Staying Power : 30 Secrets Invincible Executives Use for Getting to the Top - and Staying There

ISBN: 0071395172
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 174

Authors: Thomas A. Schweich

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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
True Believers and Forced Believers
Rule 15: Put a Very Fine Line between Yourself and Your Subordinates
The Friendship Trade-Off
Creative Solution
Don t Fake Friendship
A Lesson from Foreign Minds
Rule 16: Wield a Spiritual Shield, but Not a Spiritual Sword
Greed, Pride, and God
The Spiritual Sword
The Spiritual Shield
The Benefits of Doing Good
Use Your Spirituality to Maintain Professional Balance
Rule 17: You do Not Have to be Good-Looking, but You Have to Look Good
Use What You ve Got
Good-Looking Is Good
Diverse Good Looks
The Owner-Founder Equation
Control What You Can
Do Not Confuse Individuality with Stupidity
I Wish I Had the Time to Work Out
Convert the Negatives to Positives
Rule 18: Take the High Ground and Never Give it Up
Ethical Lapses Will Haunt You
Can You Learn Ethics?
Five Rules of Professional Ethics
Ethics Training
Stick to Your Ethics - Always
Rule 19: Don t Lose Your Confidence for Very Long
Avoid Energy-Draining Hand-Wringing
Stay Physically Strong
Substance Abuse
Dealing with Success
Rule 20: You Can and Must Develop Professional Charisma
Part III: The Invincible Management Style
Rule 21: You Can Only Micromanage Ten Employees and About Six Hundred Square Feet
It s the People
Sports Authority
Rule 22: The Invincible Executive Delves into Specific Problems at Great Depth
Rule 23: Intimidation Chases Away Talent, Opportunity, and Creativity
The Passing of T-Rex
No Risk, No Reward
You Stifle Yourself
Bumpy Ride
Rule 24: Spend More Time on Information Inflow Than Information Outflow
Ask and Listen
But Don t Listen to Everything
Clear Channel
Multiple Channels
Rule 25: Wring the Emotion Out of Risk Analysis
Reasonable Risk
Rule 26: Take Decisive Action to End Discord
Two Approaches to Conflict Processes
Do Not Mediate a Transgression
Outside Disputes
Rule 27: Get Results Through Alignment and Adjustment, Not Democracy
No Democracy
The Consistency Factor
Rule 28: Minimize Meetings
Start on Time
Lead and Control
Control the Record
Rule 29: Negotiate the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, but Leave the Games to Others
I Can t Dance
When You Do Have to Do the Grunt Work
Tactical Versus Strategic Thinking
Rule 30: Put the Interests of the Organization over the Interests of Individuals - Very Carefully
You Can t Hurt Others While Enriching Yourself
Individual Symbols
Know the Limits of Organizational Priority
Communication and Compassion
Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Those Profiled
Index
Index_B
Index_C
Index_D
Index_E
Index_F
Index_G
Index_H
Index_I
Index_J
Index_K
Index_L
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Index_N
Index_O
Index_P
Index_R
Index_S
Index_T
Index_V
Index_W
List of Snapshots