In today's ultra-competitive, lean-and-mean workplace, your professional success won't be determined by your family background, college affiliation, or educational major. Your intelligence, talent, drive, and ambition ... don't matter, either. As no-nonsense Manhattan executive and international business consultant Robert L. Dilenschneider shows you in this enlightening, invaluable book, your success will depend on one thing only: learning the ropes of the working world - and figuring out how to be happy within it - during the first fourteen years of your professional life. Why fourteen years? Because once you approach your mid-to-late thirties, you won't be easily forgiven for business mistakes - for power struggles with the boss or cluelessness about marketing yourself, for mishandling office politics, or for the negative attitude that comes from feeling "stuck" in an ill-fitting career. If you don't fit in, you're liable to be considered "work illiterate," and your opportunities will be limited accordingly. It's imperative to know the ways of the work world, but with today's volatile economy and downsized companies, older generations are often too busy - or too threatened - to guide you. Now, in The Critical 14 Years of Your Professional Life, Dilenschneider offers himself as that necessary mentor. He guides you on using your own Critical 14 Years to put yourself on the path to unlimited opportunity - within your current job, into the next one, or in your own business. He explains why you are ideally positioned for success in the twenty-first century and why success and happiness don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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Dilenschneider offers lessons for all Generation X-ers in what they need to know about functioning at work. Decrying the lack of mentors in today's business world, he proceeds to use this book as a paper version or substitute for all the men and women who helped young people "learn the ropes" in business during years past. The author offers a variety of tips and insights that will serve a beginner well, including an understanding of the important grapevine. The book is built on three basic assumptions: today's young people are ideally positioned for success in the twenty-first century; a lack of guidance can shortcut great potential; and there is only a limited time period (14 years) in which to learn what is necessary to thrive in the workplace. The author tells us that the benefits of reading this book are self-knowledge, empathy, the ability to present ourselves effectively, and learning how to retrieve information and how to solve problems encountered at work. Mary Whaley
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
CRITICAL READ FOR EVERY YOUNG PROFESSIONAL,
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This review is from: Critical Fourteen Years (Hardcover)
This is one of those rare books that you can't put away. It is written in a very clear way with lots of references to other great books. It contains numerous tips on finding the job you like and surviving in the corporate world. The author is right that the first 14 years of your professional life are the most critical, so you better read this books before it is too late.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Work Bible for anyone under 35...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Critical 14 Years of Your (Paperback)
I brought this book two years ago and it has been a continual source of information! It helps you deal with any boss, conniving co-workers, office politics and image building, how to recognize a good company/employee fit, resume and networking tips and how to know when it's time to get moving on from a job that isn't working out. Been laid off or fired? Then this book is definately for you!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good read for High School or College students,
By A Customer
This review is from: Critical Fourteen Years (Hardcover)
It has alot of basic common-sense advice that every worker at any level of the company should learn. It is targeted to the Gen X, but I am not sure how the younger ones of my generation will react to the 'kindly old man' tone of the book. If you have not read a workplace self-help book, this will be good start. It does not give advice for specific situations, but it does ofter you references for more information on a subject. It's really a read for the 'Y' Generation.
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