Could this be your game-changer?

• Author: Kristie, James
• Position: LEADERSHIP

From Tell to Win by Peter Guber. Copyright 2011 by the author. Published by Crown Business (www.crownpublishing.com).

IN MY LIFE I've experienced tremendous success across diverse ventures and industries, but I've also had a boatload of professional tipovers, economic mishaps, managerial disasters, and creative flops. I've backed products that left my bank account empty and my garage full of unsold inventory. I've started music companies that were off-tune and bought the Las Vegas Thunder, a pro hockey team that then went on to a five-year profit-losing streak with an audience that didn't give a puck. My movies weren't all boffo, either. Folks tried to walk out on "The Bonfire of the Vanities" even when it was shown on planes, and I certainly had my ups and downs at Sony. These losses were financially and emotionally painful--and often highly public. And my many successes only made the failures that much more confounding.

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For years I wondered, was I ruled by dumb luck? Or was there a game-changer that would enlarge my target, sharpen my trajectory, accelerate my momentum, and shorten the distance to my goal? Wouldn't it be terrific if this game-changer also...