How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep: The Insider's Guide to Being #1 in the Workplace

by Connie Podesta

Book Overview

Providing you with the key high-performance traits that really count in the workplace, How To Be The Person Successful Companies Fight To Keep takes you behind the scenes, into the boardrooms and offices of more than 300 business owners, CEOs, managers, and human resources directors.

How To Be The Person Successful Companies Fight To Keep is an essential survival manual for employees today, offering the inside scoop on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684840081
• ISBN13: 9780684840086
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Still an excellent and appropriate read!

This book applies to 2009 as much as it did to 1997 when it was written. A must read for everyone - staff and employees alike.

Excellent

This is an awesome book. In clearly gives examples of how different employees are perceived and gives examples of how behavior and attitude changes can change your career or even save it if they are making cuts. Many of us go to work with poor attitudes or think we are giving 100% and no one appreciates it. This book explains how you may think you are giving 100% and not getting any mileage out of it because no one notices, or because you have serious deficiencies in other areas, so it doesn't matter how good you are elsewhere. It helps you get out of the "I'm a victim at work, no one appreciates me, they are out to screw everyone, blah blah blah" mindset and into one where you are pleasant, eager, approachable, an advocate for your boss, etc. It really will help transform how people perceive you at work. If you are cynical and hate your employer and are not motivated to make personal changes, this book will not help you. You have to want to make the change.

Practical advice for anyone in business

This book offers practical advice for anyone in business by showing you what CEOs deem important. The book offers tips on how to become a person a successful company would want to retain. In a business environment that has devalued long-term relationships, this book provides savvy "intraprenuers" with a way to show how you add value to business.