Kingmaker.(Kingmaker: Be the One Your Company Wants to Keep ... On Your Terms )(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Kingmaker Be the One Your Company Wants to Keep ... On Your Terms By Joanne Cini Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 ISBN: 0-13-184030-4 $32.95 Cdn; 245 pages (hardcover)

Your career can't just be the means to an end. It's too important, and you spend too much of your life at it. Let it become a means to endless possibilities, passion, and discovery.

In Kingmaker, Joanne Cini shows you positive, value-nourishing ways to move up the corporate ladder, specific techniques for overcoming dysfunctional organizations and "negative energy," which battles are worth a fight, and when it's "game over." Above all, Joanne delivers specific techniques for keeping your freedom, holding on to your values, and staying focused on your most important whole life goals--business and personal.

* Moving up without selling out--Positive, dignified strategies for fasttracking your career.

* What really matters: keeping your eyes on the prize--Staying focused on the goals that really matter to you in your career.

* Choose your next boss--Finding talented, enlightened,, generous leaders ... and what to do until you do.

* A New Plan B: protecting your security ... and your choices--Creating a "freedom plan" that protects and empowers you and realizing that giving your all doesn't mean giving everything.

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