Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success

by D'Alessandro, David

• ISBN13: 9780071544238
• ISBN10: 0071544232
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

This is not your basic training manual. Its an advanced guide of tactical maneuvers for professionals who want to rise up in the ranks From CEO-turned-bestselling-author David DAlessandro comes a humorous commentary on corporate life, as well as field guide of winning strategies based upon his insiders experience. Once managers achieve a level of success, its common for the ascension up the corporate latter to feel even more difficult. It seems the higher they climb, the more "bosses" they have. According to DAlessandro, corporate warriors need to know who the key players are, and how to strategically manage them, while deftly protecting their flanks. This book shows them how to master these maneuvers with DAlessandros hard-won insights, outspoken ideas, unsparing anecdotes, and surefire tactics. If business is war, this is the key...to victory.

Author Biography

David F. D’Alessandro is a former Chairman andCEO of John Hancock FinancialServices. He is sought after as aspeaker for corporations, universities,and governmental conventions.In addition, D'Alessandro is aguest columnist for the Boston Globeand a guest commentator onCNBC for a variety of business andsocial issues. D'Alessandro alsoserves as the Vice Chairman of theBoard of Trustees at BostonUniversity.

Table of Contents

Raise Your Rank on the Organizational Battlefield 'D'Alessandro is that refreshing rarity: a businessman who tells it like it is.'

Chicago Sun-Times 'When it comes to straight talk about what it really takes to thrive in business, no one does it better today than bestselling author

Executive Warfareis the most compelling installment of his Warfare trilogy.'

bestselling author

The Dynamic Pathand Senior Director, Spencer Stuart 'Executive Warfareis a rare find…a management skills book which provides excellent advice and is a good read at the same time

David looks at what it takes to climb the corporate ladder and tells it like it really is: the good, the bad and the ugly.'

former president and CEO of Discovery Communications

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