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All the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on.; Ross McCammon learned the hard way. When he was invited to come to New York to write at Esquire magazine at the age of thirty, Texas-born Ross was sure he was doomed to fail. He was thrown in the deep end in one of the most stylish and competitive cities in the world. But he soon realised that everyone felt like he did, and that no one feels like an insider. In short - everyone's faking it.; Now, in The Impostor's Handbook, he offers a funny and frank guide to pretending you are as charming, relaxed, interesting and witty as you want to be. With chapters on interviews, handshakes, entering a room, how to email like Robert De Niro, how to 'do' lunch, drinks, chitchat, when to shut up, and how to employ a profanity, The Impostor's Handbook throws the conventional self-help wisdom out of the window and gives you all the ammunition you need to fake your own bona fide success story.; Don't go to work without it.
Contents
Contents; Introduction xi; 1 First, a Little Story 1; 2 Should You Keep Reading This Book? 7; 3 How to Be Interviewed 11; 4 Classic Interview Rules, plus One More 16; 5 How to Talk to a Recruiter 18; 6 How to Enter a Room 21; 7 How to Have a First Day on the Job 25; 8 Ways in Which You Must Screw Up Early On: A Handy Checklist 34; 9 What to Say When Someone Asks for Your Take on the Oeuvre of Werner Herzog at Dinner with Your Brand-New Colleagues and You Don't Know Who Werner Herzog Is 37; 10 The Importance of Sucking at a New Job for a Year or Two 41; 11 How to Smile 45; 12 How to Shut Up 48; 13 Things You Should Never Say in a Professional Setting 51; 14 How to Have a Meaningful Lunch in a Fancy Restaurant Full of Important People 54; 15 A Few More Rules for the Business Lunch 60; 16 How to Make Small Talk 62; 17 A List of Small-Talk Topics for People Who Hate Small Talk 65; 18 How to Have a Short but Meaningful Conversation in an Elevator 67; 19 How to Pitch Something 70; 20 A Few Words on Passion 74; 21 How to Shake a Hand (Feat. Kanye West) 76; 22 How to Be Late 80; 23 How to Be on Time, for Chrissakes 83; 24 How to Find a Good Bar to Drink in After Work 86; 25 How to Work While Drinking 90; 26 How to Begin a Work Thing 95; 27 How to End a Work Thing 97; 28 Should You Be Dancing at This Work Thing? 99; 29 How to Give a Toast 101; 30 Things You Should Never Say While Giving a Toast 106; 31 How to Give a Speech When You're Terrified of Giving a Speech 107; 32 Things You Should Never Say During a Speech 111; 33 How to Give a Speech When You Have Just Taken One Too Many Xanax 113; 34 How to Talk to "Important" People 115; 35 How to Think About Clothes 129; 36 Style Rules for Work That You Hear All the Time, Plus One You Never Do 133; 37 Sprezzatura! 135; 38 An Impostor's Garden of Mantras 138; 39 A Few Words About Collaboration 140; 40 A Few Words About Credit 142; 41 How to Email 144; 42 A Few More Rules for Emailing 146; 43 Why Strident Postures on Social Media Are, at the End of the Day, Probably a Bad Idea-Especially if You're Looking for a Job 148; 44 How to Intimidate People 151; 45 On Assholery 155; 46 Are You an Asshole? 159; 47 The Case for Profanity 165; 48 How to Work with Someone Who Clearly Resents You and Is Threatened by You and Would Prefer That You Weren't Around 169; 49 "Two Beers and a Puppy": A Helpful Test for Determining How You Feel About Someone 173; 50 The Score 174; 51 How to Forget About That Thing That Happened That One Time That You Still Wince About 177; 52 Why You Should Always Be an Outsider 181; Afterword: How to Write a Book in Which You Do Nothing but Tell Strangers What to Do 185; Acknowledgments 187; Appendix 1: A Reading List: Self-Help Books That Are Not "Self-Help" Books 191; Appendix 2: How to Pronounce the Names of Scotches 194; Appendix 3: Rules I Never Got To 196; Appendix 4: Key Measures and Equivalents 201; Index 203; About the Author 207
