As a CEO and Owner of a company, I think this book is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Short, concise, and to the point, this book concisely drives home what we need to do daily in our business lives. Anyone with employees planning to grow their business should get this. I loved it as an audiobook, and am now listening to it for the second time.

This book had some great little bits of advice, nothing deep or extrodinary, but its already helped change my outlook in some ways! Plus I have been using it with a high school group that I mentor their leadership team, and they are already quoting back some of the stories and phrases and finding ways to make use of the advice! Some is simple, some overlaps, but in the end, you feel like you are motivated and can motivate others better than when you started!

Waste of time! Mono-tone reader makes you feel UNmotivated as you listen.

This book is good in parts, and other parts are a bit trite. It relies on a few stories a bit too much - by the end of the book you're going to feel you don't care at all about some guy and his violin teacher but you've been hearing about them for a long time now - but often balances that by stating some obvious things that people sometimes don't say out loud and so they go unnoticed. You wouldn't be wasting your time here, but don't burn your last book credit on it either.

This book might also have been named 400 quotations somewhat linked to 100 statements supporting about 30 ideas built on about a dozen techniques to motivate, along with some thoughts on time management, happiness, and leadership. But that would have been too long.

Seriously, there are some excellent observations included within, and there's a good book lurking somewhere inside, but it's just too hard to find.

This should also be a good example of the need for an independent narrator. For a book on motivation to be read in a long, droning, hang-dog fashion is just - unmotivating!

I would also suggest for books like this that Audible mark the paragraph divisions better. The jump button doesn't deliver to the next of 100 items, but to somewhere way up ahead. And there will be times you will want to use it.

The book is also repetitious. I suppose a case can be made that focusing, thinking about one thing, and concentrating are not the same, but really....

In summary - Good observations, repetitious, and very loosely organized, delivered with droning narration.