Just the Good Stuff - No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)

Informationen zum Autor Jim VandeHei is the cofounder and CEO of Axios, a media company focused on breaking news and invaluable insights across business, politics, technology, and the world. VandeHei is also coauthor of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less . Before Axios, VandeHei cofounded and was CEO of Politico , the media company that upended and revolutionized political and policy journalism. Prior to this, VandeHei spent more than a decade as a reporter, covering the presidency and Congress for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post . VandeHei is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico . Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot. Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.  VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff , his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.  Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach. Leseprobe Chapter 1 Zotheka! After I’d spent fifty-one years in an artless body, my first tattoo was slapped on my right shoulder at the tail end of 2022. Zotheka, it reads. WHY IT MATTERS. In Malawi, I was told, zotheka is considered among the most muscular words and means: “It is possible.” I had just wrapped up an unforgettable mission trip with my two sons, Kelvin and James. Local villagers would chant “Zotheka!” with infectious smiles and enthusiasm. It nails the animating spirit of my view on work, life, health, and the purpose of this book. You might roll your eyes at this cheesy lens. But the mere fact that a middling dipshit like me could rise to the pinnacle of American journalism, then become CEO of two highly successful media start-ups—and then persuade you to read this—shows that truly anything is possible. I was so middling that at my high school graduation, they had to make up an award because I had no scholastic, academic, or extracurricular achievements. They didn’t want me to be the only kid with nothing to applaud. They called it the Campus Ministry Award because I hung out a lot in the campus ministry room, where I quickly learned I could weasel my way into random errands and sneak smokes. Oh, and when I graduated college in a speedy 5.5 years and loaded up my VW Rabbit to hit the big ti...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jim VandeHei
• Edition: Harmony
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9780593796375
• ISBN: 978-0-593-79637-5
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Catégorie: Livres de conseils > Droit, profession, finances