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    The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your Career
    The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your Career
    The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your Career
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    The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your Career

    By Melba J. Duncan

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    Today's executive assistant has become a crucial member of every organization's support staff--a key business ally with diverse responsibilities, from overseeing employees to making strategic decisions. Here is the first step-by-step guide specifically designed to help you thrive in this fast-paced profession. Developed by nationally-known business consultatnt and author Melba Duncan, this leading-edge resource provides all the up-to-date information you need to manage information technologes, deal effectively with abrupt organizational changes and office politics, handle stress, resolve conflicts, motivate workers and forge a team mentality, master public relations and the media, capitalize on opportunities emerging from corporate restructuring, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateFeb 22, 1997
    ISBN9780071503006
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