Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed [Hardcover]

Harvey J. Coleman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787213861 | ISBN-13: 978-0787213862 | Publication Date: April 1996

Hard work and good performance only will not guarantee success. Coleman offers detailed "how-to" techniques for professionals interested in upward mobility and for those who just want to better understand "why" certain things happen in their environment. Illustrations.

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About the Author

Harvey J. Coleman is President and founder of Coleman Management Consultants (CMC), Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Coleman has worked for Xerox and IBM Corporations and for the last thirty-five years consulted with many of the Fortune 100 Corporations, major governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, the military and educational institution in the United States and abroad. He has consulted with Great Britain's House of Lords and taught managers in over twenty-five different countries. He was elected Atlanta, Georgia's first Small Businessman of the Year. Empowering Yourself has been translated into Chinese and he has written a book about the rules for young people entitled "The Rules of the Game for High School, College and Life". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 179 pages
• Publisher: Coleman Management Assocs (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787213861
• ISBN-13: 978-0787213862
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #725,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Empowering Yourself" is an Ivy-league MBA in a book, September 19, 1997

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed (Hardcover)

"Empowering Yourself" is an excellent source of information on how the real game is played. This is a book that needs to be read twice. The first time you read Coleman's work, you will feel helpless, angry, and even have the desire to revolt against the status quo. The first reading really motivates you to either change the system or merely give up even trying to play. On the second pass, you really get a feel for the power of this book. You realize that "Empowering Yourself" is a blueprint to success. Coleman is merely providing the reader with the design for success in the world we live in. It is up to the reader to decide whether it is worth going through with these plans. The analogy which I get from this book lies in the similarities between the "Rules of the Game" and the laws which govern gravity. We have all had the desire to fly, unbounded by the earth, flying free as a bird. But to do so, we would have to suspend the laws of gravity.As much as we revolt against physics, the laws of gravity will not be broken by man. Neither will the power structure which we currently live under (at least not in our lifetime). So it is the readers choice to learn to fly by man-made methods, become a modern day Don Quixote and fight the windmills of societys power structure, or be content to travel the earth by foot. This is a must read for all those who want to fly and are willing to pay the price.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Empowering Yourself, March 27, 2009

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R. Daymon "R. RD Daymon" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed (Hardcover)

This is one of my all time favorites. A superb book and recommend it to all my friends. This is a how to book for those planning to make it in corporate America and understanding how to play the game. This is a playbook for Black America and anyone who want to know the secrets of success. This book truly opened my eyes to the game. Although I had navigated the political minefields of Washington DC without it, if I had read this book before my journey, I would not have made some of the mistakes I made early on in my career. He gives you words and what they really mean when your boss or others say them. He shows you the levels of eliteness in this country and the whole slate of the world's elite. A recipe that could only come from someone who has been there.... I'm greatfull that he took the time to share.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book to climb the corporate ladder, February 21, 2009

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Ms. B "Atlanta94" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EMPOWERING YOURSELF: THE ORGANIZATIONAL GAME REVEALED (Hardcover)

I was given the title of this book at a seminar I attended. This was the best investment for my career. No school can teach you how to play the game the way this book does. I love the way Mr. Coleman puts the language of the book in very simple terms. If you are intersted in getting ahead in your company follow the rules that Mr. Coleman lays out and you will be in management/upper management in know time.