Me, Inc. How to Master the Business of Being You: A Personalized Program for Exceptional Living

by Scott W. Ventrella

Book Overview

Advance praise for Me, Inc "Ventrella takes the best practices of Fortune 500 companies and shows how you can apply them to another important venture--you Your life deserves at least as much attention as your job does, so read this book and turn your time on Earth into a satisfying, meaningful enterprise." --Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager? and Leading at a Higher Level "Rarely does a book so authentically capture the essence of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470100303
• ISBN13: 9780470100301
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

An exceptional book

Ventrella's first book -- The Power of Positive Thinking in Business -- was a masterwork. His latest -- Me Inc. -- is exceptional. If more people implemented his ideas, businesses would be more successful and, more importantly, people would lead more meaningful and satisfying lives. What could be better than that?

Practical program to create an exceptional life

This book presents a focused, action-based, 16-week course on using sound business principles to clarify, enrich, expand and revitalize your personal life. The step-by-step approach will help you understand what really matters to you and how to organize your life to be satisfying and meaningful. Scott W. Ventrella helps you identify your core principles and tells you how to make them a living part of your life. He is not a guru who will tell you the secrets of life but rather a coach pushing you to make your own discoveries. His occasional use of composite (or perhaps fictional) characters as examples can undermine his credibility, but getAbstract recommends his practical program to people at the beginning of their careers, or those who've reached a dead end, and are willing to put in the time and work it takes to get moving.

For the right person, this can be a plan for the life you want

This is one of those work-life balance books that is more about you than work. It is a practical guide and emphasizes working on building a plan for your life rather than just thinking about it. For the right audience, this book will have real benefits. The idea behind that book is that you can use the same kinds of methods that successful businesses use to make your life into the kind of success you want it to be. The book uses imagery that you can use to motivate yourself and into action. The first the author uses is visualizing yourself on a burning platform a couple dozen feet off the ground. What do you do? Then find your burning platform in your own life. The next is the COIL or Cost of Inefficient Living report. How much is it costing you to stay where you are? The author, Scott Ventrella, also teaches you how to create your own Exceptional Living Plan and then how to use that to manage your life. What I did like is the way he gets into your core values, rather than supplying them himself (although he does makes some broad suggestions about what constitutes a balanced life). His method also includes a way to modify and update your plan to keep it fresh and relevant to your present life rather than become a musty artifact of who you used to be. You really shouldn't just read the book from front to back. He gives you assignments along the way and to get the most from the book you need to do them. Like I said, for the right people, this can be a pretty helpful book. Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

Home Run!

Ventrella hit a home run with this book! It really makes you think and take action to improve the quality of your life. The chapter that talks about living a life where you're putting out fires everyday just to get by is no life at all, and how that affects your mental and physical health made me sit up and listen. This is a quick read with quick lessons--buy it--read it---live it!