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Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career
Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career
An inspiring, wise, and highly practical method for discovering your true self and the fulfilling career just for you.
No matter where we are in our lives, be it atop the heights of achievement or just setting out on our journey, we’ve all had that moment when we’ve wondered, what is my purpose? What was I born to do? The answer can feel just within our grasp or as far off as the horizon. How in the world do we get there?
Enter Becoming You, a joyful, deeply researched, and immediately applicable step-by-step guidebook to help you answer that very question. Based on the phenomenally popular NYU class by the same name, and used by thousands of people around the world, Becoming You is an empathetic yet absolutely zero-BS method designed to help you understand where you want to go and what you want to do in today’s ever-changing world.
Professor Suzy Welch, a respected expert in careers, decision-making, and identity formation, is the director of the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, and a former columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine, she has consulted for some of America’s largest companies, is a frequent commentator for the Wall Street Journal, and is a regular guest on NBC’s Today and on CNBC. Her previous three books have been New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and her fast-growing, authentic, and often hilarious Becoming You podcast has fans worldwide. But more than anything, Professor Welch is a teacher and an agent of transformation.
After a life filled with wide and varied experiences, from crime reporter to tech entrepreneur, she has learned that her own purpose is helping others find theirs. Out of fifteen years of researching and testing, she created Becoming You, with the heartfelt goal of helping people discover a way forward in a complex world. To that end, Becoming You guides readers through the process of excavating their truest values, identifying their outstanding aptitudes, and, finally, pinpointing their economically viable interests — that is, the kind of work that calls them emotionally and intellectually, and also makes sense financially. Ultimately, Becoming You — by turns warm, witty, pragmatic, and filled with tough love — is your guide to having the life you were meant to live.
Becoming You will be published by HarperBusiness on May 6, 2025.
Hoda Kotb
Former host, The Today Show
“ ”10-10-10: A Life Transforming Idea
10-10-10: A Life Transforming Idea
We all want to lead a life of our own choosing. But in today’s accelerated world of competing priorities, evolving options, and increasing information overload, we can find ourselves steered by impulse, stress, or expedience. Are our decisions the right ones? Or are we being governed, time and again, and against our best intentions, by the demands of the moment and the interests of others?
As a transformative approach to decision-making, 10-10-10 offers a clear pathway to reclaim control over your life and its direction. The process is clear, straightforward, and value-based. To begin, all it takes is one simple question: “What will the consequences of my decision options be in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years?”
Sounds simple? Not quite.
At its essence, 10-10-10 reveals how exploring the impact of our decisions in multiple time frames invariably surfaces our unconscious agendas, fears, needs, and desires — thus encouraging us to align our lives with our deepest goals and values. Initially featured on the pages of O Magazine, the power of 10-10-10 continues to replace chaos with consistency, guilt with joy, and confusion with clarity.
A new and revised version of 10-10-10 will be published by HarperBusiness in January 2026.
Daniel Goleman
Author of Emotional Intelligence
“ ”Real-Life MBA
Real-Life MBA
A modern, essential guide for everyone in business today—and tomorrow—that explores the most pressing challenges related to creating winning strategies, leading and managing others, and building a thriving career.
Going beyond theories, concepts, and ideologies, The Real-Life MBA tackles the no-BS stuff of work, the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break dilemmas that define the new economy. There’s no visibility. Our competitors just whacked us. My boss is driving me nuts. I’m stuck in career purgatory. My team has lost its mojo. Engineering is holding us hostage. Our strategy is outdated the day we launch it. We’re just not growing. These are just some of the day-to-day issues Suzy and Jack take on in this indispensable volume, replete with relevant stories and equally powerful solutions that every manager at any level can use right now.
From hiring the right people, to get hired yourself…
From building a great culture, to fixing one that’s broken….
From talking about innovation, to making it integral to all you do….
From starting a company, to making it a business…
From finding your purpose, to infusing your team with the spirit to take any mountain…
There’s no business topic left unexamined in The Real-Life MBA, and each is discussed with the Welches’ trademark candor, incisiveness, wisdom, and encouragement.
Kirkus Reviews
“ ”Winning
Winning
One of the best-selling business books of all time, WINNING is both timeless and timely in its advice about how to navigate the ever-changing world of work. Written for everyone from CEOs to recent grads, entrepreneurs to team leaders, this engaging and fast-paced book covers the territory from hiring and building an A-plus team to taking on fierce competition. Its stories are real and entirely human, its messages are candid and actionable. As Warren Buffet said of it, “No other business book will ever be needed.”
The recipient of numerous awards since its publication, most recently WINNING was named one of the Top 10 business books you must read by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.
Bill Gates
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