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Purpose
To provide a summary of self‐help texts and ideas drawn from a range of self‐help and “how to” books.
Design/methodology/approach
Material subdivided into the ten most common (agreed) ideas for self‐improvement.
Findings
The advice is sound (common sense?) but applying it is not easy.
Research limitations/implications
The material used is often subjective and anecdotal.
Practical implications
If readers apply the principles they will experience direct benefits.
Originality/value
That there is a consistency of advice from all sorts of sources as to how to be more effective, whatever the task that confronts one.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2005
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