Excerpt From "Have The Attitude"

I wasn't even supposed to be there - it was just a total fluke. But there I was, getting out of my car at the mall shortly before noon on a weekday. I happened to look up into the sky, and at that very moment I witnessed the mid-air collision of two private airplanes. Four people died in that accident a few years ago. I had trouble stopping myself from thinking about what I had seen.

It was a few nights later when I had the dream. There was a group of people standing around an oval asphalt track. It looked like a track behind a high school where student athletes run, but this one was at a flight school and I was an instructor.

This particular flight school was different. It taught people how to fly without using an aircraft of any kind. The students were learning how to soar like birds. After some classroom instruction, everyone would go outside to this track. They would practice their takeoffs by running around the track until they reached a speed in which their feet would lift off the ground. It was so amazing and so profoundly inspirational to see.

As with any type of training, some people got the hang of it more quickly while others were slower to catch on - not that it really mattered either way. Some, however, became frustrated and wanted to quit, and still others thought it wasn't even possible to do in the first place. Hopelessness and discouragement quickly turned to amazement as people's feet actually lifted off the ground and they began to take flight. It was a phenomenal experience to witness these people's success!

About the Author

Renowned business author and keynote speaker Carol Quinn is the leading expert in understanding the common thread that all high performers share - The Attitude! In her previous book, Don't Hire Anyone Without Me! A Revolutionary Approach to Interviewing and Hiring the Best, Quinn helped employers improve their hiring by teaching them how they could better identify the true high achievers from those pretending to be.

Now she puts her knowledge and easy-to-read style to work on a more personal level, moving from Hiring The Attitude to Having The Attitude in this latest book. Quinn is president and founder of Hire Authority, Inc., a company that specializes in training interviewers. Her cutting-edge methodology involving Motivation-Based Interviewing was derived from her experience in interviewing thousands of applicants in corporate America.