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How to Grow a Backbone
- Author
- Susan Marshall
- Narrator
- Anna Fields
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 22 June 2005
- Run Time
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Marshall highlights skills every businessperson can learn and sharpen to become stronger, more confident, and more influential on the job.
Critics Review
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“Susan Marshall’s How To Grow A Backbone presents an excellent, clear reading by Anna Fields as it tells of ten strategies for gaining power at work.”
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“The unique exercises strengthen this surprisingly refreshing addition to the overly burdened management genre.”
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Details
- Author
- Susan Marshall
- Narrator
- Anna Fields
- Duration
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 June 2005
- ISBN
- 9781481561297
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Management: leadership and motivation, Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, Advice on careers and achieving success
Synopsis
To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Marshall highlights skills every businessperson can learn and sharpen to become stronger, more confident, and more influential on the job.
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