Modern Achievement

Outline

Modern Achievement (2024) offers thirty practical lessons for young people and aspiring leaders who want to build meaningful careers. Asheesh Advani and Marshall Goldsmith combine timeless principles with modern realities, covering topics such as purpose, learning, networking, resilience, personal branding, and working with technology. The book encourages readers to define success on their own terms.

• The book offers thirty practical lessons for young people and aspiring leaders who want to build meaningful careers.
• It blends timeless principles with modern realities, so classic career advice sits alongside today's digital working world.
• Purpose, learning, networking, resilience, personal branding and working with technology are the main themes the authors cover.
• Readers are encouraged to define success on their own terms instead of borrowing someone else's measure.
• A resilient career depends on continuous learning and confident adaptation to technological change.

Asheesh Advani and Marshall Goldsmith combine experience in youth education and executive coaching. Advani is the chief executive of JA Worldwide, one of the largest organisations preparing young people for work and entrepreneurship, and Goldsmith is a renowned executive coach whose books include What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.