Staying Power : 30 Secrets Invincible Executives Use for Getting to the Top - and Staying There - page 1
- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Staying Power - 30 Secrets Invincible Executives Use for Getting to the Top And Staying There
- Introduction - Most Unlikely to Succeed
- Part I: The Invincible Career Path
- Rule 1: Do Not Map Out Your Career
- The Problem of Focus
- Artificial Goals
- Four Reasons Not to Plan Your Career
- Rule 2: Discover Your Talents Early, and Discard Your Fantasies Immediately
- Test Your Talents in Many Areas
- Find Your Area of Expertise
- Divide Your Interests into Three Categories: Fantasy, Avocation, and Talent
- Don t Confuse Academic Success with Professional Potential
- Apply Talents with the Broadest Brush Possible
- Rule 3: Maintain Pervasive Professional Flexibility
- Geographic Fluidity
- Salvador s Clock
- The Time-Momentum Equation
- Flex and Flack
- Start as a Specialist, but Become a Leader
- Rule 4: Get Lucky
- Getting Lucky
- Grind Your Teeth, but Bite Your Tongue
- Forcing Opportunity: The Professional Kiss of Death
- Recognizing and Creating Opportunity: An Essential Professional Skill
- Four Ways to Avoid False Opportunity
- Remember That Problems Often Present the Greatest Opportunities
- Rule 5: Promote the Organization, Not Yourself
- Only Owners and Founders Get Away with Self-Promotion
- Becoming the Conduit for the Organization
- The Community Proxy
- The Hollywood Rule of Self-Promotion
- Rule 6: Connections Get You a First Chance, but Never a Second One
- Connection Defined
- Connection Etiquette
- Make It Their Idea
- Do Not Waste Too Much Time Networking
- The Payback Connection
- Connections Evaporate the Moment You Walk in the Door
- Affirmative Action Versus Connection
- Rule 7: When You Suffer a Setback, Come Clean and Bounce Back
- The Career Shift
- Making the Most of a Layoff
- How to Make the Shift
- Knowing When to Shift
- A Cover-Up Lasts Forever ... or Until You Get Caught
- Rule 8: Learn to Take a Punch
- One-Fifth Are for Fighting
- Two-Fifths Ignore
- The Rest of Them Work the Soft Kill
- Subconscious Payback
- Legal Intervention
- Rule 9: Work is a Member of the Family
- Career as a Top Priority
- Expanding Family Time
- Rule 10: Find a Job that You Look Forward to Every Day
- Find Your Passion - Among the Things You re Good At
- The Chains of Money
- Part II: The Invincible Personality
- Rule 11: Anger is a Tactic, Not an Emotion
- Don t Lose Your Cool
- A Special Note for Women
- The Dustup
- Anger in Style
- Anger Parameters
- Rule 12: Harness Your Fear to Sharpen Your Professional Judgment
- Macho Man and Superwoman?
- Fear of Failure
- Harnessing the Fear
- Rule 13: Respect Ambition, but Destroy Opportunism
- Gut Feeling
- Quirks with Perks
- The Buck Stops Over There Somewhere
- Aptitude and Attitude
- Energy and Attitude
- The Honesty Check
- Rule 14: Value Loyalty, but do Not Depend on It
- Loyalty with a Little L