Career & Status
Respect, visibility, promotions and office politics.
- Office Politics: How to Win Without Becoming a SnakeOffice politics is real, and ignoring it costs you. Learn to read the game, build allies, protect yourself and win while keeping your name clean.
- Power at Work: How to Get Respect, Status and InfluenceA plain guide to real power at work: how people judge you, how to show strength with warmth, stay calm, and move things without a fight.
- How to Deal With a Difficult Boss (and Keep Your Spine)A five-step way to work with a boss who is hard to read or hard to please: understand their style, name the real issue and ask for what you need.
- How to Find Your Blind Spots at Work (and Fix the One That Matters)Most successful people cannot see how they come across. A five-step way to ask for the truth, hear it without a fight and change one habit.
- How to Get Promoted: Skill, Sponsors and the AskHow promotions really happen: build rare skill, make it seen, find a sponsor, ask clearly, and know when to move. Clean moves only.
- How to Make a Strong First Impression at WorkPeople judge you in seconds and rarely revise. Five honest steps to start well in a new job, meeting or interview, for women and men, with no faking.
- How to Stay Calm When Attacked in a MeetingA boss or colleague cuts you down in front of others. What to do in the first ten seconds, in the rest of the meeting, and afterwards.
- When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work: What to DoA colleague or boss took credit for your work. How to prevent it, respond calmly, escalate if needed, and know when to let it go.
- Fouquet and the King: What Happens When You Outshine the BossIn 1661 Nicolas Fouquet threw a dazzling party for Louis XIV and was arrested soon after. What it teaches an employee who outshines a boss.
- The Invisible High Performer: Why Great Work Gets OverlookedA composite story of a skilled analyst passed over for promotion, and the three changes that made her work seen, trusted and wanted.
- Difficult Conversations Review: Does the Method Work?Our review of Difficult Conversations: the three layers of a hard talk, the Third Story opening, where the evidence is thin, and how to use it at work.
- The 48 Laws of Power Review: What Holds and What BreaksOur verdict on Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power: what is true about power, which laws backfire at work, and how to use it cleanly.
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