推荐本书 《Chasing daylight》追逐日光，以前Holly跟我推荐的。讲的是KPMG一位合伙人

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书名 追逐日光(珍藏版)(CHASING DAYLIGHT)
【丛书名】
【出版社】中信出版社
【作者】(美国)尤金·奥凯利 (美国)安德鲁·波兹曼 译者:蒋旭峰

【ISBN】9787508616162
【出版日期】2009-08-01
【印刷日期】
【装帧】平装
【开本】32
【字数】
【页数】231 页
【版次】
【印次】1
【内容简介】
时年53岁的尤金·奥凯利正处于人生和事业的巅峰。他担任着毕马威会计师事务所(KPMG)的董事长和首席执行官，这家公司也是全美最大的会计师事务所之一。他事业蒸蒸日上，生活美满，妻子、孩子、家庭和好友都让他感到欢欣愉悦。他也在脑中企划更美好的未来：准备下一次商务旅行，永续公司的长青基业，安排和妻子在一起的周末活动，参加女儿初二的开学仪式。
然而，仿似晴天霹雳，在2005年5月，尤金·奥凯利被诊断为脑癌晚期，最多还能活上3到6个月。命运就是这般无常。
他原本想象中的光明未来一下子就蒙上了阴影。他必须当机立断、改弦易辙，修改他原来的人生计划，拿出在高尔夫球场上为有多一点的打球时间而不时追逐日光的精神，好好把握住所剩无几的有生之日。
本书正是尤金·奥凯利人生最后旅程的告白。从得到确诊的消息到他辞世中间只有不到4个月，但是其中所记述的心路历程却让人久久难忘。
《追逐日光》饱含深情，记录下了尤金·奥凯利步向新生的每一天，写满了他幡然醒悟之后，对宿命不断深入的理解。中间记载了他与病魔抗争的点点滴滴，以及他对生与死、爱与成功、精神与人生价值的不断追思。
奥凯利生命最后时光的深刻感悟对所有职场人士不啻于是一记当头棒喝，人生不可以重来，不可以跳过，我们只能选择以一种最有意义的方式度过：活在当下，追逐日光！




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【目录】
第一章礼物从天而降
第二章坠入无尽深渊
第三章一去永不回
第四章如果还有明天
第五章最好的告别
第六章走向新生
后记追逐日光


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【作者介绍】
尤金·奥凯利，在纽约市出生和长大。1972年进入毕马威，担任助理会计师，经过30多年的努力，于2002年4月成为公司的首席执行官，并一直担任该职到2005年6月确诊前，后来保留了公司的资深合伙人一职。于2005年9月10日长眠于家中。

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�Must the end of life be the worst part?

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Can it be made the best?�

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At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, he enjoyed a successful career and drew happiness from his wife, children, family, and close friends. He was thinking ahead: the next business trip, the firm's continued success, weekend plans with his wife, his daughter's first day of eighth grade.

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Then in May 2005, Gene was diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer and given three to six months to live. Just like that.

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Now a growing darkness was absorbing the bright future he had seen for himself. He would have to change his plans, quickly, and capture what he could of his last diminishing days.

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Chasing Daylight is the account of his final journey. Starting from the time of his diagnosis and concluded upon his death less than four months later, this book is his unforgettable story.

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With startling intimacy, it chronicles the dissolution of Eugene O'Kelly's life and his gradual awakening to a more profound understanding. Interweaving unsettling details of his battle with cancer with his moment-to-moment reflections on life and death, love and success, spirituality and the search for meaning, it provides a testament to the power of the human spirit and a compelling message about how to live a more vivid, balanced, and meaningful life.

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Inspiring, passionate, deeply insightful, Chasing Daylight is a remarkable man's poignant farewell to a beloved world.

. . . . . (20060130)

编辑推荐
Amazon.com Review
As CEO at accounting giant KPMG, Eugene O'Kelly was so immersed in his job that over the course of a decade, he managed to have lunch with his wife on weekdays just twice. His travel schedule was set 18 months out. Once, he was so obsessed with impressing a potential client that he tracked down the man's travel schedule, booked the seat next to him on a flight, schmoozed the guy all the way to Australia, landed the account, and flew immediately back to Manhattan. His Type-A ways vanished when, at age 53, a top neurosurgeon in New York told him he had late-stage brain cancer. "His eyes told me I would die soon. It was late spring. I had seen my last autumn in New York."


There are no TV-movie-style miracle treatments or extensions of his life expectancy; he's told he has maybe 3 months, and he doesn't spend any energy hoping for a cure. True to his CEO style, he creates goals for himself, lists of friends to visit for the last time; he meditates; he tries to create as many "perfect Moments" that he can, during dinner or phone conversations with friends, and realized how rare those moments of connection and joy were in his "previous life." Chasing Daylight is as much a self-criticism of his job-before-family ways as it is a meditation on time and a transition to a tranquil, spiritual state utterly foreign to him as a CEO. O'Kelly's absolutely more fulfilled by the soul work that he finishes in 100 days, compared to his 30 years of corporate promotions and accolades, and he utterly convinces readers to ponder their own situation, whether "in the gloaming" of life as he was or not. --Erica Jorgensen



From Publishers Weekly
O'Kelly, the former CEO and chairman of accounting juggernaut KPMG who was diagnosed with brain cancer at 53, writes about his "forthcoming death" as one would expect an accountant to: methodically. He charts his downward spiral, from symptoms to diagnosis to the process of dying in this poignant and posthumously published book. (O'Kelly died in September 2005.) O'Kelly's narrative recounts the steps he took to simplify his life-how he learned, for instance, "to be in the present moment, how to live there at least for snippets of time"-and the final experiences he shared with close friends and family. But his story falters on several occasions. O'Kelly provides few substantial details regarding his long career with KPMG; what information he does offer, and his wishes for the firm's continued success, read like portions of a company newsletter. He also refers constantly to his "wife of 27 years, Corinne, the girl of my dreams," but he fails to give readers a sense of her spirit and personality. (She wrote the final chapter, which takes place largely in the hospital as O'Kelly refuses food and water, eventually dying of an embolism.) Nor do readers learn much of O'Kelly's 14-year-old daughter, other than she's bright and he loves her. Though less than perfect, O'Kelly's examination of the life he lived and the opportunities he missed while climbing the corporate ladder will resonate with readers in "foot to the pedal" careers.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
Even In Death,Gene O' Kelly Wanted To Succeed When the CEO of KPMG learned he had terminal brain cancer, he set out to chronicle his last days In the spring of 2004, Eugene O'Kelly had a premonition: Trouble was coming. He couldn't make out its shape or size, and the only response he could think of was to move from the townhouse in Manhattan he shared with his wife, Corinne, and their 12-year-old daughter, Gina, to a smaller apartment in the city. At the time, O'Kelly was chairman and chief executive of KPMG International, the accounting firm where he had worked for three decades. He was 52, at the peak of his career, feeling, as he would later say, "vigorous, indefatigable, and damn near immortal." A year later he and Corinne had sold their house and most of their furniture and found a light-filled aerie overlooking the East River. Around the same time, Corinne noticed that the right side of her husband's face was sagging. He agreed to see a neurologist after he returned from a business trip to China by way of Seattle, where he would attend the Microsoft CEO Summit. Back in Manhattan the weekend before his appointment, he and Corinne were at a U2 concert with longtime clients when suddenly Corinne bolted from her seat. "I feel like our world is about to blow apart," she told her husband. Within a week, Gene was diagnosed with inoperable late-stage brain cancer and, though no doctor would come right out and say so, he knew he couldn't expect to live past the summer. He died at home on Sept. 10. During those 100 days he worked with his wife and writer Andrew Postman to chronicle his attempt to face death with as much brightness, if not hope, as possible. Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life was published this month by McGraw-Hill, which, like BusinessWeek, is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The book wasn't intended as a guide, Corinne says, but Gene was a mentor, and that instinct remained intact. His advice is simple: Confront your own mortality, sooner rather than later. As he says: "I'll be glad if my approach and perspective might provide help for a better death -- and for a better life right now." Gene was methodical, organized, unequivocating, thorough. He was an accountant by temperament as much as by training. Faced with imminent death, he wanted to be the master of his farewell. "I wanted these things, and only these things: Clarity. Intensity. Perfection... I was motivated to 'succeed' at death -- that is, to try to be constructive about it, and thus have the right death for me. To be clear about it and present during it. To embrace it." In early June he resigned from KPMG, started six weeks of radiation treatment to try to shrink the three tumors and diminish the symptoms (blurred vision, garbled speech, and certain cognitive impairments) that had begun to emerge. And he made a to-do list for his final days: get legal and financial affairs in order, unwind relationships, simplify, live in the moment, create (but also be open to) great moments, begin transition to next state, plan funeral. He recognized how Type A this was, yet what it required of him was the very opposite -- to let go. As he says: "While I do believe that the business mindset is, in important ways, useful at the end of life, it sounds pretty weird to try to be CEO of one's own death... Given the profoundness of dying, and how different its quality felt from the life I led, I had to undo at least as many business habits as I tried to maintain." With Corinne's guidance he began to meditate in the morning to help develop the mental discipline they both believed he would need in those last moments of life. It was on one of those mornings, when he had been sitting in the courtyard of the Cloisters, a museum of medieval art in Upper Manhattan, with a fountain running in the background, that he told her he wanted the two of them to write a book about his dying. SPIRITUAL JOURNEY Corinne says now that she was initially ambivalent about the idea: At the time she was managing Gene's medical care, meeting with lawyers, concerned about Gina and their elder daughter, Marianne. She knew the project would sap Gene's energy. But he wanted to share what he called his spiritual journey, and he wanted to leave his daughters something. "The last gift I could give him was to let him do it his way and to make his dying as beautiful as possible," Corinne says, sitting in the living room she has only recently furnished. From that moment in the Cloisters until the last week of his life, Gene wrote down his thoughts on a yellow legal pad or dictated them to his assistant. He worked intermittently throughout the day while also meeting with colleagues, friends, and family to, as he says, close their relationships. He also kept in touch with the new chairman of KPMG by phone. That summer the firm would admit to criminal tax fraud and agree to pay $456 million in penalties, a settlement that he had been working on. (He would say to Corinne: "This can't be another Enron.") Corinne says the fact that the case had been resolved helped Gene die peacefully. At KPMG one of Gene's priorities had been to change the firm's culture -- to make it more compassionate, a place where, he would later say, "we felt more alive." He wanted his staff "to get the most out of each moment and day -- for the firm's benefit and the individual's -- and not just pass through it." But as the head of the 20,000-employee company, he had remained relentlessly focused on the future, willing to sacrifice his home life for the satisfactions of the job. In those last few months, though, he came to realize, he says, that his thinking had been too narrow, his boundaries too strict. "Had I known then what I knew now," he says, "almost certainly I would have been more creative in figuring out a way to live a more balanced life, to spend more time with my family." That, says Corinne, was his one regret. He had been getting better at finding that balance before he became sick, she says, but then he ran out of time. Business Week 20060227 "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 The New York Times 20060130

Review

"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. (The New York Times )

人一生中会碰到很多人，有的人只是短暂出现然后消失，但有的人和他身上发生的事，却和你永远陪伴。
奥凯利先生2004年和2005年与我有两次见面，后一次见面时，我俩都不知其实他已身患癌症。他对中国和对自己工作的热爱，使我们的心贴得很近，而此时，他已踏上“追逐日光”的感人征途。
这本书让我看到了奥凯利先生在面对生命结束时，他心中挥之不去的美国风景。
　　——刘明康 中国银行业监督管理委员会主席
尤金对生命的热爱，对家庭的重视，对事业的投入，从《追逐日光》一书中，我们是完全可以感受到的，在尤金得知病情前的一星期，他来到中国北京，出版《财富》全球论坛，当时他已获选为下任毕马威的全球主席。
会计师这个行业的个中滋味不是一般业外人士可以感悟到的。我们常常面对的是多不胜数的“最后期限”。也许我们工作最大的挑战就是要尽一切努力在这些“最后期限”前完成我们的任务。尤金就是以这种态度面对他生命的“最后期限”。
　　——何潮辉 毕马威主席（中国和香港特别行政区）
一个感人和难以置信的故事。
尤金·奥凯利在生命的最后100天里，微笑、愉悦地燃尽了自己的光和热，他追逐日光的勇气和行为，令人无比敬佩、赞叹不已。他饱含深情的文字，让我们看到一个成功商业领袖和拥有丰富精神生活的普通人的灵魂之旅，他表现出的淡定、坚强和对人生的体悟，会给每一位读者带来鼓舞和力量。
尤金喜欢工作，喜欢高尔夫，他在追逐曝光的余晖中，打出了自己辉煌的标准杆。
每一位企业家都应该读读此书。
　　——常振明 中国中信集团副董事长、总经理
只有100天的生命里，我的最优先是什么？怎么样做我一直想做但还没有来得及做的事？怎么样帮助我亲爱的人，准备接受我的离开？尤金·奥凯利的自述，非常感人，也发人深省。我们偶尔思考这些问题，会对我们自己人生的目标和意义，有更深刻的定位、了解和谁知。
　　——刘遵义 香港中文大学校长

文摘

第一章 礼物从天而降
我真的很幸运。医生说我还能再活3个月。
这两句话放在一起说，你肯定以为我要不是在开玩笑，要不就是疯了；或者你会以为我的人生肯定很凄凉，一事无成，所以我恨不得早一点离开人世，好得以解脱。
其实，你没有猜对。我热爱自己的生活，深爱我的家人，喜欢我的朋友，执著于自己的事业。我所供职的公司是一家具有全球战略眼光的企业，我也很爱打高尔夫球。我现在很清醒，并不是在开玩笑。2005年5月的最后一周，我收到了人生的一纸书，说我可能活不到女儿吉娜初二开学的那一天了，也就是说，活不过9月的第一周了。不过，这份宣判书后来却成了一份礼物。这可是我的真心话。
因为这份礼物的降临，我不得不去认真地思考死亡的意义，也不得不更深刻地去反思生命的内涵——我从前并没有这样反省过。尽管我心中满是痛楚，我也必须要正视已经走到生命尽头的事实，必须要决定该如何度过这最后的100天（有可能多活几周，也有可能少活几周）。痛下决心之后，我还得鞭策自己依照这些决定去行事。
简而言之，我自己要回答下面两个问题：
第一，人生的尽头非得是最灰暗的吗？第二，能不能给生命的最后岁月添上一些亮色，甚至让它成为人生最美妙的时光呢？
在我看来，第一个问题的答案是否定的，而第二个问题的答案是肯定的。在我走向人生尽头之时，我的神智依然清楚，身体状况还算不错，我所爱的人也都陪伴在我身边。
因此我说：自己真的很幸运。
当然，很少有人能在离开人世之前参透自己的死亡。在我接到死亡判决书之前，我也没有真正去思考过。谈到死神，人们往往会感到惶恐不安。即便是行将就木之人，也不会把人生最后的每一天都安排得井井有条，也很难为了自己和家人而沿着既定的方向坚定地走下去。将要辞世者尚且如此，身强体健和欢欣愉悦之人就更别提了。有些人之所以没有考虑死亡，是因为死亡往往来得太突然，让人感到措手不及。很多人就这样离开了人世，比如死于车祸的意外罹难者，他们根本就没有想到死神会从天而降。我虽然会过早地离开人世（接到死亡判决书时我才53岁），但却称不上突然（无论如何，如果能提前两周接到死亡判决书，就已经不算突然了）。我很清楚，自己的人生会在2005年画上句号。
有些人之所以无法静下心来思考如何让最后的人生变得尽善尽美，是因为临终前他们早已身心俱疲，人生的尽头也失去了原有的色彩，他们最关心的是如何缓解痛苦。
我可不是这样，我并没有受过什么太大的皮肉
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