{"product_id":"who-gets-promoted-who-doesnt-and-why-second-edition-isbn-9781607746003","title":"Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why, Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revised and updated edition of the career advancement guide that advocates working smarter, not harder, from one of America's premier career consultants.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDo your job, do it well, and you’ll be rewarded, right? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eActually, probably not. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e According to career guru Donald Asher, advancement at work is less about skillsets and more about strategy. The revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eWHO GETS PROMOTED, WHO DOESN’T, AND WHY\u003c\/i\u003e details exactly what puts one employee on the fast track to an exceptional career, while another stays on the treadmill to mediocrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether you’re new to the workforce, repairing a recession-damaged career, or feeling stagnant and overlooked at work, this book is your ticket to advancement. Learn:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e∙ why timing is more important than talent\u003cbr\u003e∙ how corporations \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c\/i\u003e make promotion decisions \u003cbr\u003e∙ how to avoid career mistakes \u003ci\u003eyou don’t even know you’re making\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e∙ what \u003ci\u003ewomen\u003c\/i\u003e in the workforce particularly need to know \u003cbr\u003e∙ and the twelve proven strategies for promotion regardless of \u003cbr\u003e   your industry and experience  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you want to know how to control your career destiny, the solution is to work smarter, not harder. \u003ci\u003eWHO GETS PROMOTED, WHO DOESN’T, AND WHY\u003c\/i\u003e will help you do just that.Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Respect Timing \u003cbr\u003e2 Get Noticed \u003cbr\u003e3 Always Be Learning \u003cbr\u003e4 Master the Art of Sales \u003cbr\u003e5 Have an Ascension Plan \u003cbr\u003e6 Always Make Your Boss Look Good \u003cbr\u003e7 Stand Next to Superstars\u003cbr\u003e8 Find Guardian Angels and Benefactors\u003cbr\u003e9 Move—Dammit—and Here’s Why \u003cbr\u003e10 Know How to Repair Your Career \u003cbr\u003e11 Women: Take Control of Your Career! \u003cbr\u003e12 Find the Right Mix of Prepared and Lucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex“I doubled my income with the tips in this book!”\u003cbr\u003e —Adele Liss, public relations executive, San FranciscoDONALD ASHER is one of America’s premier career consultants and a featured speaker at conferences and colleges coast to coast. He is a contributing writer for the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal’s\u003c\/i\u003e CareerJournal.com, MSN Encarta, as well as magazines and newspapers nationwide.\u003ci\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear Reader,  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Thank you for picking up this book. It has the potential to change your life. Everything that happens to you from this point on can be different. You can have a different outcome, a different future—different from other workers, and different from the other you, the one who didn’t pick up this book, the one who didn’t try to maneuver for promotion.\u003cbr\u003e This little book went around the world in the media, and was named career management book of the year in Joyce Lain Kennedy’s nationally syndicated column, Careers Now. The award-winning career portal QuintCareers named me a “Career Mastermind” because of this book. When you register that you have accepted a job offer at Columbia Business School’s MBA program, they hand you this book. Many other graduate and undergraduate programs use the book in the same way. “You got a job? Great. Now use this book to create a reputation and get promoted.” I deeply appreciate career centers and all that they do for students. Thousands upon thousands of you, readers from around the world, have used this book to achieve your goals, and I look forward to each and every one of your emails and stories. Your success is eternally gratifying to me. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The tips from the book that seemed to resonate the most, according to your reviews and in your letters and emails, were these:\u003cbr\u003e • A promotion is never a reward, it’s a prediction.\u003cbr\u003e • Irreplaceable people cannot be promoted, ever.\u003cbr\u003e • There is a structural bias in favor of hiring from outside rather than promoting from within, and you must provide certain specific assurances to overcome that bias.\u003cbr\u003e You’ll see these, and much, much more, in the following pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first edition was a bit of a risk. My editors weren’t sure if it made sense to write a book just for top performers and highly ambitious people. I believed that there was plenty of reason to do it. First of all, the majority of workers don’t read any career books at all, so an author is automatically writing for the top half of all careerists. But I knew there were smart, ambitious people out there who could put these principles into play, who didn’t need the kind of rudimentary advice in other guides, who didn’t need to pay money to read advice like this: “Polish your shoes.” I wrote this book for smart, ambitious, hard-working, accomplished contributors. It’s the opposite of remedial. It’s about \u003ci\u003eoptimizing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003emaximizing\u003c\/i\u003e your career experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The tips and techniques that made this book a success did not come from me. They came from the highly ambitious people I met in my career coaching business. I spent twenty years studying what fast-track careerists do, and I have distilled \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e advice, and \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e strategies and techniques, into this tome. I am merely the vessel. The content comes from the real experts, that is, people who get promoted, again and again, throughout their careers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By the way, you do not need to decide to become a fast-track careerist to use the techniques in this book to solve a career problem. You may not become one of those people who will move to Outer Siberia if it will lead to career advancement, or who will turn your entire private life over to a concierge so you can grind out insane hours to win a promotion. You can use these techniques at will, ad hoc, when and how you need them, to best a rival, fix a problem with your boss, improve your reputation, and so on. The techniques work when and how you choose to deploy them. I invite you, however, to push your limits. The fast-track careerists are onto something. If you love your job, you’re pretty likely to like your life. Most of the fast-track careerists who gave me tips for this book love to work, and they love \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c\/i\u003e work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The other source of information for this book came from human resources professionals, the people who have to decide whom to promote and whom to pass over, whom to offer a stretch assignment and whom to reassign into a less responsible role. Some of the best warnings about what \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e to do came from them, the most important of which is: Don’t go over your boss’s head without her permission, ever (see chapter 6).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Young people, in particular, don’t seem to get this warning, and it is just as sound advice today as it was a generation ago. Sure, you can email anyone in America today and, yes, we do have the First Amendment, but a lack of consideration of why this is a rule will land you in big trouble with the one person who most controls your destiny, your boss. Mess this one up and you’ll not be needing a promotion, you’ll be needing a new job. Many readers wrote to me about this advice from the first edition, and expressed appreciation for it being so forcefully presented. “I get it, now,” they said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There was something missing from the first edition, however, which became glaringly obvious when Sheryl Sandberg released her bestseller, \u003ci\u003eLean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead\u003c\/i\u003e. There really are gender differences in play at work. Sandberg meant to throw down a gauntlet and respark the feminist movement. I think she has changed the face of career planning, and changed the center of gravity toward individual women and their choices and away from large social forces. In other words, I think she has established that women can choose and act within a system rather than be acted upon by that system. She did a wonderful job, a public service, and it is certainly a public service she did not \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c\/i\u003e to do. No billionaire has to write a book, let me assure you. You have to read \u003ci\u003eLean In\u003c\/i\u003e and you have to check out the movement she launched at leanin.org and hundreds of websites and blogs that are inspired by this work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I have woven some of these concepts into this book here and there, but I have also crafted an entirely new chapter about women in the workplace, chapter 11, “Women: Take Control of  Your Career!” Whether you are a woman, work with women, or have important women in your life, I hope you will take something from it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The flip side of this is that I discovered there are still some Neanderthal young men out there. I thought they were a dying breed, but my correspondents and certain news items assure me they still exist. I put a rather strong warning beginning on page 43 about that, which I consider part of acknowledging gender differences in the workplace. Again, whether you are a young man, work with young men, or care about a young man, this is an absolutely critical piece for them to grasp. Apparently, social networks and the education\u003cbr\u003e system have failed to provide this absolutely critical piece of information. And, by the way, I do consider this remedial—remedial but necessary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Finally, in this edition I have beefed up my coverage of what to do if your career stalls. I have a full chapter on career repair, chapter 10, “Know How to Repair Your Career,” beginning on page 159. As part of this, I have improved my coverage of what to do about the crazy and mean people you may have the pleasure to encounter at work. I explicate a career repair system that includes more about when and how to change jobs to advance, which is not part of the other chapters. One gets promoted inside a company, but sometimes you have to give yourself a promotion by abandoning your current employer and seeking a better opportunity elsewhere. If you suspect your career needs repair—for example, you are way more than one promotion away from where you belong—you might start with that chapter first, then restart the book from the beginning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Readers like you have improved the book, and I hope you will give\u003cbr\u003e me your stories to improve the next edition (don@donaldasher.com). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My very best wishes for your continued success,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Asher","brand":"Ten Speed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299954151653,"sku":"NP9781607746003","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781607746003.jpg?v=1767744147","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/who-gets-promoted-who-doesnt-and-why-second-edition-isbn-9781607746003","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}