Conquering Your Workplace: from Mail Room to Board Room-a Sourcebook for Today's Workforce!

Today's growingly precarious workplace presents unprecedented challenges that perplex even veteran employees. With the workforce going global, the workplace virtual, the payrolls leaner, and the organizational hierarchies flatter, stressed-out and discomposed workers want to understand success mantras. With the inexorable workplace-demographic shift, age disparity is creating a difficult-to-comprehend employee dynamic. Yet, nothing has changed fundamentally that should discourage a savvy professional. Conquering provides that bedrock foundation, demystifying how today's organizations function and their workers behave, so that you can understand-even predict-what is happening. Learn why: Managers make wrong assumptions about employeesIt takes skill to manage your manager and to know their functionsWhen peers hijack your agenda, you must coolly unleash your wrathCareer management requires a road map and chutzpah Apprenticing in the right job sets your career trajectoryLearning global cultures galvanizes your careerEveryone must know how to handle customersAvoiding organizational sticky wickets can unblock successKnowing when you're in trouble is key to what's nextDeveloping broader job perspectives can be liberatingReal-life insights and object lessons, handy tools, identifiable scenarios, and timeless treatment, make Conquering an indispensable playbook for today's global workforce.