G. Richard Shell, author of SPRINGBOARD, pens the piece, “Do You Have the Right Kind of Confidence,” for Entrepreneur.com:
“What does it take to be an entrepreneur? I believe genuine success comes if — and only if — you have the right kind of confidence. And that means you need two forms of it, not just one. I call these Level 1 and Level 2….”
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227991#ixzz2dBNW48gm
Kare Anderson writes on Forbes.com about G. Richard Shell’s popular “Success Course” at Wharton, and his new book, SPRINGBOARD:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kareanderson/2013/08/17/double-up-on-happiness-and-meaning-with-others/
Kare Anderson writes about G. Richard Shell and SPRINGBOARD in her Huffington Post piece, “Wharton’s Popular ‘Success Course’ Boosts Happiness”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kare-anderson/whartons-popular-success-_b_3773753.html
Laura Vanderkam’s excellent Fast Company piece, “How Creating a Better Bucket List Becomes a Blueprint for Living Your Best Life,” features G. Richard Shell and SPRINGBOARD (http://www.fastcompany.com/3016281/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/how-creating-a-better-bucket-list-becomes-a-blueprint-for-):
“The biggest payoffs from making a bucket list don’t come from taking great vacations–vacations are great anyway–but from upgrading life’s more mundane experiences. G. Richard Shell, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, set a life list goal to ‘Listen to every great book that everybody’s said they’ve read but no one has.’ Note the verb: listen. Shell consumes all this literature via audiobook in his car. When I met him at a coffee shop recently, he had been listening to David Copperfield on the way there. There are hazards–‘I was on the Pennsylvania turnpike and drove right past the Valley Forge exit because I was in the middle of the Trojan War”–but he’s also been reminded that “great books are really great.’ He’s listened to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and so forth by finding ‘this little white space in the day I can fill in.'”
SPRINGBOARD by G. Richard Shell has been chosen as one of four recommended summer reads by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Amy Lindgren writes:
“What sets this book apart from other career and business titles is that [Shell] has no system for achieving success. Instead he offers a series of questions, exercises and anecdotes sandwiched around more literary references than an English major could shake a stick at…..If you’d like to plumb the depths of your career crisis before moving forward, this book can be your guide.”
http://www.twincities.com/business/ci_23879087/summer-reading-part-2-creating-pathways-new-work
University of Virginia Magazine features SPRINGBOARD in its latest issue: http://uvamagazine.org/alumni_spotlight/article/springboard#.UhzFxxZFslJ
“G. Richard Shell’s (Law ’81) new book,Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success, due out this week, is designed to help readers face any kind of transition in life – from college to work, from one career to the next, or from working to retirement. It distills several decades of research, work with fellow scholars, and deep discussions with students and executives…”.