WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 POSTPONED

Success, both in one’s career and in life, can be difficult to measure and even harder to define. This compelling Lifelong Learning event will feature Professor G. Richard Shell, the originator of the popular “Literature of Success” course at Wharton and author of the recently published Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success (Penguin/Portfolio 2013). Professor Shell will challenge you to investigate two deeply personal questions:

• How do I define success in my life?
• What are my strengths and weaknesses in terms of success-oriented practices?

The event includes a personalized, interactive profiler to help you discover your current success beliefs and a story-filled talk on what modern social science research can teach you about the components of success, including such things as happiness, achievement, excellence, and meaningful work.

Come to this truly fascinating event and leave with some new ideas about how you can define and achieve your own “truly successful” life.

Register Online [POSTPONED]
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Time: 6:00pm Networking, 7:00pm Progam, Q&A
Location: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Registration: $20 for WCNC members. Members of Affiliate Clubs:  $20 per person. Non-member alumni and other guests: $40 per person.Registrations after 4:00pm on Friday, June 13th are an extra $10 per ticket. Cancellations after Friday, June 13th is at the discretion of the WCNC. No charge for Wharton Club Gold Ticket Members (but remember as always to register via the above 'Register Online' link). Registration closes on Monday, June 16th at 3:00pm.
New membership is available at http://www.whartonclub.com/memsub.html.

About our Speaker:

G. Richard Shell
As the Wharton School’s Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management, G. Richard Shell has won almost every teaching prize the School has to offer. He is also the Director of Wharton’s Executive Negotiation Workshop (with Professor Cade Massey) and its Strategic Persuasion Workshop (with Mario Moussa). He has taught everyone from Navy SEALs, UN diplomats, and Fortune 500 CEOs to FBI hostage negotiators, emergency room nurses, and front-line public school teachers.

He is the author of three personal development books. Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success was named both Best Business Book of Year and Best Personal Development Book of the Year for 2013 by one of the country’s biggest business booksellers, CEO-READ. Booklist called Springboard an “outstanding” contribution to the success literature and gave it a coveted “Starred Review.” Professor Shell’s other personal development titles include the award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (2nd Edition, Penguin 2006) – used in many business and law school negotiation course classrooms -- and (with co-author Mario Moussa) The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas (Portfolio/Penguin 2007). His works are available in over fifteen languages.