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Organizations expend considerable time and money in developing their leaders and helping them to lead more effectively. However traditional thinking generally yields traditional results, and these don't seem to be getting us to where we want to go. Obviously our thinking needs to change. This is where Breakthrough Thinking comes in. Breakthrough Thinking aims to reduce our efforts, and either sustain or enhance the results we get. And it achieves this by leveraging the most common currency of all human interaction-conversation. F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success is a refreshing, incisive and humorous book that will compel us to change the way we look at things. It will help us think with clarity, listen for potential, speak with intent and act with purpose. The omnipotent F.C.U.K. does away with complexity. It empowers and energizes: F. - FOCUS on the person, not the problemC. - CHANGE all challenges into opportunitiesU. - UNCOVER solutions by discussing optionsK. - KNOW how to break down problems; it's as important as solving themUsing this logical, easy-to-understand and even simpler-to-implement concept, learn to master the art of MAXIMIZING RESULTS with MINIMUM EFFORT, and F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	01 avril 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814484558
Langue	English

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ON THE AUTHOR S PUBLISHED WORKS
The God of all things it is tough describing Mukul Deva.
- Business World
Deva has a Nostradamus touch.
- The Statesman
India s literary storm trooper.
- Business Standard
You can smell the gunpowder. Such is the power of the words of Mukul Deva India s first military action thriller writer.
- The Hindu
Here comes India s Clancy or Ludlum or Forsyth.
- Outlook
Mukul Deva wears the crown of India s premier military thriller writer with great skill and panache.
- www.indepepal.com
India finally has a writer of international caliber in the genre of military fiction.
- First City
Deva is a quintessential literary storm trooper his books are fast-paced thrillers that have broken new ground.
- Yuva

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National Library Board Singapore Cataloguing in Publication Data
Deva, Mukul, 1961-
F.C.U.K. your way to success : the art of maximizing results with minimum effort /
Mukul Deva. - Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2013.
pages cm
eISBN : 978 981 4484 55 8
1. Success in business. 2. Creative ability in business. I. Title.
HF5386
650.1 - dc23 OCN829883549
Printed in Markono Print Media Pte Ltd
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to those leaders who find it lonely at the top and are perpetually struggling to balance the needs of a dozen different stakeholders .
To those led, who are often ground to dust by (the above) harried, overworked and overwhelmed leaders .
And to those who are tired of on-demand business and want more on-demand life .
Stop stressing. Start living .
JUST F.C.U.K. YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS!
CONTENTS
Preface
About this Book
After the S.C.R.E.W.
Amazing Grace
The F.C.U.K.-ing Foundation
Inspiring and Empowering Conversations
The F.C.U.K.-ing Process
An Exemplary F.C.U.K.
F - Focus
C - Change
U - Uncover
K - Knowing
The F.C.U.K.-ing Boss
The Other F.C.U.K.
F.C.U.K.-ing the Boss
F.C.U.K. Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Reinforce the F.C.U.K.-ing Success
Go Forth and F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success
Acknowledgements
About the Author
PREFACE
Sometimes the story of how something happened (or was created) is as interesting as the thing itself. This is very true in the case of this book.
When Karen Leong, my co-director at Influence Solutions Pte Ltd, and I entered the Learning and Development (L D) arena, it did not take us long to realize that CHANGE and EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT were the two things that scared the hell out of many leaders, human resource (HR) and organizational development (OD) managers. These were the two words that we heard the most often, regardless of the country we were in or the industry we happened to be working with. We found that most leaders and organizations were struggling to cope with one or both of these issues.
Consequently, like any responsible L D company, we began to evolve solutions specifically to address these two pressing needs. As a result, we were soon helping people to S.C.R.E.W.M.E., that is, Support Change and Revitalize Engagement with Minimal Effort.
The S.C.R.E.W.M.E. workshops became so popular that not only were we running them almost every other week, I also began to write a book on this programme so that I could reach out and deliver the benefits to more people. That book ( S.C.R.E.W.M.E .) would have been out by now if Destiny hadn t delivered a twist in the tale and led me to write this one first. That is why in this book I talk about the S.C.R.E.W.M.E . book as though it has already been written, even though it will now come out at a later date.
You see, one day, whilst customizing the case studies for a S.C.R.E.W.M.E. programme that we had to deliver to the leaders of a bank, I was hit by a major realization. So simple and (perhaps that is why) so powerful was this realization that I was momentarily stunned. It did not take me long to confirm that it was a valid concept. That was my EUREKA moment.
So moved and excited was I by this realization that I almost did the Archimedes thing. Luckily, better sense prevailed and I contained my celebrations to the four walls of my apartment. I mean, Archimedes may have got away with running out of his bath (if legend is to be believed) but we must understand that the Greeks of yore probably followed a different set of moral standards. I have a sneaking suspicion that the police in Singapore would have taken a dim view of my running around the streets au naturel, which means naked for those of you whose French is like my Latin-rudimentary.
The next few weeks were lost in frantic thought and an outpouring of words, leading to the development of yet another L D solution. One that delivers the power of Break through Thinking to the way we lead, and are led. It not only transforms our lives but also the lives of those around us.
This solution (the Break through Thinker) delivered such transformational results that it soon became the lead product in our pack, and we were delivering it several times every month. Not only was it exceedingly impactful but companies also loved it because it could be delivered at an affordable price in short and sweet half-day formats, thus causing minimal disruption to the training and development (T D) budget and work schedules.
With every successive delivery, the Break through Thinker was fine-tuned, becoming simpler and even more powerful. It was from these numerous deliveries as well as the interaction with hundreds of leaders and executives that F.C.U.K. Your Way to Success came to life.
Mukul Deva
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In order to set the context straight, I believe there are a couple of things that need to be talked about before I show you how you too can F.C.U.K. your way to success.
First, the flippant tone and story format that I ve used in this book. I did this only because most L D books I have come across are pedantic and boring as hell. In fact, I find that to be true of most L D activities too. I have always wondered if this has anything to do with the belief that learning is a serious business. Indeed it is but there is no reason why it can t be fun as well.
Just because the subject (helping leaders lead more effectively and the led to be led more happily) is serious does not mean the tone should be too. On the contrary, I believe that when learning is fun, we tend to learn, retain and apply more. This is why I have deliberately used a tongue-in-cheek tone and approach in this book.
Second, there are those who have expressed dismay at the titles that I have chosen for some of my books. They accuse me of sensationalizing and titillating purely for commercial profit. To all such disbelievers and naysayers, all I would like to say is Since when is profit a bad word?
Though not at all unwelcome, forty pieces of silver today do not hold for me the same appeal they did when I was forty. Today, I am more aware that money has diminishing value-the more you have, the less you value it.
My reason for selecting such exciting titles is fairly simple. Given the preponderance of (easily aroused) baser instincts that abound in people, I realize that a titillating acronym like S.C.R.E.W.M.E. or F.C.U.K. is more memorable than something as obscure as BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) or BUFNA (I ve forgotten what this stands for see I told you that no one remembers the inane ones). I realized this when I summarized the Principles of War into my book S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E.: The Art of Corporate Warfare . The title not only made the book stand out on the bookshelves and generated sales, it also made it easy for people to remember the Principles of War, which is what the acronym stood for. This was also my realization while we were running the change and engagement workshops-people were so happily learning to S.C.R.E.W.M.E.
You see the point, I am sure. These titles are not an act of rebellion but of common sense, to ensure the process will be remembered by those seeking to make Break through Thinking a part of their lives.
Third, the topic at hand, namely Break through Thinking.
Country, race, religion and product notwithstanding, it is safe to say that most companies expend considerable time and money in developing their leaders and helping them lead more effectively. However, traditional thinking and leadership development will always yield traditional results only. And such results don t seem to be getting u