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Becoming a superstar isn't about changing who you are; it is about changing what you do. That lesson is what Harvard psychologist Dr. Myra White learned from researching sixty people who became superstars in various career fields. White wanted to know how ordinary people achieve extraordinary success whereas others who are more gifted achieve only moderate success. Celebrity figures like Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs were everyday people earlier in their lives. What did they do that catapulted them to success? In The Superstar Roadmap: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Careers, White identifies the common steps that people who become superstars take to achieve exceptional success. She singles out the strategies and techniques that the rest of us can apply to our own lives to become more successful. The Harvard students she instructs in the ALM management program have testified that what she teaches in her classes and in her book have changed their lives and made them even more successful. The book can be enjoyed as a reference book and its chapters read in any particular order. Its doable steps and easy-to-implement actions can help readers be more successful at any junction in their career. To illustrate her points, White uses the characters in The Wizard of Oz to explain her points. Tin Man, who is always getting stuck, the Lion, who is afraid of everything, the Scarecrow, who is always falling apart, and naïve Kansas native Dorothy illustrate that anyone can become a superstar no matter how inept or unsure of themselves they feel. All they need they need to do is take the right steps. The book’s message is even more relevant in our shaky economy. Many people accustomed to success now find their careers are going nowhere or their field has dissolved. They are unsure how to proceed. The Superstar Roadmap shows that no matter who they are or what failures they have experienced in the past, they can still build successful and productive careers. The book’s strategies are based on interviews conducted with real superstars in their respective fields. It doesn’t ask the reader to be like these people; it asks them to learn from their examples, mimic their strategies, and follow the routes they took to success. White is a fine example of an ordinary woman forging an extraordinary career for herself. As a young teenager, she picked fruit on farms and gutted salmon on trawler boats to earn money. Once she entered college, she applied herself with a fantastic rigor, earning a master’s in engineering from Northwestern University and a law degree and a doctorate in psychology from Harvard University. These days, she is an internationally recognized authority on leadership and success factors. She speaks to audiences as far away as China, Brazil, and India and has appeared in The New York Times and Cosmopolitan.“Harvard psychologist Myra White has written an exceptionally engaging book that tells thestories of sixty people who became “superstars” and serves as a guide for successfully launchingor changing a career…A well conceived, well written self-help book, The SuperstarRoadmap will offer much inspiration and insight to all who read it.” – ForeWord Clarion Review