Your Executive Image: How to Look Your Best & Project Success for Men and Women (Paperback)

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Product Description

Reveals how posture, body language, behavior, and wardrobe choices combine to leave an impression that works for you. Provides detailed shopping checklists, body language translation charts, helpful packing lists for travelers and strategies from overcoats to undergarments. Softcover. DLC: Executives.

Product Details

• Paperback: 273 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; 2 Sub edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580621783
• ISBN-13: 978-1580621786
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #918,753 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pass on this one..., June 18, 2001

By	Jim S. (SC) - See all my reviews

This book seems to be something that some marketing people threw together to make a quick buck, and it shows. I should have realized from looking at the cover that is it not really about "Executive Image" the people look more like game show hosts. I hate to be so critical but there seems to be very little content, and what is there is questionable. For example it advises the use of black suits (Funeral overtone). I also purchased John T. Molloy's New Dress For Success and I am very happy with it and its content, this book I am returning.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacking depth, March 5, 2002

By	"rickfawcett" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews

I am a firm believer in ongoing personal development, so I have continued to read and grow my perspective. Your Executive Image looked interesting because of attention given to clothing, space, gestures, etc...

Then I read it. Not all of it, but as much as I could before I realized this was a waste of time. For instance, the entire posture chapter could have been replaced with a single line: Posture is important as it conveys confidence or insecurity... The rest of the chapter reinforced this one point. Twenty minutes of time for a thirty-second concept. In some chapters, I didn't even see a worthwhile thirty-second concept (like the chapter on space).

Money could have been better spent elsewhere.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm throwing this book in the garbage, June 13, 2001

By A Customer

This book is a complete waste of money. There's hardly any advice in here at all (bringing to mind the famous Wendy's commercial, "where's the beef?"), and much of the advice is just plain wrong.

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The author has this to say about polyester: "Polyester resists wrinkling, so it's great blended with cotton for shirts. A men's dress shirt in 65 to 70 percent cotton and 30 to 35 percent polyester gives the comfort of cotton with the ease of care and great looks of polyester." Huh? Polyester looks good? Is she kidding? Polyester is the ugliest looking fabric you can wear. I can spot one of those partially polyester shirts from a mile away, and it screams "cheap shirt."

The book covers several other topics, such as body language and etiquette, but everything is presented in a very cursory manner, leaving many gaps and unanswered questions. Illustrations, which are very useful in books about dress and etiquette (when it comes to describing a suit or a place setting, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words) are completely lacking. Although the book is 273 pages, it's printed in a large font and half the book is white space and blank pages.

So in conclusion, don't waste your money on this book. I'm throwing my copy in the garbage. No point of even wasting bookshelf space on it.

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