The Way of the Road Warrior: Lessons in Business and Life from the Road Most Traveled | 
| Author: Robert L. Jolles
Creator: F. W. Sanzenbacher
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 244524
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0787980625
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.2
EAN: 9780787980627
ASIN: 0787980625
Publication Date: October 24, 2005
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The Way of the Road Warrior offers weary business travelers inspiration, advice, and practical skills for conquering the competition while conducting business on the road. This business traveler’s handbook is written by Robert L. Jolles—salesman, consultant, professional speaker, and veteran “Road Warrior” who has logged more than twenty years and two million miles in the air. In The Way of the Road Warrior, he delves into his personal journal and wealth of experience to offer insights on the sometimes difficult balancing act between work, travel, and family. Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote, “The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.” In these pages, readers will find that a chance conversation with a cab driver can be as valuable as a sit-down with a CEO. Jolles also speaks to the dangerous and addictive aspects of business travel and doesn’t sugarcoat the toll it takes on those who wait at home. From beginning to end, The Way of the Road Warrior will teach you why business travel isn’t just a way to do your job, but a warrior’s path to insight, wisdom, and so very much more.
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The Way of the Road Warrior offers weary business travelers inspiration, advice, and practical skills for conquering the competition while conducting business on the road. This business traveler's handbook is written by Robert L. Jolles salesman, consultant, professional speaker, and veteran Road Warrior who has logged more than twenty years and two million miles in the air. In The Way of the Road Warrior, he delves into his personal journal and wealth of experience to offer insights on the sometimes difficult balancing act between work, travel, and family. Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote, The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. In these pages, readers will find that a chance conversation with a cab driver can be as valuable as a sit-down with a CEO. Jolles also speaks to the dangerous and addictive aspects of business travel and doesn't sugarcoat the toll it takes on those who wait at home. From beginning to end, The Way of the Road Warrior will teach you why business travel isn't just a way to do your job, but a warrior's path to insight, wisdom, and so very much more.
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Superb reflections on the highs and lows of the business travelers April 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For anyone who travels for a living or takes business trips. This is a fantastic book filled with insight, poignancy, humor and wisdom. Robert Jolles is a self-employed consultant and trainer who has earned his stripes, not to mention frequent flyer miles.
Anyone who has been degraded by what passes as airline "service" (an oxymoron?) these days, will relate. Yet, the book is not a diatribe on airline imbecility. It is a rumination on the highs and lows of business travel and how it can become a dysfunctional addiction that ravages one's soul and family.
The kind of book I was sad to see end - the ultimate compliment a reader can pay!
The Road Warrior Guru June 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read Rob's book cover to cover on a flight from the east coast to the west. There are more pages "dogearred" than I have ever folded before. Rob understands, speaks from the heart and has a genuine, sincere interest in helping people improve their lives. One idea I implemented immediately. I blocked out all three of our children's birthdays on the calendar as non-travel days. This book is a keeper and must-have for anyone who practically lives on the road!
Highly recommended for everyone who travels, and everyone who doesn't February 26, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an extraordinarily personal book. Within the first dozen pages, Author Rob Jolles has shared moments of extreme personal embarrassment with us, gently encouraging us to laugh with him rather than at him. And later on, he shares very personal issues like losing confidence in himself, and going through emotional slumps, as well as showing times when he behaved less than perfectly to other people.
However, although the book is written in the first person (ie 'I') form, it isn't a self-centered ego-trip of a book. Rob's humanity, kindness, and concern for his reader glows through every page. One can't help but feel a tremendous respect for him, and one quickly comes to appreciate Rob's generous sharing of his own problems - something he has done in the hope we can learn from his own challenges and how he confronted and resolved them
In addition to helpful hints about travel and business in general, the book goes well beyond the obvious, giving advice on issues such as how to keep on keeping on even when afflicted by illness, pain, grief or depression, and touches on surprising topics such as the addiction to travel which some people end up experiencing (often without consciously realizing this).
Truly, there's something in this book for all of us, whether we travel or not.
Life Changing Book!!! A Must Read!!! January 10, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been a road warrior for many years. I work for a sports agency and I spend many nights and weeks away from my family. I have risen very high in my profession and I think I could go higher. I had also forgotten what was important. Robert Jolles helped remind me. The book starts a funny, witty series of tales about lessons learned on the road. It was wonderful up to this point and I was already happy I read it. Then I reached the part about overcoming the addiction to travel. I realized that this book was speaking to people like me. I have since started traveling less and spending more time with my family. Robert Jolles has truly changed my life and I can't thank him enough for writing this. I recommend this to anybody, anywhere who travels. There are so many wonderful lessons in this book. A must read for all of us road warriors!!!
 A great read for your next trip! October 29, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
The cover and title of this book grabbed my attention, so I adopted it for my next cross-country flight (one of many as a frequent business traveler). I can honestly say my trip passed quickly and pleasantly, as I couldn't put the book down. Jolles' humor hit home; his life lessons mixed in with business tips were not necessarily ground-breaking, but they were enlightening from his Road Warrior perspective. I found chapters 8 "Finding the Positives," 10 "The Way of Technology," and 4 "Workflow" most helpful. The final two chapters were sobering, made me think hard about the affect my business travel has on my family. There are only 2 criticisms I might submit, minor ones: the first couple chapters come across as a bit 'light weight' so you might give up on finishing the book, which would be a mistake; second, there are few if any positive references to females in his book (save to his wife, some stereotypical flight attendants, an overworked hotel maid, and to a not-so-pleasant ice-queen manager) -- while I am not what would be considered a raging feminist, I would have enjoyed reading some positive entries about businesswomen in Jolles' journal entries. WAY OF THE ROAD WARRIOR is still well worth the read, and it really made me yearn to attend one of his amazing seminars.
This sales director recommends Jolles' latest book for all fellow road warriors and their families.
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