How To Be Moderately Successful: Career Acceleration For Realists

by Matthias Mahr

Overview

Do you want to be a billionaire? Become famous? Go to the moon?

This isn't that kind of book. Instead, define your own version of success and get there faster. Whether you're starting out, stuck in the middle, or ready for a career change: this is your smart, hands-on guide to steady progression and a healthy work-life balance.

Drawing on 25 years of experience at Boston Consulting Group, eBay, Eurostar and Trainline - and hundreds of coaching conversations - it offers straightforward advice with clear takeaways using fun, relatable stories.

From building your personal brand to managing your boss, overcoming setbacks to getting promoted, each standalone chapter has an action to try out straight away, so you can build momentum with confidence.

Written with warmth, wit and zero corporate jargon, this is the career development book for anyone who wants to level up without burning out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781068218477
Publisher:	Maygood Publishing
Publication date:	06/18/2025
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, I moved to the UK for undergrad studies in 1994 and since then have lived in Paris, Boston and London. I have an MA from Cambridge University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and spent 6 years in strategy consulting before moving into senior commercial roles. Highlights include starting the new London-Amsterdam service for Eurostar and more recently building Trainline's non-UK business by shuttling between Paris, Milan and Barcelona. Now based in South-West London, I'm head chef for my wife Abi and my kids Claudia (17) and Tobi (14) while also trying to stay fit through orienteering, running and football refereeing - unless of course I'm off on yet another trip to somewhere new.I truly hope that my book will help accelerate your career, or at least leave you with some thought-provoking ideas. Oh, and that you have a bit of fun along the way. Otherwise, what's the point?