Achievers

Johnson, former vice-chairman of New York Life Insurance Co., offers a concise self-help guide to the art of applied business practices stressing how to use personal traits. Citing examples, he demonstrates how to develop and coordinate qualities and techniques that determine success, qualities such as intelligence, drive and the ability to set and achieve realistic goals through hard work. Breed good physical and mental habits, he advises, and cultivate self-confidence by training your memory, improving speaking and writing skills, dressing well. Empathy and friendship, suggests the author, can also be nurtured to good advantage. Above all, he urges, learn to control stress and take time to think creatively. (January 7)