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Get Paid More and Promoted Faster: 21 Great Ways to Get Ahead in Your Career

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Don't buy this book. Instead, buy a cup of coffee at the bookstore and take 20 minutes out to read it at the bookstore.

The other reviewers who bad mouthed this book are right. It is all common sense. But most self help is common sense. However, sometimes it helps to be reminded of what we should be doing to get further along in our careers. I believe that if you followed his advice completely, you would get promoted and paid more, but you wouldn't make small talk at work, you wouldn't have social life outside of work, you wouldn't listen to music in your car (only audio-books), and you'd probably be a really boring and serious person.

But if you take half of his advice (like reading for an hour each day about something in your field) you'd come out a better person. All for the price of a cup of coffee.

But it's written well.

This book was a very disappointing collection of weak common-sense philosophies for getting ahead in your career. Basic lip service that might be somewhat helpful to a twenty year old bagging groceries for a living, but certainly useless for any motivated person who has started their career. Mr. Tracy's "book" is more like a pamphlet, in content, and can't hold a candle to strong career enhancement books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People or Winning Through Intimidation. I only purchased this book because I read a favorable write up of it on CNN's web site-I guess I will have to take their recommendations with a grain of salt in the future.

There is nothing in this little book that anyone of any experience at all does not already know. It contains such profound advice as "work hard," "set definite career goals," "find a career that you enjoy," and "have a positive attitude." The only career that the author will further with this book is his own career as an author of junk self-help books containing nothing but baked-over, recycled advice that has already been put into print many times before. A complete waste of time and money.

Brian Tracy seems to have the answer for everything, including how to get that raise and promotion. Actually, his point is that you have the answer to everything, if only you can achieve clarity - knowing exactly what you want and how to get there - while disciplining yourself to work toward your objective. Can it really be that easy? Well one thing's for sure, reading this book will make it a lot easier. This volume offers 21 short chapters of clearly presented, easy to absorb (if not always strictly grammatical) material. We from getAbstract recommend it to anyone in any field who aspires to be promoted. After all, would you turn down more money? We didn't think so.

I have studied much, if not most, of the success literature and I have to say that this book offers some of the best advice for getting ahead in your career. This easy-to-read, succinct book really hits the nail on the head and draws from the wisdom and experience of those in the know about career success. I just gave this book to my nephew who graduated from college last week and told him that it contains very valuable and accurate information.
I am the producer of the PBS television program The Legacy of Achievement™ featuring the lives and lessons of great achievers (www.legacyofachievement.tv) and I also write and teach about success and achievement. I am going to make this one of my recommended books in the "Business and Career Success" resouces area of my web site at www.holman.com.

No exaggeration: You would fair better by grabbing a handful of fortune cookies at a Chinese food resturant. This book is simply a list of obvious "good to do" habits for work.

The author, in his words, in his self-photos and attitude oozes a plastic, no value-adding presence: "Bleeched teeth and posing" syndrome to cover for no talent or insight.

This book is so valueless I am throwing it away, not even selling it used to some poor soul.