Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Managing Your Career
    Managing Your Career
    Managing Your Career
    Ebook71 pages39 minutes

    Managing Your Career

    By Fifty Lessons

    2.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find outwith Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they’ve faced. The contributors share surprisingly personal anecdotes and offer authoritative and practical advice drawn from their years of hard-earned experience.

    The series launches with three volumes, each of which centers on a timely topic:

    · Leading by Example
    · Managing Your Career
    · Managing Change

    A crucial resource for today’s busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world’s most talented leaders.

    50 Lessons’ digital library holds more than 500 individual lessons from over 100 high-profile leaders from industry, the public sector, and academia from companies and institutions around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2007
    ISBN9781422162163
    Managing Your Career

    Related to Managing Your Career

    Related ebooks

    Careers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Working, Fast and Slow

      May 25, 2016

      Working, Fast and Slow
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Disruptive Issue II

      Jan 1, 2019

      The Disruptive Issue II
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Rotman Management

      Sep 1, 2023

      Published in January, May and September by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Rotman Management explores themes of interest to leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs, featuring thought-provoking insights and problem-solving

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      10 Ways to Fail Miserably at Office Politics

      Apr 30, 2021

      “Office politics,” says Boston-based Karen Dillon, “is impossible to avoid. But it is manageable if you know what not to do. As the former editor of the Harvard Business Review magazine and author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics, Dillon provides

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Why Do Incompetent People Become Business Leaders?

      Nov 20, 2019

      If you have ever had a manager, or perhaps even your CEO, who was not only incompetent but dishonest, manipulative, narcissistic and a first-class jerk and wondered how such a person could have attained their position, you are not alone. And, you've

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Science of Speaking Up

      May 1, 2020

      The Science of Speaking Up
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How To Get What You Want

      May 19, 2019

      Jacinta di Mase is a literary agent who set up her eponymous management company in 2004. She spends most of her days negotiating publishing offers and contracts on behalf of her authors, and after 20 years’ experience, knows negotiating is all about

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Successful Leaders Prioritize Their Moral Compass

      Oct 25, 2018

      Leaders who value morality outperform their unethical peers, regardless of industry, company size, or role, according to new research. But because we all define a “moral leader” differently, leaders who try to do good may face unexpected difficulties

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      So, You Want To Be A CEO?

      Sep 1, 2018

      So, You Want To Be A CEO?
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How to Be a Human Leader

      Jun 30, 2017

      How to Be a Human Leader
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Lonely At The Top? Don’t Be

      Dec 22, 2020

      Faced with a tough decision that needs to be made quickly, most leaders’ command-and-control instincts kick in. They are often wrong. In a world changing at an extraordinary pace, expecting a leader under pressure to make the call alone is to overloo

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Do You Realise How Scary You Are?

      Dec 3, 2019

      Most managers know they need to create an environment where people can speak up in order to hear innovative ideas and avoid scandals. Research from a new book ‘Speak Up: Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard’ (Financial Times Publ

      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Q&A

      Jan 1, 2023

      When you joined Fortune magazine in 2000, describe the culture you encountered. I was really lucky to get that job straight out of college. I was assigned to work for an experienced editor at large, so I had a built-in mentorship situation, which was

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Managing Your Career

    2.5/5

    2 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Managing Your Career - Fifty Lessons

      CONTRIBUTORS

      LESSON ONE

      Choose Your Words Carefully

      Paul Anderson

      Chairman, Spectra Energy

      AS I PROGRESSED in my career and got into increasingly more responsible or powerful roles, I had to be more sensitive to the impact that my words had on individuals and organizations.

      It was almost like my words took on the power of the position, and things that were casual before were no longer casual. I had my first example of this when I was a manager. It was fairly early in my career, and a young woman named Sarah had come in. I was running a planning organization, and Sarah came to me and said, "Look, I don’t have any background in planning—I’m from the IT group—but I would love to join your organization. I’ll work hard to learn what I need to learn to do a good job. I will strive to do anything that you need done. Just give me a

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1