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Got What It Takes? Successful People Reveal How They Made It To The Top
Bill Boggs
306 pages
Collins
An Imprint of
HarperCollins, Publishers

The path to earning a diploma often proves full of unexpected and life shaping developments. Sometimes it's the people prospective graduates encounter that set them on their career path. Others find their way through reflection on cumulative experiences, a work-study job, a summer internship, or reading a moving essay in English 101. Yet as they stand at threshold of a new beginning, many graduates wonder if they've got what it takes to pursue and realize personal and professional success.

Emmy Award winning television host, Bill Boggs ventures to address these concerns in his book Got What It Takes? Successful People Reveal How They Made It To The Top. While relating what he learned through interviews with forty-four celebrities, entrepreneurs and other luminaries, Boggs offers a wide-ranging set of guidelines for those in search of personal as well as professional success. The variety of personalities and industries presented by Boggs provide what amount to blueprints, which the attentive can discern, follow and tailor to meet their individual needs and aspirations. If a reader desires to pursue a career in television Matt Lauer, Joy Behar and Bill O'Reilly discuss their paths to becoming hosts on popular shows produced by major networks. Anna Quindlen shares how her career as a writer grew out of her need to express herself and her desire to be noticed. She tells Boggs, "I wanted to be a star."