Have you ever wondered why so few people achieve top success in their careers and in their lives?

The reason is simple: only about one per cent of working people...the really successful ones...learn to avoid certain critical yet common mistakes. They capitalize on the past experiences of others. The other 99 per cent unwittingly keep committing the same blunders, time after time, none the wiser.

You can be in that top one per cent. You can easily learn to avoid success-killing mistakes and turn your dreams of success into reality. This book can show you how.

In fact, this book can change your life, as it has done for countless others in languages throughout the world. Properly used this book, can show you how to win promotions and raises-- get around obstacles that hinder your progress-- win powerful business allies who will help you succeed-- gain the security and happiness from your work that you dream of.

For example, you’ll discover how to determine the future significance of everything you say and do-- how to understand and benefit from the motivations of the people you work with-- how to identify the people who can do the most to help you succeed, and get their help when you need it-- and much more.

The terse style of Success Simplified...every unnecessary word edited out...makes the reading fast-paced, no burden whatsoever on your time.

Best of all, you’ll discover that avoiding the 32 success-killing mistakes shown in these pages can really bring you riches, security, and happiness. So come on, join the one per cent.

Riley Conarroe learned some of the success lessons in this book from his own trial and error successes and failures. He learned others from the many highly successful men and women with whom he was fortunate enough to be associated during his varied working career. After years of apprenticeship as a business journalist he launched his own Madison Avenue public relations consulting firm. Over 20 years the firm gained national recognition for its successes with client companies of all sizes and types. Having achieved financial success he sold his business to devote himself to global peace programs: first Letters for Peace during the U.S.-U.S.S.R. nuclear arms race, and now Students’ Art for Peace which provides a means for children in different countries of the world to communicate with each other through their imaginative artwork. Says Riley, "Although my book has a business orientation, it is really a book of guides on successful living."

The book you are about to read tells you how to win maximum success in your job.

It comes to you from an author whose jobs have made him a modestly wealthy millionaire---modesty only because when I had earned what I considered to be enough money and success, I quit my jobs to devote myself to my many other interests.

This book is not a book just about financial success, although the gods know that making money---hopefully lots of it---is a vital part of every job.

It’s not a book just about job satisfaction, although once this book has helped you achieve a certain level of financial success and security, you will find that job satisfaction becomes an equally if not more important reason to work.

Beyond earning power and job satisfaction, this book deals with a world of elusive dynamics most people fail to consider or apply.

Most people, in fact, use only half of their innate talents in their jobs. Yes, they use their intelligence and dexterity, but they fail to consider that there is an art to job success as well. They fail to realize that spiritual wisdom---Zen---is at least as powerful as IQ.

We all have innate, if latent, artistic talents. Only about three percent of working people, however, use these precious talents to achieve success. An even smaller number enrich themselves in their jobs by adding their spiritual wisdom, their Zen, to their work.

On the following pages I have defined the words in the title of this book, plus a couple of others.

Here now, in the most concise, simple terms I know, is the A to Z, The Art to Zen, of winning maximum success in your job. The dynamics presented here will work for you whether you are someone’s employee or self-employed.

I am proud to offer you my new book, in this revised and expanded Internet Edition. I promise that you will profit by reading it. It will bring you success. I hope it will also bring you happiness.

Richard Riley Conarroe

Sarasota, Florida 1998