Success Story

Is success getting a big raise? Earning the respect of your colleagues? Having time to volunteer? One school of thought suggests it’s not always the fast track that will get you there.

- Louisa Kamps

Let’s admit it: success is a loaded word. We embrace it, celebrate it and, given our millennial belief that any of us could become a wild success at any moment, we have a long tradition of self-help literature on the subject, starting with a book that doesn’t even have the S-word in the title: How To Win Friends And Influence People – originally published in 1936 and still one of the bestselling non-fiction books on Amazon. In it, author Dale Carnegie, a former pork salesman turned public-speaking guru, says it’s collegiality – fostering bonds of trust and decency at work – that paves the way to success.