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A Business Guidebook for Minority Professionals In corporate America, working your way up the ladder means following a process. Until you understand this process, Keith R. Wyche warns, you might be stuck on the lower rungs. Many minority professionals already understand that ”good is not enough” for advancement. As a minority in business today – the minority president of the United States not withstanding – you still must be better at your job than your majority peers to gain the same rewards and recognition. However, even an exemplary performance alone is not enough. To know what else you need, heed Wyche’s advice as he explains the importance of public perceptions, personal branding and visibility, networking, mentoring, developing a long-term career plan and identifying potential career killers. His tips are valuable not only to his targeted readers – midmanagement minorities – but also to their majority counterparts. getAbstract recommends his astute counsel to minority professionals and to anyone else who is climbing that ladder toward a “C” title.
I listened to this audio book on long travels this summer and found myself fascinated by the main character's incredible ability to survive despite the most amazing odds.
The Amis book with an ending. Really funny and well-plotted and exuberantly languaged like Nabokov. So many American writers (the ones I know) over-value a simple style, are afraid of fat, passionate, in-your-face baroque. This is a good entray into that style.
I was very disappointed in this book. I found the plot to be very predictable, the characters under-developed, the pacing was slow, and the dialogue mundane. I don’t understand this constant comparison between Jane Austen and Cathleen Schine. Austen writes with such charm, appeal and an attractiveness. Her words flow along like a maple leaf rippling over the water on a stream. I’m just left shaking my head, puffing out my lips that I’m finally finished and thinking it was even more difficult to read, in part, due to my yawning! Sorry, in good conscience, I just could not give this one a good review.
Set in the post-apocalyptic society of Jefferson, this is the story of Sunshine Sue and Clear-Blue Lou, two protagonists. It's a kind of metaphor for our times, like all scifi, but it also boasts an unbelievable ending (in more ways than one) and some unforgettable characters. Spacers vs. Hippies - who could ask for more?
Classic space opera. Re-read 12/12. One of the lesser in the series I thought.