Risk Management, Human Resources - Personnel Management, Change Management, Success, Motivation & Self-Esteem, Business Life - General & Miscellaneous, Business - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Like tightrope walkers suddenly forced to perform without a net, American employees now face a high-risk environment where job security, career advancement, and organizational stability are no longer guaranteed. Working Without a Net is the perfect guide to success in this too-familiar corporate culture. It shows you how to let go of outdated and unrealistic expectations and replace them instead with practical, self-motivating "rules of the game" that let you establish independence from external forces and foster career and personal growth from within. In straightforward, easy-to-understand language, this uplifting guide teaches you the skills and knowledge you'll need to pave your own road to success - no matter what circumstances alter your journey or stand in your way. This amazing book gives powerful exercises and techniques that sharpen decision-making, relationship-building, risk-taking, and other critical skills needed to survive in today's high risk culture; growth and success strategies that help you expand your capacity for change, set realistic goals, and cope with unexpected loss and setbacks; guidelines for overcoming common obstacles, such as confused and self-defeating values, lack of accountability, and ill-defined goals; steps for managing conflict and anger, plus advice on where your loyalties should lie in a high risk culture; ways to identify and resolve typical "control" issues in high-stress environments, and forge your way to autonomy and self-direction; plus so much more. With unique insight and far-reaching perspective, Working Without A Net empowers you to tackle new challenges, new jobs, and new circumstances - expected and unexpected - with confidence and success.Endorsed by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Working Without a Net is a thought-provoking management book which offers growth and success strategies, powerful exercises, and practical, self-motivating "rules of the game" to help managers compete successfully in today's high-risk business environment. Major media attention.
Editorials
Library Journal
An underlyning thesis of this book is that "people's ability to change is not a function of capacity but of choice." The author, an entrepreneurial consultant and educator, contends that in today's business climate all the rules have changed, traditional approaches aren't working, and all the participants must learn to use a new paradigm or perhaps many new paradigms to achieve success. Provided here are a host of new ideas, techniques, and tools to help one survive and even thrive in this new environment. For instance, Shechtman advises employees to clarify their values to stay on target and to feel accountable not to an organization or group but to individuals. Chapters cover topics such as decision-making, growth and success, relationship building, accountability, anger, and goals. All libraries with business collections will want to purchase this alternative to typical management books.-Susan C. Awe, Jefferson Cty. P.L., Arvada, Col.David Rouse
Job security is no longer a given in most industries and professions. In fact, not only have the old guarantees disappeared, but the very concepts of jobs, work, and the workplace are undergoing radical change. It is in this context that business consultant and former university professor and psychotherapist Shechtman explains for individuals, managers, and organizations how the rules have altered and offers alternative ways to view a world dominated by change. Looking at loyalty, autonomy, choice, and other aspects of individual and organizational behavior, he diagnoses distress signals and warning symptoms and prescribes therapies based on his "new way to view the world."Book Details
Published
November 29, 1994
Publisher
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1994.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780130262394