The document outlines the importance of various functional areas in achieving career success, with marketing/sales being the most significant. It emphasizes the value of visibility and personal traits such as integrity and intelligence in enhancing an executive's success. Additionally, it encourages the pursuit of dreams and personal growth as essential elements for a fulfilling life and career.

2. MAPPING YOUR LIFE

3. FUNCTIONAL AREA NAMED AS FASTEST ROUTE TO THE TOP Today Ten years from Now Marketing/Sales 34% 27% Finance/Accounting 25% 21% General Management 24% 43% Professional/Technical 7% 13% Production/Manufacturing 5% 5% International 1% 4% Personnel 1% 1%

4. IMPORTANCE OF VISIBILITY AS A FACTOR IN SUCCESS AS RATED BY SENIOR EXECUTIVES Least Important 2.3% Limited Importance 6.9% Moderate Importance 27.5% Significant Importance 48.3% Most Important 15.0% 100.0%

5. HAPPINESS AND IMPROVEMENT PROMOTE JOY AND HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE AS WELL AS THOSE YOU WORK WITH.

6. ENERGY LIKEABILITY INTELLIGENCE INTEGRITY DRIVE COMMUNICATOR ASSERTIVENESS Personality Traits

7. TRAITS SAID TO HAVE GREATEST IMPORTANCE IN ENHANCING AN EXECUTIVE’S CHANCES FOR SUCCESS % of times cited as primary factor by 1362 CEOs

8. CONCEPTUAL SKILLS INTERPERSONAL TECHNICAL SKILL GROWTH GRID TOP MIDDLE FIRST LINE

9. ELEMENTS NAMED AS MAJOR COMPONENTS OF SUCCESS

10. Inspiration Thoughts “ Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from Mediocre minds.” Einstein “ Words inspire hearts, action direct hands”. “ He who favour learning and the learned God will favour him in the next world”. Hadith “ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”. MacArthur When you kill somebody’s good idea you kill a little of that person too!

11. Dare to Change your Life It gives a path to follow as a light-beam Take your dreams seriously Never say it is too late Conquer your mountains in stages Recognize your trade offs Be willing to change Don’t take No for an answer

12. What Do Dreams Do? It gives a path to follow as a light-beam People who have never dreamed They live depressed and degraded Dreams are seeds They are precursors to deeds Dreams get you started, they get you through Life’s rough and tough phases, which happen too When old dreams lose their attraction Find new ones and find new motivation Dreams do become reality When you assume a doer quality Dreams are magic greater than voodoo They make you want to do, what you need to do Mothers and teachers please teach every child this Dreams do come true if dedication is not amiss So what do dreams do They give you a reasons to do To live to aspire, to be true To the potential God has given you. Rashid Sultan