What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead? What Your Manager Won’t Tell You About What It Really Takes to Be Successful

by Goldfarb, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780071741262
• ISBN10: 0071741267
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

You work hard. You're good at your job. Your employer values your experience and job performance. But for some reason, you're seeing promotions go to associates who don't have your ability, and you're starting to wonder: What's stopping me from getting ahead? Robert W. Goldfarb has worked with and interviewed hundreds of managers and CEOs around the world, and he's uncovered the surprising truths you must know if you are to win that promotion

Author Biography

About the Author
Robert W. Goldfarb is the president and founder of Urban Directions, Inc., a global consulting firm. For 30 years he has consulted with CEO's and supervisors at every level, coaching on manufacturing lines, in corporate boardrooms, on sales floors, at law firms, universities, hospitals, investment banks and government agencies.

His coaching has one objective: helping managers achieve their fullest potential by avoiding behavior that damages careers. Goldfarb has written on managing in a changing society for the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and for Readers' Digest.

Prior to founding his consulting firm, Goldfarb served in line and staff positions at AT&T, Mobil Oil Corporation, Hofstra University and the National Urban Coalition. He graduated with honors from Columbia University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and holds an M.A. from New York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Behavior Your Boss Will Not Tolerate	p. 9
Hearing Your Boss	p. 11
Never Forget Why You Were Hired	p. 17
Managing in a Foreign Culture	p. 23
Avoid Overstating Problems	p. 31
When Good Enough Is No Longer Good Enough	p. 37
Managing Former Peers	p. 43
Managing Diversity	p. 49
Give Only the Details Needed	p. 55
Emotions You Arouse in Others	p. 59
Humor That Isn't Funny	p. 61
Killing Creativity	p. 65
When Laid-Back Is Seen as Not Caring	p. 71
Downsizing Humanely	p. 75
Balancing Facts and Feelings	p. 83
When Emotions Overcome Reason	p. 89
Curb That Temper	p. 95
Don't Manage Through Intimidation	p. 101
Behavior That Keeps You Stuck	p. 107
What Is Urgent and What Can Wait	p. 109
Delegate, Don't Do	p. 115
Finding Sanctuary at Work	p. 121
It's Not Just Politics	p. 127
Lose Battles, Win Wars	p. 133
The Price of Arrogance	p. 139
Confrontation Isn't a Dirty Word	p. 145
You Can Balance Family and Work	p. 151
Overcoming Bias Directed at You	p. 157
Racism Reawakening in the Workplace	p. 159
The Workplace Remains Tougher for Women	p. 169
You Want to Retire but Have to Work	p. 181
Some Closing Thoughts	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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