Written by mentee and successful entrepreneur Eric Sinoway, Howard\`s Gift offers Stevenson\`s timeless lessons on life and career.Full of personal and professional insight, this guide presents a series of thirteen strategies that can be applied to professional decisions on any scale. Stevenson’s lessons include: Recognize inflection points: Learn to see and act on career-and-life-changing opportunities Start at the end: Think carefully about your long-term goals, rather than cobbling together your life from short-term achievements Is the juice worth the squeeze? Ask whether the effort you devote to one area of your life justifies the sacrifice of effort in another area Cheating at Solitaire: Don’t set goals and expectations unless or until you have developed the skill, talent, and knowledge to achieve them Plan for the ripple, not the splash: Understand that imme-diate decisions and actions are not as powerful as lasting ones