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The story of how I learned the dark arts of career management. For mangers and aspiring executives and anyone else who can't help but be frustrated that they aren't moving up the corporate ladder while incompetent people around them get promotion after promotion. From the pages of the most controversial career book of 2014 Stealing the Corner Office - 7 winning tactics I learned from studying average and below average managers who make it big.
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Stealing the Corner Office
7 Winning Career Strategies They’ll
Never Teach You in Business School
Hi, my name is Brendan.
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I’ve always been a smart cookie.
cookies
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When I started my career, I thought
it would be like this.
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And that I would go like this.
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But instead, I did this.
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While so many of my peers were
doing this.
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Most of them were not smart
cookies like me either.
No cookies
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I just couldn’t figure out why they
were successful and I was not.
Why?
Why?
Why?
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So for 5 years, I studied them.
12
3
4
5
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And then one day I figured it out.
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It turns out, most of the things I
thought were my strengths were
actually holding me back.
passionate
demanding
reliable
results oriented
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And when I changed them I started
doing this.
promotions
money
freedom
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Here are the 7 career lessons I
learned from studying incompetent
people who make it big.
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These are winning career tactics
that will make you successful
whether you’re a smart cookie or
not.
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1. Embrace the changes everyone else hates.
new boss
acquisition
re-org
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2. Never be too passionate about your ideas.
be objective
present options
its not about you
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3. Don’t be part of the herd.
don’t gossip
don’t gripe
network up
differentiate
psst …
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4. Don’t hold people accountable … help them.
Don’t do this
“an image as a
mentor is more
likely to get you
promoted than
an image as a
task master”
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5. Avoid the Farce of Results Orientation.
Spend more time
expanding skills
Spend less time on
short term results
Skills travel well.
Results don’t.
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6. Find Big Problems to Solve.
“reliable managers
are only known for
their mistakes. You
need big wins to put
enough points on
the board to get
noticed”
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7. Learn to promote your projects.
Promote before
Promote during
Promote after
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Want to learn more about the dark
arts of career management?
Read my book
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