{"product_id":"life-lessons-52-propositions-for-the-professional-who-has-no-senior-left-to-ask-9798258834300","title":"Life Lessons: 52 Propositions for the Professional Who Has No Senior Left to Ask","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cornelis Van Houte\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Leadership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deposition is Tuesday. The brief is due tonight. The senior who used to answer your questions is gone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho do you call? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is the call. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Lessons by Frost\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the five-minute conversation he never got. Scheduled in advance. Available without an appointment. Deliverable in the time it takes to read it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifty-two propositions. Eight sections. One principle per chapter you can act on next week. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eInside, you will learn: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy every plan multiplies by 1.2 to 1.5 in execution - and how to price the multiplier in \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e you submit the timeline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy tempo, not force, dictates the engagement - and how to close the decision cycle before opposing counsel files\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy training is the only asset no liquidation, divorce, or disbarment can take from you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the high-value signal in any operation is what is \u003ci\u003eabsent\u003c\/i\u003e - and how to train the eye to read silence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy candour, once compromised, poisons every record built on top of it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy closer, not finished, is the only honest direction of professional travel - and why it is enough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWritten for the junior associate, the platoon commander, the founder, the trader, the surgeon - anyone whose day's work decides the next decade's record. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe 48 Laws of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eRead 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStop managing your career. Start operating it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe chapters follow.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883394777239,"sku":"9798258834300","price":1679.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258834300.webp?v=1781101608","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/life-lessons-52-propositions-for-the-professional-who-has-no-senior-left-to-ask-9798258834300","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}