Your most important and most frequent investment decisions are not about money but about time and energy, conversations and relationships, mental and physical health, learning… These build your Life Capital an essential driver of your future opportunities and satisfaction. It comprises your human capital (who and what you are), your social capital (who and what youre surrounded by) and your financial capital (what you own). Investing in Life empowers you to enjoy success and satisfaction on your terms – through engaged conversation and by applying lessons from the great long-term investors to build your Life Capital. People development is an investment process. There is a powerful analogy which can be drawn between the highly measurable world of financial investment and the relatively unquantifiable world of people development. Investing in Life brings this analogy to the fore, enabling you to view your development through the prism of an investor. The unifying concept of the book is that you can better identify the big opportunities for investment in yourself or others by drawing on the lessons which the great investors apply in spotting financial investment opportunities. Author Ian Pollards aim is to encourage and empower you to find bigger opportunities and to see how big they are or how much bigger you can make them, so you will invest more aggressively in the best ones and make your life and others lives more pleasant, satisfying and rewarding.
Book Details:
- Author: Ian Pollard
- ISBN: 9781118319529
- Year Published: 2012
- Pages: 416
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
Your most important and most frequent investment decisions are not about money but about time and energy, conversations and relationships, mental and physical health, learning… These build your Life Capital an essential driver of your future opportunities and satisfaction. It comprises your human capital (who and what you are), your social capital (who and what youre surrounded by) and your financial capital (what you own). Investing in Life empowers you to enjoy success and satisfaction on your terms – through engaged conversation and by applying lessons from the great long-term investors to build your Life Capital. People development is an investment process. There is a powerful analogy which can be drawn between the highly measurable world of financial investment and the relatively unquantifiable world of people development. Investing in Life brings this analogy to the fore, enabling you to view your development through the prism of an investor. The unifying concept of the book is that you can better identify the big opportunities for investment in yourself or others by drawing on the lessons which the great investors apply in spotting financial investment opportunities. Author Ian Pollards aim is to encourage and empower you to find bigger opportunities and to see how big they are or how much bigger you can make them, so you will invest more aggressively in the best ones and make your life and others lives more pleasant, satisfying and rewarding.
Business self-help is trending up at the moment and will continue to do so for some time. This book builds on the fundamental ideas laid out in earlier works (such as 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and takes it further to relate it specifically to high level business people.
Committed, passionate author who actively invests in his own Life Capital and uses engaged conversation as a method to do this No other book which explores the issues of Life Capital and potential utilising the financial analogies The importance of conversation in developing your potential Identifying opportunities and not letting them pass you by The potential of conversations to enhance your career, finances, relationships
About the Author
Dr Ian Pollard has had a lifetime interest in the development of peoples capabilities and relationships, their identification of opportunities and their overcoming of hurdles. He has pursued this with youth (as a parent, in sport, in education and in the voluntary sector), with senior business or professional people (as a chairman, director or CEO of companies and as an executive coach) and as a writer. Importantly these diverse engagements all build Ians own Life Capital. He is an actuary and Rhodes Scholar, represented Australia in tennis and is married with 3 children.