Cultivate a Cool Career : 52 Brilliant Ideas for Reaching the Top

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langdon, Ken.

Series:

52 Brilliant Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Career development.

Success in business.

Vocational guidance.

Local Subjects:

Career development.

Success in business.

Vocational guidance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Infinite Ideas, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether you're fresh out of education or looking for a new direction in your existing career you need some new ideas to get you to the top. In Cultivate a cool career organisations expert Ken Langdon provides 52 brilliant ideas to put some zing into your career. With realistic and practical advice on everything from dealing delicately with the boss to proving your worth in a tight spot, via ideas on networking effectively and rubbing along with even the most useless of colleagues, Cultivate a cool career is your ticket to the MD's chair.

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Table of contents; Brilliant features; Introduction; 1. Face it, you are you and they are them; 2. Don't bury them in advice; 3. Make good suggestions loudly; 4. Don't come to me with your problems; 5. Watch out for holiday surprises; 6. Do you want to ride in the Derby or pull a coal cart?; 7. Lead with style; 8. Actions speak louder than decisions; 9. Know what to say to whom; 10. Don't leave your job behind when you move on; 11. How do I look?; 12. Please Sir, can I have some more?; 13. Go on, give them a shock; 14. Send an inside salesperson

15. Back the right horse16. Try working for a nineteenth-century mill owner; 17. Encourage the musician in everyone; 18. Find out what you are supposed to be doing; 19. You are totally responsible for you; 20. I'm from head office and I'm here to help; 21. Ready, aim, fire; 22. You've done what?; 23. Draw your own map; 24. Keep up the good work; 25. Don't talk so much; 26. What goes around comes around; 27. Vain, who moi?; 28. Everybody lives by selling something; 29. Changing horses mid-career; 30. Count your fingers; 31. Make them agree fast; 32. Help the aged; 33. Fail rich

34. I'm alright, it's the others35. The multi-headed decision maker; 36. Two heads are better than one; 37. A triple-whammy career boost; 38. Check what it's all about; 39. Two, four, six, eight...; 40. Be a dedicated follower of fashion; 41. You only need 20 per cent of them, you know; 42. Nothing can go wrong, because nothing is planned; 43. It's a bargain!; 44. Get your own way with a consultant; 45. It's how you tell 'em; 46. Of course it's risky; 47. Be successful whatever your gender; 48. Make me an offer; 49. Make your team your wings and soar; 50. Well read; 51. Life's a balance

52. It's done what to profits?Bonus idea 1. Leave the office on time; Bonus idea 2. How will you know when you've found the right job?; Bonus idea 3. The seven deadly CV sins; The end...; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-908189-13-4

1-281-15209-9

9786611152093

1-907518-86-X

OCLC:

642661052