Are you stuck in a career rut? Are your former peers progressing ahead of you? Are you doing all the hard work but getting none of the rewards? Are you wondering what everyone else seems to know that you don't? Asking for a promotion ranks high on the list of life's most anxiety-inducing activities. Putting yourself out there to higher-ups can be intimidating, and competition can be fierce, especially in the current economic climate. And, of course, what if they say no? But it's also one of the most important things you can do for your career. If you want to move forward in your company or field, promotions are part of the game and they won't just be handed to you - you have to work - and ask - for them. Ready to take that next step? Penguin Experts Series: Get Promoted will give you everything you need to know before the big conversation.
Are you considering moving jobs? Do you want to stay in the same school or take the plunge and move to a different one? More important, are you determined to have the edge on the other applicants? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you. Tom Miller provides practical guidance to the key steps of getting promoted, such as impressing your superiors, writing a CV and covering letter and answering the really tough interview questions.
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation’s president—will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do—why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.
If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school’s motto, you need power. Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don’t blame the tool for how some people used it. If fully understood and harnessed effectively, power skills and understanding become the keys to increasing salaries, job satisfaction, career advancement, organizational change, and, happiness. In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social science research, Pfeffer’s 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance. The 7 rules are: 1) Get out of your own way. 2) Break the rules. 3) Show up in powerful fashion. 4) Create a powerful brand. 5) Network relentlessly. 6) Use your power. 7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both. With 7 Rules of Power, you’ll learn, through both numerous examples as well as research evidence, how to accomplish change in your organization, your life, the lives of others, and the world.
From house author and popular management trainer, Harry Chambers, comes a paperback original for ambitious individuals who aspire to achieve growth, development, and promotability in their current job. Chambers dispels the modern day myth that “the only way to move up is to move out,” and provides a wide array of hands-on strategies and tactics to analyze today's promotional realities, obtain critical skills, recognize internal and external obstacles, and position yourself for success. Drawing from original interview research with managers and trainers in a wide array of industries, Getting Promoted shows workers at all levels how to focus on the most promotable skills, manage perceptions of colleagues and bosses, avoid promotion-killing behaviors, and assess the competitive landscape.
America’s safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow—the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last 25 years. For millions of working families achieving basic middle class comforts has begun to seem as distant a dream as winning the lottery. What is needed, and what veteran organizer and ACORN founder Wade Rathke provides in this hard-hitting new book, is a comprehensive grassroots strategy to create what he calls citizen wealth: an enduring foundation on which working people can build a future that extends beyond paying next month’s rent. Rathke shares breakthrough strategies that have enabled ACORN and other organizations help people secure the basics of citizen wealth—a house and a decent income—offering from-the-trenches advice on mounting successful living wage campaigns, battling unscrupulous and predatory lending practices, and developing new forms of worker organizations to protect wages and benefits. The anti-poverty programs still out there can provide critical support for citizen wealth-building efforts, but they’re woefully underutilized. Rathke shows how to cut through government indifference and bureaucratic obstacles to provide those in need with access to these vital resources. But community organizations can’t do it alone. Rathke describes ACORN partnerships with HSBC Bank and H & R Block that helped these businesses see building citizen wealth as a new market opportunity—a win for them and for the people they once exploited. And he looks at other examples of strange bedfellows in the fight for citizen wealth, including Citibank, once the target of massive protests by ACORN and now, working with them, a major investor in working class communities. “We need to create a national economic and political consensus that increasing family income, wealth and assets is not `welfare’ or an entitlement ‘give-away” program but an investment in the public good and well-being.” Rathke writes. Based on forty years of hard-won experience, Wade Rathke offers a new blueprint for helping millions to achieve the American Dream.
Maximize your chances to get promoted to the executive level As predictable career paths have become extinct in most organizations, managers aspiring to the C-level job are left to their own devices to determine how to advance their careers. Even in companies committed to talent development, guidance to aspiring executives is often vague and contradictory. This happens, executive coach John Beeson argues, because executive promotions are made based on the decision makers' intuitive sense of whether or not a manager can succeed at higher levels within the organization. Beeson decodes these leadership criteria--the unwritten rules--that companies use to make decisions about who gets promoted and who doesn't, and identifies the six core "selection factors" that are imperative for success at the executive level Demonstrating strategic skills Building a strong management team Managing implementation Exhibiting the capacity for innovation and change Working across organizational boundaries Projecting executive presence Filled with stories of managers who successfully climbed up the executive ladder-and some who struggled-The Unwritten Rules is an invaluable resource for aspiring executives.
PROMOTED: The Proven Career Acceleration Formula To Reach The Top Without Working Harder Or Playing Office Politics Would you like to make $10,000 more next year? How about $20,000... $30,000? Do you want to be mentored by VP''s, CEO''s and former CEO''s? Do you want to have hiring managers and top recruiters fighting over you? Can you afford 10 minutes a day to get promoted in 12 months? Do you want these results without having to be a sleazy networker or play office politics? Have you ever wondered why, despite doing what you consider to be the "right things" in your career, you''re not achieving the results you know you deserve? In his highly-anticipated book, PROMOTED: The Proven Career Acceleration Formula To Reach The Top Without Working Harder Or Playing Office Politics, you''ll learn Bozi''s unconventional strategy to get you the career results you have always desired. His unique Career Acceleration Formula is the only strategy out there today that''s helped unemployed graduates get their dream job and helped grizzled corporate veterans reignite their career. Advancing your career is SIMPLE if you have a proven strategy, a formula you can use over and over again. Inside PROMOTED, Bozi shares the exact, step-by-step strategy that he used to achieve his amazing results, and that he teaches to top executives around the globe. As your trusted mentor, Bozi spotlights what you''ve been doing wrong, and he''ll shatter some of your most cherished beliefs about your career. Then get ready for the magic. Along your career acceleration journey, you''ll learn: Why entering the 10% club and leaving the 90% crowd behind is the only way to be immune from changing market conditions. How a conventional approach will get conventional results, but an unconventional strategy will yield unconventional results. The traits companies are looking for in their top employees. The 6-step strategy to promotion, a system that''s helped thousands of students obtain the career success they''ve always desired (using the Career Acceleration Formula, which is Mindset x Value x Leverage). How adapting a Career Fast Track Mindset will give you an unfair advantage over everyone else, increase the value you bring to your organization, and increase your career acceleration leverage. The importance of having an influential person as your mentor. Specific case studies from Bozi''s students who have implemented his strategies, only to achieve their own meteoric results. PROMOTED is for you if: You are an ambitious professional working for a medium or large-sized organization and you are failing to progress in your career at the pace you want. You want to advance your career and are tired of being left behind. You are tired of having your career stall, of seeing others in your organization pass you by You want to rapidly advance your career, kick-start your success, and are willing to put in a little bit of work to make it happen. You are ready and willing to take action and implement what you learn. By following traditional career advice, you''re missing out on 70% of available jobs out there, and competing with 90% of job candidates for the left over 30% of the jobs. Make the decision to take action right now, change your situation, not procrastinate anymore about your career, hoping that you''ll finally land that promotion you''ve been working towards for years. Instead you can identify your perfect job role, and take massive action obtain it within 6-12 months. PROMOTED will help get you there. Bozi''s career acceleration formula is used by thousands of achievers from 20+ countries, working for companies like Google, Cisco, JP Morgan & Ford.
Tired of getting nowhere fast? J.R. Oram breaks down the do's and don'ts of career advancement and income increases. After all, it's all about the money...
