Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed

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AuthorHouse, 2010 - Business & Economics - 216 pages
"Work hard and you'll get ahead " We've heard that all our lives, but has it worked? Has your hard work often gone unnoticed or have others who have not worked as hard as you moved on, leaving you behind? If so, this book is a must read. "Empowering Yourself...The Organizational Game Revealed" tells why your career might be slowing or has hit the "glass ceiling." For the first time, the unwritten rules that define our system have been defined and written. Whether your definition of success is increased credibility in your current assignment or moving up the organizational ladder, this book will give you the knowledge to make the proper decisions to accomplish your goals. This book will, as never before, take you into the critical area of the "unwritten rules" that are so important in a successful career or life. You will, after reading this book, truly know how "the system" works and how "the game" should be played. If gaining empowerment or owning/controlling your career is an objective in your life, you must learn how the system works. This will allow your choices to be meaningful and productive. Without the information contained in this course, personal decisions will be hollow and careers will be left to the dictates of the system. After reading this book, events in your organizations will make sense; the advice from your mentor will be better understood; and even the evaluation of the evening news will take on new excitement simply because you understand the game. It is impossible to win any game if you do not know the rules. Mr. Coleman, in a simple and straight forward manner, gives us the rules we need to be successful. This book can level the playing field for any individual.
 

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Contents

How Can They Do This?
3
Choice? Its Your Move
10
It All Begin?
16
PerformanceThe Entry Ticket
26
The Appraisal
35
Image
38
Off with the Facial Hair
45
The Team Player Attitude
52
Entertaining in the Home
103
The Fine Arts
112
Cars
116
Money
122
Summary of the Rules
137
Tips for Setting Goals
144
Delegation Suggestions
150
PowerThe Ability to Influence
156

Exposure
58
The Game Board Defined
64
Why Do I Always Have to Be the One to Change?
72
You Cant Go Home Again
78
The Game Board
88
Where People Live
96
Why Are the Rules Important?
166
Understanding Your Work Community
172
Make Choices That Make Sense for You
188
Again Knowledge Is Power
194
Just Do It
200
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About the author (2010)

Harvey J. Coleman is President and founder of Coleman Management Consultants (CMC), Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Coleman has worked for Xerox and IBM Corporations and for the last thirty-five years consulted with many of the Fortune 100 Corporations, major governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, the military and educational institution in the United States and abroad. He has consulted with Great Britain's House of Lords and taught managers in over twenty-five different countries. He was elected Atlanta, Georgia's first Small Businessman of the Year. Empowering Yourself has been translated into Chinese and he has written a book about the rules for young people entitled "The Rules of the Game for High School, College and Life".

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