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Powerful, unvarnished advice for growing through the work challenges all aspiring leaders face
The business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion; think positive; be authentic; suck it up; take risks; network. All well-intentioned, but let's be honest. This inch-deep advice just isn't very helpful. How do real people succeed in the real world of work? That's the question bestselling author Joanna Barsh sets out to answer—not by asking motivational gurus or well-established CEOs but by diving into the trenches with today's boldest, brightest, up-and-coming leaders.
Distilling the stories of important work challenges from more than 200 rising leaders in 120 companies, this hands-on guide helps you grow through the challenges you face—not despite them. You'll learn how to:
* Handle rising pressure and recover from colossal mistakes
* Bounce back from poor performance reviews and use them to up your game
* Get people on board with you and your mission
* Deal with office villains like a superhero
* Take uncomfortable risks and dare to challenge
* Grow when everything is falling apart around you
* Know when it's time to find another position
Packed with raw experiences and on-the-job coping strategies from a rich diversity of voices—immigrants and first-generation Americans; blacks, Hispanics, and Asians; Ivy League alums and high school grads; and parents, some of whom are single—from all industries, this book offers the kind of nuts-and-bolts, real-world insights you won't find anywhere else. Using these proven strategies, you can accelerate your growth with every new challenge. Best of all, you'll be able to take the lead in your own career and build a future that works for you.
This is how ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action—and how you can Grow Wherever You Work.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter1: When Work Holds No Passion
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
What Happens After a Wrong Turn
Answering the Call
A Matter of Perspective
Self-doubt Guards the Treasure
Taking on Your Passion Challenge
Chapter 2: When the Pressure Threatens to Overwhelm
Moving to the Driver's Seat
Opening Night with a New Script
Without Limits
Drawing the Line
The Tipping Point
Taking on Your Pressure Challenge
Chapter 3: When Your Mistake Feels Colossal
Promising the Impossible
Caught in the Headlights
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
Recovering from a Whopper
The Day it Hit the Fan
Still Standing
Taking on Your Mistake Challenge
Chapter 4: When Your Performance Review Whacks You
It's Not Funny
I'm OK, and You're OK Too
The Gift of Unfairness
The Brutal Facts
With a Little Help from My Friends
Taking On Your Review Challenge
Chapter 5: When People Don't Come on Board
A Fish Out of Water
Winning Over the Skeptics
In His Shoes
Listening Like You Mean It
Sharing the Burden
Taking On Your People Challenge, Part I
Chapter 6: When You're Working with an Office Villain
The Jerk Who Threw a Tantrum
The Monster Who Turned Gold into Dust
The Mean Girl Who Interfered
The 24/7 Critic
The Boss with a Bad Rap
Taking On Your People Challenge, Part II
Chapter 7: When You Need a Sponsor
But for the Love of Sponsors
The Master Apprentice
Will You Be My Rabbi?
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
It Takes One to Know One
Taking on Your Sponsor Challenge
Chapter 8: When You Dare to Challenge
At a Loss for Words
Shattering Career-Limiting Silence
Standing Up for Yourself
The Rewards of Independence
Thinking for Yourself
Taking On Your Leadership Challenge
Chapter 9: When Risk Taking Feels Like Jumping Off a Cliff
Heading Gladly into the Unknown
After the Fall
Living and Working in Technicolor
A Fighter and an Underdog Walk into a Bar
Failing for a Living
Taking on Your Risk Challenge
Chapter 10: When You Have to Be a Superhero
The Quiet Hero
The Citizen Leader
The Cowboy Sheriff
Crisis Avenger
The Demon Slayer
Taking On Your Superhero Challenge
Chapter 11: When Everything Sucks
Preparing for the Day
A Simple Twist of Fate
Putting Out the Fires
Bringing Your A Game to Plan B
Escaping the Black Hole
Taking On Your Suck Challenge
Chapter 12: When Work Doesn't Feel Worth It
Should I Stay, or Should I Go
Stuck on Perma Hold
Breaking the Cycle
Waking Up
Time to Go
Taking on Your Work Challenge
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