1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work Paperback - 1999
by Nelson PhD, Bob B
- Used
- Paperback
Weaving together case studies, examples, quotes, research highlights, and the author's own "Tool Box" of management techniques and exercises, this practical handbook shows readers how to develop self-leadership, set goals, create learning opportunities, take risks, build a team, sell ideas, and work both within and outside the larger organization.
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Details
- Title 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work
- Author Nelson PhD, Bob B
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Workman Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G076111405XI2N00
- ISBN 9780761114055 / 076111405X
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 6.07 x 0.58 in (20.35 x 15.42 x 1.47 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Employee motivation, Industrial efficiency
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99021940
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.314
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From the rear cover
"Bob Nelson's book shows how employees who take initiative not only create value for their organizations, but for themselves personally and professionally." - Dieter Huckestein, President, Hotel Division, Hilton Hotels Corporation
Whether you're an entry-level assistant or a VP working with the CEO, there's only one person responsible for your career--you. And here to help you realize your potential for success is management guru Bob Nelson, bestselling author of the 1001 Ways series. A unique motivational manual, 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work brings together hundreds of real-life examples, advice from business leaders, and the author's own techniques and exercises to show readers how to draw on inner creativity, develop self-leadership, set goals, take risks, and sell ideas.
"The biggest mistake you can make in life is to think you work for somebody else." -- Bob Nelson
TAKE ACTION--Elaine Crawford, a secretary at Johnsonville Foods, discovers an overlooked market segment, figures out how to reach it, pushers her idea through, and now runs a $3 million mail-order department.
QUESTION AUTHORITY--Feeling that the corporation is poorly managed, IBM programmer Jay Elliot writes a 20-page detailed letter to chairman Tom Watson, Jr.--and his career skyrockets.
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX--Frustrated by bookmarks that keep falling out of his hymnal on Sundays, 3M engineer Art Fry creates the Post-It, today a $300 million business.
TRUST YOUR INTUITION--While still an administrative assistant at Zerox, Joanne Griffin senses opportunity in a project no one wants, directs a team to implement it, and is today a corporate Vice President of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
