Success Built to Last

What’s Your Story?

Tell us about your struggle for success and meaning in your life and in your organization

We would like to learn about the challenges, humiliation and roadblocks that you faced on the path to victory and defeat. How did you overcome obstacles to find success that means something to you? You know, success that matters. What did you learn and what can you share about it? What’s the best story you’ve ever heard about success and failure?

Only fill out what you want here (with the exception of the required contact information at the bottom), but we'd love as much detail as you can provide:

What are your suggestions about the book Success Built To Last—and what or who should we talk about for our next one?
How would you define what it means to have success that matters, rather than just success defined by your friends, relatives, your boss, coworkers, your culture or your in-laws?
Give us an example of your best and worst professional or personal relationships and mention three things that made them so great or so awful and why.
What is the worst thing in life or work that has ever happened to you that you were able to overcome?
What did you expect to happen before things went wrong?
What did you expect to happen after things went wrong? How old were you and who were you with? Who seemed against you and who seemed to be on your side?
If this was an event, describe the physical setting in as much detail as possible, i.e. where you were, what was the weather and the time of day; describe the location, etc.
If this problem involved another person or people, please describe their how they looked and how they acted in detail.
How did you go about solving this crisis? Please describe at least 5 steps.
What was your most humiliating moment in this story? Why?
What was your proudest moment? Why?
What did you wish you knew at the beginning that you know now? What did you learn?
Is there any benefit to this awful thing happening to you? Is there anything about the bad experience that made your purpose in life clearer to you? Why?
How can we contact you to learn more about your story?

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