No one would embark on a business venture without a thorough and
coherent plan. So why are so many of us happy to stagger through life
with no real plan, just going with the flow and seeing what happens? It
is time we give our lives the same importance we give to our business
exploits and thanks to Stephen Bruyant-Langer’s new book, The
Personal Business Plan, help is on its way.
The Personal Business Plan, published by Wiley, is a fascinating,
credible and practical field-tested guide for all ambitious human beings
on planning out what you want from your life and exactly how to achieve
it. Written by a senior partner from the world’s leading Executive
Search and Talent Management firm, Korn/Ferry International, it will
change the way you look at yourself, your life and your career.
Transformational and inspirational, this book offers a comprehensive and
effective guidance on thriving in the work place and becoming a happier
person in every aspect of your life – and the best news – if you follow
Stephen’s advice, it really works.
The Personal Business Plan helps you define your ambitions and
overcome self-limitations, creating a breakthrough – a true sense of
professional purpose and belonging. It allows you to identify your
mission, determine the criteria for success and define your own agenda –
keeping to the point, prioritising and avoiding distraction on the path
to achieving your goals.
Author, Stephen Bruyant-Langer, has worked as a senior partner,
head-hunter and top executive coach at Korn/Ferry International. For
more than 15 years, he has in parallel pursued an academic Executive
Education career, teaching courses at CopenhagenBusinessSchool.
Previously he worked as marketing director with companies including
L’Oréal and The Coca-Cola Company.
Stephen describes The Personal Business Plan as the central
tool in the executive coaching system he has perfected since 1996 – when
he found himself out of work, with a house, two cars, a wife and four
children to support. He has had the privilege of contributing
significantly to breakthroughs for thousands of executives undergoing
periods of personal transition. They have carried through the same steps
and answered the same questions that readers are asked to reflect on in
his new book.
For everybody he has worked with, it has led to fundamental clarity and
improvements in their lives. The Personal Business Plan allows
readers to perform sensible, essential changes around a fixed starting
point – personal life values. Stephen starts his book by offering
readers his ‘10 best pieces of inspirational advice on how to obtain
success and happiness:
1) Be generous, 2) Be inclusive and tolerant, 3) Stop
living up to other people’s expectations, 4) Be an
interesting conversation partner, 5) Be direct and
consequent in your communication, 6) Spend 10,000 hours on
becoming excellent at something, 7) Break the mold before
you break down, 8) Run a risk from time to time, 9) Find
your life ambition, 10) Reinvent yourself
From this point onwards readers are treated to easy-to-apply advice with
key-learning summaries at the end of each chapter. As Stephen has found,
most leaders have difficulties in applying their professional toolbox to
their personal life –The Personal Business Plan helps you make
personal decisions and become surprisingly good at implementing them.
To coincide with the launch of The Personal Business Plan,
readers will be able to visit www.thepersonalbusinessplan.com where
they will be offered the toolkit found in the book, it will feature
quotes, lists and inspirational advice from the man who continues to
change thousands of lives.
