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Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why, Second Edition: 12 Things You'd Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead
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Product Description A revised and updated edition of the career advancement guide that advocates working smarter, not harder, from one of America's premier career consultants. Do your job, do it well, and you’ll be rewarded, right? Actually, probably not. According to career guru Donald Asher, advancement at work is less about skillsets and more about strategy. The revised and expanded edition of WHO GETS PROMOTED, WHO DOESN’T, AND WHY details exactly what puts one employee on the fast track to an exceptional career, while another stays on the treadmill to mediocrity. Whether you’re new to the workforce, repairing a recession-damaged career, or feeling stagnant and overlooked at work, this book is your ticket to advancement. Learn: ∙ why timing is more important than talent ∙ how corporations actually make promotion decisions ∙ how to avoid career mistakes you don’t even know you’re making ∙ what women in the workforce particularly need to know ∙ and the twelve proven strategies for promotion regardless of your industry and experience If you want to know how to control your career destiny, the solution is to work smarter, not harder. WHO GETS PROMOTED, WHO DOESN’T, AND WHY will help you do just that. Review “I doubled my income with the tips in this book!” —Adele Liss, public relations executive, San Francisco About the Author DONALD ASHER is one of America’s premier career consultants and a featured speaker at conferences and colleges coast to coast. He is a contributing writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com, MSN Encarta, as well as magazines and newspapers nationwide. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PREFACE Dear Reader, Thank you for picking up this book. It has the potential to change your life. Everything that happens to you from this point on can be different. You can have a different outcome, a different future—different from other workers, and different from the other you, the one who didn’t pick up this book, the one who didn’t try to maneuver for promotion. This little book went around the world in the media, and was named career management book of the year in Joyce Lain Kennedy’s nationally syndicated column, Careers Now. The award-winning career portal QuintCareers named me a “Career Mastermind” because of this book. When you register that you have accepted a job offer at Columbia Business School’s MBA program, they hand you this book. Many other graduate and undergraduate programs use the book in the same way. “You got a job? Great. Now use this book to create a reputation and get promoted.” I deeply appreciate career centers and all that they do for students. Thousands upon thousands of you, readers from around the world, have used this book to achieve your goals, and I look forward to each and every one of your emails and stories. Your success is eternally gratifying to me. The tips from the book that seemed to resonate the most, according to your reviews and in your letters and emails, were these: • A promotion is never a reward, it’s a prediction. • Irreplaceable people cannot be promoted, ever. • There is a structural bias in favor of hiring from outside rather than promoting from within, and you must provide certain specific assurances to overcome that bias. You’ll see these, and much, much more, in the following pages. The first edition was a bit of a risk. My editors weren’t sure if it made sense to write a book just for top performers and highly ambitious people. I believed that there was plenty of reason to do it. First of all, the majority of workers don’t read any career books at all, so an author is automatically writing for the top half of all careerists. But I knew there were smart, ambitious people out there who could put these principles into play, who didn’t need the kind of rudimentary advice in other guides, who didn’t need to pay money to read advice like this: “Polish y
