David Noer

Keeping Your Career on Track

Avoiding Derailment, Enriching the Work Experience and Helping Your Organization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Career derailment, found at all organizational levels in the workplace, is under-documented. Most books examining how careers go off track deal with abstract concepts and focus only on top executives. This book defines 99 potentially career-ending pitfalls, illustrated with real-world examples, and offers specific advice to employees at all levels in business, nonprofit, military, government and other organizations. Topics include the consequences of power and pleasing, the illusion of immunity, meeting behavior, corrective feedback, ineffective image, nonverbal behavior, self-serving analysis and the perception of management as a science. Perspectives are provided on avoiding the indirect hazards of working with superiors or subordinates who may be on the path to derailment. A reader self-assessment is included.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781476664484
• ISBN-10: 147666448X
• Artikelnr.: 44678377

Autorenporträt

David Noer is an honorary senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership and professor emeritus at Elon University. He has written a wide range of articles, seven books, numerous book chapters and leadership research studies. He is the former editor of the Organization Development Practitioner and member of the Organization Development Board of Directors. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Part I: Self-Sabotage 1.
Derailment by Zipper 2.
Derailment by Suicidal Meeting Behavior 3.
Derailment by Political Quicksand Part II: Insight Deficits 4.
Derailment by Feedback Immunity 5.
Derailment by Image Mismanagement 6.
Derailment by Communication Constipation Part III: Faulty Behavioral Wiring 7.
Derailment by Big Feet 8.
Derailment by a Big Heart 9.
Derailment by a Big Head Part IV: Incompatible Needs 10.
Derailment by the Need to Be Right 11.
Derailment by the Need to Be Nasty 12.
Derailment by the Need to Be Busy Part V: Warped Perceptions 13.
Derailment by Gunnysack 14.
Derailment by Fantasy 15.
Derailment by Cross-Cultural Blindness Part VI: Misdirected Loyalties 16.
Derailment by Functional Fixedness 17.
Derailment by Diversity Adversity 18.
Derailment by Sub-Unit Arrogance Part VII: Dysfunctional Traits 19.
Derailment by Charisma 20.
Derailment by Irrelevance 21.
Derailment by Avoidance Appendix A: The Derailment Risk Assessment Inventory Appendix B: The 21 Derailment Risk Categories Appendix C: The 99 Derailment Hazards References Index