Here is the inside scoop on what employers are really looking for in an indispensable worker. Providing you with the key high-performance traits that really count in the workplace, HOW TO BE THE PERSON SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES FIGHT TO KEEP takes you behind the scenes, into the boardrooms and offices of more than 300 business owners, CEOs, managers, and human resources directors, revealing why you must: Find ways to demonstrate value added Identify your competition - both inside and outside your company Cultivate advocates and allies who will fight for you Initiate and embrace organizational change Have a positive impact on your customers, coworkers, and company Now more than ever, it is vital to remain employable, rather than just keep your job. HOW TO BE THE PERSON SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES FIGHT TO KEEP is an essential survival manual for employees today.
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The core of this book offers insight into the answers to the often asked question in a downsizing environment of who stays and who goes when the choice is between two equally competent employees. Podesta and Gatz, through their research of CEOs, business owners, managers, human resources directors, and supervisors in a variety of companies, have developed a set of high-performance abilities that are expected from employees. These abilities include taking charge of one's personal life, demonstrating value added, having a positive impact on one's company and customers and colleagues, embracing and initiating change, working harder and smarter and faster and better, communicating openly and directly, looking for leadership opportunities, and committing to lifelong learning. We learn that meaningful employment does not refer to what the job is but to how that job is done in terms of an employee's commitment to quality, dependability, integrity, and treating others with respect. We are told that the future belongs to those with focus and flexibility, those who are team players and also energized risk takers. Mary Whaley
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Practical advice for anyone in business,
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This review is from: How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep: The Insider'S Guide To Being #1 in the Workplace (Paperback)
This book offers practical advice for anyone in business by showing you what CEOs deem important. The book offers tips on how to become a person a successful company would want to retain. In a business environment that has devalued long-term relationships, this book provides savvy "intraprenuers" with a way to show how you add value to business.
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This is an awesome book. In clearly gives examples of how different employees are perceived and gives examples of how behavior and attitude changes can change your career or even save it if they are making cuts. Many of us go to work with poor attitudes or think we are giving 100% and no one appreciates it. This book explains how you may think you are giving 100% and not getting any mileage out of it because no one notices, or because you have serious deficiencies in other areas, so it doesn't matter how good you are elsewhere. It helps you get out of the "I'm a victim at work, no one appreciates me, they are out to screw everyone, blah blah blah" mindset and into one where you are pleasant, eager, approachable, an advocate for your boss, etc. It really will help transform how people perceive you at work. If you are cynical and hate your employer and are not motivated to make personal changes, this book will not help you. You have to want to make the change.
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Still an excellent and appropriate read!,
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This book applies to 2009 as much as it did to 1997 when it was written. A must read for everyone - staff and employees alike.
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It may come as a surprise that all the CEOs, human resource directors, managers, and business owners we interviewed agreed that the quality and stability of an employee's personal life often have a direct impact upon the quality and success of his or her professional life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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It may come as a surprise that all the CEOs, human resource directors, managers, and business owners we interviewed agreed that the quality and stability of an employee's personal life often have a direct impact upon the quality and success of his or her professional life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
future employability, direct customer contact New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Leadership Is an Art by MAX DE PREE on page 129
- How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life, Revised Edition by Michael LeBoeuf in Front Matter
- The Perfect Business by Michael Leboeuf in Front Matter
- Leadership Is an Art by Max Depree on page 129
- Life Would Be Easy If It Weren't for Other People by Connie Podesta in Front Matter
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