High Praise FOR It's Your Job: Take Charge of It!

Business Leader
Chuck has captured the essence of success in this easy-to-read book.
Gordon E. Moore, Chairman Emeritus
Intel Corporation

Business School Dean
Loaded with gems of sound and straightforward advice, this book provides long-term payoff for both new and senior managers alike.
Barry Z. Posner, Dean
Leavey School of Business , Santa Clara University

Small Business Owner
It would be a crying shame to put this book on a shelf where it could easily become forgotten!
Joseph DeMaio, Owner
Val-Pak Franchise

Teacher
The five parts of success described in this book apply to my teaching job. However, as I stand before each class, I realize I must never forget the importance of influence—my influence on my students and theirs on me.
George W. Chase,
Mathematics Teacher, Secondary School

Medical Doctor
Upon receiving this book, I had serious doubts that a text written by a business person would have even a remote application to the practice of medicine. I was wrong. The five parts of success apply to medicine: knowing (continued learning to keep up with the advances in science), deciding (which treatment regimen, which diagnostic techniques, what is the cost and benefit ratio), assigning (hospitalization or home care, referral to a specialist), influencing (training house staff and students, interaction with other health professionals) and coping (humility to the complexities of biologic systems with our still minimal knowledge and accepting the inevitability of aging and death).
James W. Raitt, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine

Executive Director
Loved it . . . deceptively simple . . . profound and lasting.
Molly Polidorff, Executive Director
Center for Excellence in Nonprofits

Executive Search Leader
I find this book to be relevant for all people—from an apprentice to the seasoned CEO who needs a reminder. I would recommend this book to everyone.
David L. Powell, Sr., Principal
David Powell, Inc.

Money Manager
It's Your Job: Take Charge of It is more than a practical, how-to book for job success. Motivated by an old-fashioned value system of self-reliance, courage, and courtesy, the author outlines a straightforward way for becoming a responsible adult. Peppered with easy-to-understand examples, this book should be required reading for upwardly mobile people between 5 and 105, starting with my four kids.
Tom Steyer, Principal
Farallon Capital Management

Chief Executive Officer, Manufacturing Firm
Here is a much-needed new approach for personal success. It’s for everyone.
Arthur W. Zafiropoulo, Chairman & C.E.O.
Ultratech, Inc.

Human Resources Executive
Having been in the human resources field my entire career, I have found that regardless of a person’s education or discipline, the attribute most needed in business to succeed is common sense. This small book is big on common sense and wisdom for people in all kinds of jobs and professions.
Sandi Kile, Vice President, Human Resources,
Fujitsu Microelectronics America

Police Officer
When I was assigned to work with gangs, I received special training and gained knowledge from the gangs on how they operate. I decided how to deploy my meager resources. I gave and received assignments. I influenced my chief and community leaders to do more. I coped with the slowness of everyone’s response to the call for action. This book would have definitely helped me do things better and faster.
David Lanier, Police Lieutenant
Fremont, California

Organization and Development Professional
This book reframes the challenge of coping with events outside one’s control, in an inspiring fashion that enables and empowers folks to succeed.
Richard J. Lee, Owner
Private Consulting Business

Author, Best Selling Business Books
From ranching to Shackelton exploring Antarctica, from marketing electronics to Rachael Carson fighting to save the planet. These efforts, and more, define work at its best. This is an important book for just about everyone. It’s short. It’s well written. It’s useful. If you follow even some of its guidelines, you will like your job better, and you will do better.
Bob Waterman, Co-author,
In Search of Excellence

Business School Professor
It’s Your Job: Take Charge of It contains five key states of being and acting that have made the difference for many successful and well-known people. It can do the same for you. This book will inspire you with stories of success and give you the insights you need to do your best.
Michael Beer, Cahners-Robb
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Harvard Business School

President/CEO
If a person’s goal is to do his or her best (and it should be), they couldn’t find a better book to help them.
Kathy Riggins, President/CEO
YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula
Northern California