Seven Survival Skills for a Re-Engineered World [Paperback]

William N. Yeomans (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1998

Succinct, sage advice for staying afloat and thriving in an environment where the old rules don't apply and the new ones seems to change daily

Massive changes have occurred in the workplace since William Yeomans wrote his bestselling 1,000 Things You Never Learned in Business School. Job security has disappeared, loyalty has eroded, and the relationship between bosses and subordinates has changed. Today people must learn to take charge of their careers and lives, and Yeoman's new book gives them the strategies to do that.

7 Survival Skills for a Reengineered World enables readers to make informed and creative career decisions, and to develop skills that increase their value to present and future employers. Each chapter covers new approaches not taught in business schools or found in other books:
-- How to keep your career together and survive rough times
-- The best way to deal with stress and make it work for you
-- How to use meetings as your showcase
How to motivate people in an uncertain world
-- What to consider if you're thinking about changing your job or starting your own business...and much more.

7 Survival Skills for a Reengineered World is an essential guide for everyone hoping to improve their job performance and achieve professional and personal success.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Dubbing career planning an oxymoron, Yeomans outlines a survival course while companies, governments and educational systems slim their staffs and even the military is mustering out its people. Opining that specific skills that are hot tickets to employment today could become obsolete tomorrow, Yeomans recommends a personal improvement program in which basic abilities?speaking, writing, listening?assume new importance. He advises taking control of one's relationship with one's boss, learning to be both a leader and a team player and exploiting stress for motivation. He would have sellers enter into collaborative relationships with customers. This book revises a theme Yeomans introduced in the 1980s when he broke ground with 1,000 Things You Never Learned in Business School, reflecting new changes and turmoil introduced in the era of downsizing. Yeomans is both humorous and engaging. But, like a plethora of other business books published today, his is geared to individuals looking to adapt to changes in the workplace and ignores the question of whether those changes are good or bad.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Wow! A consultant who talks employee lingo, isn't afraid to be funny, and provides some concrete (and great) advice. Is this a clone of the Dilbert comic strip? Close but not quite; Yeomans, consultant and author of 1000 Things You Never Learned in Business School, offers practicums for everyone, from boss to subordinate, to follow in the new American corporate world. Each of the seven work-survival skills is explained in words, in a series of charts and quizzes, and in examples. The "core competency" of endurance, for instance, focuses on stress, rates it, and identifies its causes and solutions. Some of the authors' most humorous prose will inspire anonymous notes on bulletin boards everywhere: for instance, "If you empower dummies, you get bad decisions faster." Filled with irreverence, belly laughs, and sensible tools and techniques. Barbara Jacobs --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Plume (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452274907
• ISBN-13: 978-0452274907
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,581,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Talks employee talk, humorous, September 15, 1999

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This review is from: Seven Survival Skills for a Re-Engineered World (Paperback)

If you like this book, you will love the temp talker Wendy Perkins, author of Temporarily Yours, for life in the temp fast-lane.