Helpful advice on how to survive and thrive in the new corporate world introduces seven key skills designed to help readers make creative career decisions, increase their value to employers, and function in a changing work environment. 25,000 first printing.
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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.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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
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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.
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