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Hitting Your Stride: Your Work -- Your Way (Capital Career & Personal Development) (Capital Career & Personal Development) [Paperback]

Nan S. Russell (Author)
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Capital Career & Personal Development January 9, 2008
2009 Axiom Business Book Award Winner!

Hitting Your Stride advocates learning how to use your uniqueness at work - the best of who you are - to be rewarded with interesting work, personal growth, and financial gains. Nan shares her 10 "Winning at Working" Lessons - common sense, but uncommon practices, ways to help you reengage your talent, create your own luck, differentiate your work performance, and make a difference at work. Nan's stop-wishing, start-creating approach offers savvy insights to help you get ahead, enjoy working, and achieve financial rewards. Her motto: "Opportunity is anywhere and everywhere. While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can create your own luck and turn your dreams into reality." Using a story-telling approach, mixed with commentary, analysis, and reflective exercises, Nan identifies mistakes, struggles, disappointments, failures, and successes in the workplace. Hitting Your Stride is an inspiring business-and-life book, with an individualized approach to bringing the best of who you are to work from someone who has been an employee, a manager, and a senior executive. It reinforces the message that whether or not you climb the corporate ladder, winning at working is individual. Hitting Your Stride will help you find your way there, along your own path and with your own style.

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About the Author

Nan S. Russell has spent more than twenty years in management. She went from a minimum-wage employee to vice president of a 4.4 billion dollar QVC with five promotions in seven years. She has held management positions in human resource development, communication, marketing, and line management. Her eColumns, "Winning at Working" and "In the Scheme of Things" appear regularly on more than eighty websites and online newspapers, with estimated readership in excess of five million.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Capital Books (January 9, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 193310256X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933102566
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Even a Stanford degree didn't protect her from being fired from her first professional job. From minimum wage employee to Vice President of a multi-billion dollar company, Nan learned the hard way what it takes to survive and thrive at work. Now she's helping others avoid the mistakes she made, sharing her real-world perspectives of what does and doesn't work at work.

Currently living a life dream to live and write from the mountains of Montana, her Winning at Working and In the Scheme of Things columns reach millions of readers. Nan is a sought after motivational speaker, workplace consultant, and the author of two books, Hitting Your Stride and Nibble Your Way to Success. She is also the weekly host of Work Matters on webtalkradio.net, and a Psychology Today blogger on workplace issues

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you are fresh out of college....., January 15, 2008
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I bought Hitting Your Stride for my nephew who graduated from college last year and can't seem to find his niche in the corporate world yet. I read it before I gave it to him, there is a lot of wonderful information written in a fun and engaging way for any young person starting their career. Ms. Russell has done a fabulous job using many interesting scenarios. I highly recommend this book for all young people and their parents, it gives you a new outlook on what your children are facing and how they can handle these new challenges. Times have changed, that's for sure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it not just for yourself but for your friends and family too!, March 8, 2009
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I can't think of a better book to recommend for folks thinking about their future during these challenging times. Nan provides personal examples, valuable success stories, and thoughtful ideas for moving toward work that is authentic and passionate. It is interesting reading throughout. She shares insightful ways to move toward career success. This isn't one of those books filled with platitudes and simple clichés. This is a keeper.

I especially like the way Nan lets us into her thinking. We see how she has struggled with situations. I particularly appreciated her chapter on "Shades of Grey," sharing how most work issues can't be dealt with in absolutes but are, rather, as she says, more human, more complex, and more heart engaged. Life isn't black or white. Her other chapters - like Creating Your Own Luck, Bringing Yourself to Work, and Waking Up - helped me to understand myself better and what I can do in my life to "Hit My Stride." Buy it for yourself, but also for friends, co-workers, and family who are reconsidering what they want their work to be and to become.
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5.0 out of 5 stars worth owning, September 12, 2008
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No-nonsense career advice, dispensed with anecdotes from the author's own life to make for friendly reading. Unlike preachy self-help books that end up sitting unread on the shelf, this book invites repeat visits and is set up so that you can dip into chapters in whichever order appeals to you.
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