Chasing Daylight. How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (UK Edition): How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business)

by EugeneO'Kelly (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $13.77

  The international bestseller - Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. It's haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives: the brief time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves. Glimpse the strategies Gene embraced to accept and live the final stages of his life with vibrancy and calm - and what his preparations for death taught him about life. This paperback edition features a new foreword by his wife, Corinne O'Kelly and a readers' group guide and questions. A moving memoir - The Times. Challenging and thought-provoking - The Financial Times . [A] well-written and moving book. - The Economist.com. Voicing universal truths not often found in business or how-to tracts...[O'Kelly] made a success out of his final mission. - Janet Maslin, The New York Times .

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $5.54

  This book offers an honest and inspirational look at one man's struggle against the clock to understand the significance of his work and close the relationships in his life. At 53, Gene O'Kelly, the hard-driving CEO of KPGM, one of the world's top professional services firms, had it all - a string of career accomplishments, a loving family and a circle of friends among whom he counted the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet. Then Gene received news that would change everything. The diagnosis was late-stage brain cancer. The prognosis: six to eighteen months to live. Inspiring, passionate, profoundly insightful, Chasing Daylight is Gene O'Kelly's eloquent, at times searingly intimate reflections on life and death, success, and the search for meaning. Along the way, he offers his prescriptions for living a more vivid and fulfilling life, and for creating days that are filled with perfect moments.