Book Overview

More Than Money guides you through four essential questions and twelve lifelines that will help you examine your life and find your path of service and fulfillment. I don’t expect you to connect with every lifeline or story, but I’m sure you’ll find plenty of stories and “sticky” questions embedded in the text to help you construct your destiny plan.

Setting a foundation for the four questions, the Introduction holds a mirror up to your business school experiences. Drawing on hundreds of questions raised at my school sessions and thousands of e-mails I’ve received over the past two decades, I offer something you’ve probably never seen before: I paint a picture of your challenges, anxieties, pressures, and options, understanding that no one size fits all. Ideally, this portrait will help you to rethink your risk-reward perceptions and how the MBA environment affects those perceptions.

Chapters 1 through 4 present the four chapter title questions and twelve lifelines. The four questions are (1) “Who are you?”; (2) “What do you want?”; (3) “What can you do?”; and (4) “Where are you going?” It is important to read these chapters in order. Most of you start your life at question 3, “What can you do?” rather than asking more reflective questions of yourself first—”Who are you?” and “What do you want?” Without that knowledge, how can you construct an authentic personal compass for a career path, no less a destiny path?

Each chapter offers three lifelines. These lifelines are intended as guidelines for your life that will keep you from drowning—from getting off course. As I mentioned, the first two chapters (the first six lifelines) are internally focused to help you learn more about yourself. To translate the first six into a destiny path requires that you explore the next six externally focused lifelines, too.

Here’s each lifeline with a description: