principles he reveals in "The Compound Effect." As an entrepreneur, Darren was earning a six-figure income by age eighteen, more than a million dollars a year by age twenty-four, and he owned a company producing $50 million a year in revenue by age twenty-seven. He has mentored thousands of entrepreneurs, advised many large corporations, and serves on the board of several companies and nonprofit organizations.
As publisher and editorial director of "Success Magazine," Darren is in a unique position to interview leading experts on human performance and achievement, as well as many of today's top CEOs, revolutionary entrepreneurs, superstar athletes, entertainers, and Olympic champions, to uncover and share the secrets behind their extraordinary success.
Each month in the pages of "Success Magazine," on his blog (DarrenHardy.SUCCESS.com), on Twitter (@ DarrenHardy), on Facebook (DarrenHardyFan), and before live audiences of entrepreneurs across the country, Darren distills the best of the best information and strategies available, mixing in his own street-tested principles of success. Darren's passion for personal development is at the core of his business and life philosophy. He is committed to helping others achieve their potential in order to live richer, more fulfilling lives.
Darren is a popular keynote speaker and appears regularly on national radio and TV shows for CNBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX.
Darren lives in San Diego, California.


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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars a rehash 10 Sep 2011
By P. Smy
Format:Paperback
I found the book, ironically, to be a bit unfocused and scattered. It is also simply a rehash of the things we hear over and over again. After reading this book I read the original - Napoleon Hill's The Laws of Success, in its new revised edition - and found that that book was much more inspirational, motivational and practical. Despite it being over 75 years old!

This book is not horrid, it is just a bit pointless in the face of other more complete works.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Darcy
Format:Paperback
If you need a straight to the point guide on how to improve your life, then you cannot go wrong by starting with The Compound Effect. All the advice you will find in this book has been around for ages, therefore do not expect to learn anything new, yet credit to the writer who has managed to put together this material in an easy to follow manner.

You will learn to create positive habits, eliminate procrastination and set yourself challenging and achievable goals. We also bought the accompanying CD's, therefore, if you enjoy listening, opposed to reading, then you are in for a treat with the extra material and insights on offer.

It's also clear after reading the book and listening to the CD that the author walks his talk and more importantly, he sounds as though he is extremely passionate and sincere about sharing his teachings with the rest of us.
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By Robert Morris TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
I selected the Einstein quotation to serve as the title of this review because I became convinced long ago that people and the lives they live tend to be the result of the decisions they make. In casinos and in competitive athletics, for example, individuals can be "on a roll" or in what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi characterizes as "flow." We can't miss, we can't lose, the force is with us. However, that same force can also produce negative, sometimes disastrous results.

Alice Schroeder selected The Snowball as a title for her biography of Warren Buffett because, when he was a boy growing up in Omaha, he observed a large ball-like shape rolling down a hill, gaining both size and speed as it moved along. He immediately recognized its implicit power. Positive compound interest remains among his core principles. For millions of others, negative compound interest (e.g. on credit card debt, "upside-down" mortgages) has created very serious problems.

For me, Darren Hardy's most important point in this book is this: All of the decisions people make (however "small" they may be) can have positive results if those decisions are guided and informed by what he calls The Compound Effect principle. Conversely, a minor cut that becomes infected and is neglected could eventually result in major surgery, perhaps even an amputation. In fact, Hardy insists - and I agree - there are no "minor" or "small" decisions if their potential implications and consequences are ignored. These are among the subjects that Hardy addresses in his book:

o How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.
o Eradicate bad habits that are preventing or delaying success (however defined)
o Install and master the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs of achievement
o Motivate yourself to do what you really don't want to do...but must do, to succeed.
o Initiate the "elusive, awesome force of momentum" and then sustain it, especially during hard times
o Adopt and then accelerate the secrets of superachievers

At the conclusion of Chapters 1-6, he provides an admonition to "Put the Compound Effect to Work for You" by following through on a "Summary of Action Steps." I commend Hardy for his frequent, insistent, at times passionate reminders of how difficult, REALLY difficult it is to replace bad habits (e.g. purchases to accommodate instant gratification) and bad influences (especially people). I presume to add my own voice: All of his recommendations are crystal clear and easy to understand. (There isn't a single brilliant insight among them, nor does he make any such claim.) It is also true that all of his recommendations require painful self-sacrifices as well as a steadfast, indeed tenacious commitment. He agrees with the Yoda: "Do or do not. There is no try."

All that said, there is some "good news" worth sharing that will provide a context, a frame-of-reference for personal sacrifices, replacing bad habits and bad influences with good ones, detailed documentation of spending, fear, pain (if not terror), embarrassment, and frustration. From a source I do not recall, there is what is identified as "The Magic Penny" example of The Compound Effect. Here's the situation: You are given a choice between $3-million in cash now or a single penny that doubles in value each day during a 31-day period. Which would you take? Hardy discusses it and other examples in Chapter 1. My point now is that there are no magic pennies, silver bullets, etc. However, there is wisdom of priceless value and much of it is in this unassuming but cordial as well as hard-hitting book. If you aren't as determined to achieve success (however defined) as much as Darren Hardy is determined to help you do it, then you can await divine intervention.
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The Compound Effect does what it 'says on the tin'. Realistic and I'm still reading it ... one of those books you go back to ... has an effect on me that's for sure.
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