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Life Lessons: 52 Propositions for the Professional Who Has No Senior Left to Ask

by Cornelis Van Houte
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798258834300
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 218
  • Original Price: GBP 14.77
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 300 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Leadership

The deposition is Tuesday. The brief is due tonight. The senior who used to answer your questions is gone.

Who do you call?

This book is the call.

Life Lessons by Frost is a working lawyer's distillation of thirty years across two professions and two continents - written for the junior who, in five or ten years, will find himself in the position Frost once occupied: same questions, same morning, no one to consult.

It is the five-minute conversation he never got. Scheduled in advance. Available without an appointment. Deliverable in the time it takes to read it.

Fifty-two propositions. Eight sections. One principle per chapter you can act on next week.

The progression moves from the operator's day, to the people he works with, to capital and constraint, to skill and standing - and finally to command itself.
Inside, you will learn:

  • Why every plan multiplies by 1.2 to 1.5 in execution - and how to price the multiplier in before you submit the timeline
  • Why tempo, not force, dictates the engagement - and how to close the decision cycle before opposing counsel files
  • Why training is the only asset no liquidation, divorce, or disbarment can take from you
  • Why the high-value signal in any operation is what is absent - and how to train the eye to read silence
  • Why candour, once compromised, poisons every record built on top of it
  • Why closer, not finished, is the only honest direction of professional travel - and why it is enough
Written for the junior associate, the platoon commander, the founder, the trader, the surgeon - anyone whose day's work decides the next decade's record.

If Meditations, The 48 Laws of Power, or anything by Nassim Taleb sits on your shelf, this book belongs next to them - sharper, more recently dated, written from the working desk rather than the lecture hall.
Read it in sequence. Or pick the chapter that names the problem on your desk this morning. Some chapters land now. Others land in a year. The delay is the work.

Stop managing your career. Start operating it.

The chapters follow.

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