From Day One, CEO Advice to Launch an Extraordinary Career
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"The perfect graduation and career kick-off gift" with "Excellent, practical advice and wisdom-based counsel from someone who has been both in the trenches and at the peak."
Stephen Covey, author of the 15-million-copy bestseller "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
In FROM DAY ONE, long-time CEO Bill White reveals the key skills that lead to breakthrough success, and helps you integrate them into your repertoire as you manage your career for outstanding results. Discover how to identify your best possible first job, first company, first boss... and get them. Walk in at 9 am on your first day, knowing exactly what it takes to succeed. Leverage the experience of world-class executives and benefit from practical tips about everything from "managing your boss" to networking, learn how to make a superb first impression, set the best priorities for your first day, week and month, uncover unspoken "local knowledge" about success at your company, make the most of feedback, demonstrate your potential without overstepping your bounds, and strengthen crucial skills, from listening to estimating and forecasting.
This is practical, realistic advice straight from the experts, the closest thing to your own personal CEO mentor. Why waste years learning the realities of business success? Learn them here, act on them now, and move up fast!
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"The perfect graduation and career kick-off gift" with "Excellent, practical advice and wisdom-based counsel from someone who has been both in the trenches and at the peak."
Stephen Covey, author of the 15-million-copy bestseller "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
In FROM DAY ONE, long-time CEO Bill White reveals the key skills that lead to breakthrough success, and helps you integrate them into your repertoire as you manage your career for outstanding results. Discover how to identify your best possible first job, first company, first boss... and get them. Walk in at 9 am on your first day, knowing exactly what it takes to succeed. Leverage the experience of world-class executives and benefit from practical tips about everything from "managing your boss" to networking, learn how to make a superb first impression, set the best priorities for your first day, week and month, uncover unspoken "local knowledge" about success at your company, make the most of feedback, demonstrate your potential without overstepping your bounds, and strengthen crucial skills, from listening to estimating and forecasting.
This is practical, realistic advice straight from the experts, the closest thing to your own personal CEO mentor. Why waste years learning the realities of business success? Learn them here, act on them now, and move up fast!
Features + Benefits
Leverage the experience of world-class CEOs to maximize your contribution and accelerate your career. Leave those "rookie mistakes" behind!
- Indispensable advice straight from the corner offices of star CEOs, including Vanguard's Jack Bogle and Avon's Andrea Jung.
- How to avoid disastrous "rookie mistakes" and consciously manage your career for best results.
- Excerpt to run in Readers Digest family edition, to 9 million subscribers
- Great gift book for the new year, a new job, or for recent college grads
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"Excellent, practical advice and wisdom-based counsel from someone who has been both in the trenches and at the peak. The perfect graduation and career kick-off gift."
-Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
"Bill White's book should be required reading for anyone starting a career, and a must-read for anyone after they have started their career."
-Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California and co-author, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders
"Benjamin Franklin, the patron saint of self-improvement books, coined the maxim 'doing well by doing good' in his Poor Richard's Almanack. Now, in this wonderfully readable book, Bill White shows, step by step, how you can indeed truly do well in your career by doing good in this world."
-From the foreword by Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, and former Chairman and CEO of CNN
"From Day One is not a book of pie-in-the-sky platitudes. This is reality-based, advice-tested, tempered, and proven by life experience-a 'toolbox' that will provide young professionals with the fundamental habits for career success. It's must reading for anyone who aspires to career success in business, industry, education, or government."
-Jack Rayman, Director of Career Services and Affiliate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Education, Penn State University
"If you are a young person who believes in the future, who believes in personal growth, and who has the humility to learn, this book is for you."
-From the foreword by Ram Charan, Charan Associates business advisor, speaker, and author of several bestselling books, including Confronting Reality and Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
"Fortunate is the young professional-or old professional, for that matter-who heeds this advice. From Day One defines success at a much higher level; it empowers and implores people to choose the natural high road and let success follow. It is also filled with practical tips, not an idealist or moralist dream but a meat and potatoes success story!"
-Jean Egmon, President, Third Angle, Inc. and co-author, The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions and Solve Problems your boss" to networking...gives you the crucial competitive edge you need, from the very beginning!
Are you just starting out, going into a new job, or ready to make a fresh start in business?
Take advice from the top. Plan your success, then make it real...starting from day one! Long-time CEO Bill White reveals the key skills that lead to breakthrough success, and helps you integrate them into your repertoire as you consciously manage your career for outstanding results.
You'll discover how to identify your best possible first job, first company, first boss...and get them. After you're hired, learn how to make a superb first impression by proving your value as a contributor to the organization...set the best priorities for your first day, week, month...uncover unspoken "local knowledge" about succeeding at your company...make the most of feedback...demonstrate your potential without overstepping your bounds...network more effectively by giving not getting...strengthen crucial skills, from listening to estimating and forecasting.
This is practical, realistic advice straight from the "corner office," with stories and interviews from superstars in many fields; the closest thing to your own personal CEO mentor. Why waste years learning the realities of business success? Learn them here, act on them now, and move up fast!
The right first job, first company, first boss
Find your passion-and a manager who'll help you get where you want to be
Starting your new assignment: 7 steps to success Jumpstart your career with an outstanding first impression that proves your value
Networking that works Create your network, nurture it by giving, and make the most of it
Your moral compass: setting boundaries you will not cross Beyond blind ambition: becoming a leader people respect
Paving your road to a management position Take your first steps toward excellence as a manager-and avoid disastrous "rookie mistakes"
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