This is the perfect book to turn your career and your life into a success. Every active professional, whether just graduated or in the middle or at the end of his career, needs to have this book on his or her bedside table. It is quite unique that an active manager and staff director delves into his personal font of wisdom and gives away all his secrets and tricks. Georges Anthoon hands out tactics and strategies to steer your career into the direction that you yourself want. He warns for pitfalls and risks and showers you with countless tips and tricks to avoid misfortune. At the same time he explains how you can avoid stress at work and how private happiness and professional success can be matched. Thanks to an abundance of personal stories complete with testimonies of colleagues this book will not bore you for one second. Georges Anthoon gives you the chance to have a peek into an experienced HR-manager's head. His approach is surprisingly original, every bit of information a source of enrichment. The feelgood@work and feelgood@life toolboxes should encourage you to get going yourself. Two chapters have been written for specific target groups: executives or people managers, and ambitious high-potentials. Georges Anthoon is a director of Human Resources, Intern Communication and Building mFacilities at AXA Belgium, a function he also used to have at Belgacom, Coopers .Lybrand, Shell and AIB-Vinçotte. He also teaches Human Resources, Intern Communication and Change Management at the Vlerick Management School, UAMS Management School and EHSAL. In 2001 he received the HR Manager of the Year Award. 'All in all a no-nonsense book. Interesting for everyone who wants to balance his professional and personal life based on realistic goals, action plans and priorities, rather than just wait and see.' Westlandsche Courant 'Talent in action is an outstandingly entertaining book, that's the least we can say. The fact is that author Georges Anthoon draws from his own experience and motives. He interlaces his story with lots of 'asides', illustrative anecdotes of colleagues, staff members, friends. All this makes it a pleasure to read.' HR Magazine
