Sink, Float or Swim

Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel are fun to read, smart, unpretentious and well-informed. They may repeat the personality types they frame their book around a little too often and seem a little too proud of these somewhat obvious archetypes, but they present their useful, applicable life guidance with contagious enthusiasm. 

Peltin and Rippel divide the business world’s employees and executives into “sinkers, floaters” or “swimmers.” Sinkers’ jobs crush them daily. They work hard but never work smart. They are constantly tired. Floaters are the kings and queens of mediocrity. They hover in place, lacking the willpower, energy and necessary strategic skills to move ahead in their work and their personal lives. They make little effort to acquire these skills.