PROMOTING YOURSELF --- 52 LESSONS FOR GETTING TO THE TOP
AND STAYING THERE by Hal Lancaster. Simon & Schuster, 2002
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART 1 --- SELLING YOURSELF
1) (p1-14)
2) (p15-36)
3) (p37-50)
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6) (p101-124)
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8) (p147-164)
PART 2 --- GETTING AHEAD
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10) (p199-222)
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12) (p243-264)
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PART 3 --- INTO THE MANAGEMENT MAELSTROM
PART 4 --- MAKING MIDCOURSE CORRECTIONS
PART 5 --- SWIMMING IN A SEA OF CHANGE --- FIGHT OR FLIGHT?
30) The high-anxiety low-self-esteem blues
31) Reinventing your job (p129-130)
[1] Figure out what you want
[2] Schedule a meeting with your supervisorl
[3] Ask your supervisor to analyze your skills and potential
[4] Present your own views
[5] Go for it!
[6] Don't expect radical change immediately
32) Creating your own new job --- to create a new job for yourself, know your organization and know yourself. And spot needs where no one thought they existed before!
PART 6 --- OFFICE POLITICS --- PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS
PART 7 --- ALTRNATIVE PATHS TO GLORY
52) It's not where you start, it's where you end up --- the keys of successful change are an insatiable curiosity, acceptance of the need for change, being faced with a situation where luck or crisis spurs you on, having a sage supervisor or mentor!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p211)
INDEX (p213-219)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (p221)