Staying Power: 30 Secrets Invincible Executives Use for Getting to the Top - and Staying There
- 3h 58m
- Thomas A. Schweich
- McGraw-Hill
- 2003
You have the talent, and you have the ambition—but you lack a specific career plan to get you to the top. Believe it or not, you’re right on track! “Do not map out your career” is the first of thirty surprising success secrets that you’ll discover in Staying Power. In this completely practical, often startling guide to achieving true and lasting success, dozens of the world’s most successful people reveal the personal and professional secrets that propelled them to the top. Then the author shows you how to apply these winning strategies and tactics to your own career.
You’ll learn from fabulously successful executives such as Jim Parker, CEO of Southwest Airlines, and Bill Marriott, chairman and CEO or Marriott International; political leaders, including Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole; major figures in medicine and the military; Grammy- and Emmy-winning entertainers; and more. They will show you how to find your career path, make your way to the top, and stay there once you’ve arrived. You’ll learn how to:
- Discover your many talents and let go of your fantasies
- Find a job that you look forward to every day
- Harness your fear to sharpen your professional judgment
- Develop professional charisma—yes, you can
- Delve into specific problems in great depth without micromanaging
- Learn to use anger as a valuable tactic rather than an uncontrollable emotion
- And much, much more
About the Author
Thomas A. Schweich is a partner at Bryan Cave LLP and has advised and provided legal counsel to numerous luminaries in business and politics. An accomplished speaker, he is also the author of Protect Yourself from Business Lawsuits and Crashproof Your Life.
In this Book
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Do Not Map Out Your Career
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Discover Your Talents Early, and Discard Your Fantasies Immediately
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Maintain Pervasive Professional Flexibility
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Get Lucky
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Promote the Organization, Not Yourself
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Connections Get You a First Chance, but Never a Second One
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When You Suffer a Setback, Come Clean and Bounce Back
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Learn to Take a Punch
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Work is a Member of the Family
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Find a Job that You Look Forward to Every Day
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Anger is a Tactic, Not an Emotion
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Harness Your Fear to Sharpen Your Professional Judgment
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Respect Ambition, but Destroy Opportunism
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Value Loyalty, but do Not Depend on It
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Put a Very Fine Line between Yourself and Your Subordinates
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Wield a Spiritual Shield, but Not a Spiritual Sword
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You do Not Have to be Good-Looking, but You Have to Look Good
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Take the High Ground and Never Give it Up
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Don't Lose Your Confidence for Very Long
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You Can and Must Develop Professional Charisma
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You Can Only Micromanage Ten Employees and About Six Hundred Square Feet
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The Invincible Executive Delves into Specific Problems at Great Depth
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Intimidation Chases Away Talent, Opportunity, and Creativity
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Spend More Time on Information Inflow Than Information Outflow
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Wring the Emotion Out of Risk Analysis
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Take Decisive Action to End Discord
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Get Results Through Alignment and Adjustment, Not Democracy
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Minimize Meetings
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Negotiate the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, but Leave the Games to Others
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Put the Interests of the Organization over the Interests of Individuals—Very Carefully
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