Tactics : the art and science of success /
Edward de Bono.
- Reissue.
- London : Profile Business, 2007
- 256 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London : Collins, 1985.
Styles and characteristics of success -- What stimulates success -- How far is success within our control? -- Focus I -- Focus II -- Thinking and doing -- Strategy -- Decision making -- Opportunity -- Risk -- Strategy for people as resources -- Tactical play -- Epilogue : Lessons, new horizons.
This book is based upon 50 interviews with men and women, e.g. Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran and Malcolm Forbes, who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. With his usual perceptiveness, Edward de Bono analyses their different paths to success, revealing that underneath their different styles and their greatly different personal qualities are a few characteristics which are common to all successful people. De Bono provides the lessons for anyone seeking success in their lives. - Publisher.