Featured Articles on Barbara Sher
New York Times Obituary
Published May 27th 2020
Are you a scanner?
Motivation and Success Strategies
Putty Like: on Scanners
Everyone’s Got Many Interests…How Are We Not ALL Scanners?
Sher Book Recommendation
Book Recommendation from Thinking Directions
Mademoiselle
"It is the teams that distinguish this program from the rest. They carry the Success Teams system beyond apparently similar time-managment courses, creativity-training seminars and positive-thinking programs that furnish their participants with all sorts of good ideas and techniques, then turn them loose to struggle on--and often fall flat on their faces--alone. The Success Team, Barbara Sher's brainstorm, is everything your family should have been and probably wasn't."
New Woman
“The purpose is also to be a resource bank to each other--a purpose brilliantly demonstrated by the sparks that fly and the connections that click in the seminar as a whole."
The Boston Phoenix
"...The Success Teams seminar trains people to set goals for themselves and guides them through the thorny process of achievement. They learn no-nonsense techniques--flow charts, diagrams of time and plans and accountability systems."
The Chicago Reader
"The most valuable part of the program, the concept that is unique to Sher's system, is the network of helping hands...It's refreshing to see people leading cheers for each other, and that enthusiasm can be infectious."
The Village Voice
"...a psychic block party. Success Teams work."
Oprah Article
What's Holding You Back from Making Your Dream a Reality?
Review: Refuse to Choose
Miss Known Review
Medium: Article on Wishcraft
Barbara Sher’s Old School and ahead-of-its-time “wishcraft”
What Would Your Ideal Day Look Like?
Lessons from Barbara Sher on Get a Life PHD
Additional Articles and Quotes
The New York Times
"...With the team on your side it makes sense to shoot for the big stakes--and in practice it seems to work, judging by talks with members on the teams now operating.
USA Today
“Career counsellor Sher doesn’t take anyone’s dreams lightly. “Don’t think about your skills, think about what you love”, she says.”
The Chicago Sun Times
"With the team you've got the kind of machinery that keeps going whether you are on or off...This makes Sher's system different from all the other assertiveness and success seminars floating around, practicing versions of pop psychology."
Viva
"...The Success Teams system offers an individually tailored goal-defining experience that is no more like today's typical, banal career seminar than pink is like scarlet. If we want big things for ourselves but are unsure of what these things are or how to acquire them, Barbara Sher offers answers."