and enjoy Hilarys secrets, but dont tell anyone else about this book, Dont consult it openly keep it locked away in your desk drawer, Then you can look forward to a long and fruitful career, at the expense of others, Hilary believes in the traditional definition of success: power and money, Every other definition has simply been invented by those who have money and power, to try and convince you that you dont want what they have already got.
Thats less competition for them, Dont fall for it.
Any promising executive who wants to get to the top the sneaky way: learn how to get there in a Ninjalike way without appearing to trample everyone underfoot.
This kind of advice would stretch the budget of even those stratospheric members of the top flight, but we have persuaded this doyen of company politics to share their knowledge, accumulated over many years, that will allow the ambitious to reach their goal in the same way that Hilary did like a Ninja quietly, effectively, deadly and become, like Hilary, the Ninja of the corporate world.
An old campaigner who has already risen to the top of the tree, Hilary has struck fear into the heart of a few, but most never realised
who it was that derailed their career, suggested a rival for a promotion, sidelined their major project into the depths of the threeyear plan or engineered the plucking of their best staff into a different department.
Its only now that Hilary has retired that these secrets can be shared, You will learn how to spend as little time as possible managing your staff without anyone noticing see how to avoid being seconded to a doomedtofail project and discover how you could sleep your way to the top.
This book focuses largely on the types of people that you will encounter, and how to deal with them.
But in order to do this well, you need, like any Ninja, to know yourself first what you are good at, and what you need to hide or steal from others.
Shows us all how to play the game and win any way we can!
There is the key section on the different types of people that you will encounter whether they are your boss, your colleagues or your staff, you must learn how to identify them so you can outmanoeuvre them.
There are some insightful principles on what to do, and what not to do, There are some ploys you can engage to further your career, and likewise there are some terrible mistakes lurking out there, waiting for the unwary or unwise.
There are many scenarios covered in this book that focus on some of the different situations in which you might find yourself, with some of the people in context, where you are given some useful advice.
This may be getting a new job in a new company or a new job in the same company.
A list of definitions within gives the true meaning of misused words and phrases some indoor games for when you are bored some appraisal terms to stop you from giving HR a collective coronary and notes on upgrading job descriptions to boost your role or your staffs, if you are feeling magnanimous.
AUTHOR SAYS
“Its normal, of course, for authors to acknowledge the help of others in writing their book.
Far be it for me to disregard this convention so I would just like to say thanks to the various mealymouthed, pompous, aggressive and devious people that contributed to the contents by presenting me with the challenge of how to clamber past them and rise up the greasy pole of success.
Its absolutely vital that you keenly observe everything and everybody, and work out peoples motivations for their actions, as its only by doing this that you will be able to obtain true success.
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