Keeping Your Career on Track - Avoiding Derailment, Enriching the Work Experience and Helping Your Organization

Career derailment, found at all organizational levels in the workplace, is under-documented. Most books examining how careers go off track deal with abstract concepts and focus only on top executives. This book defines 99 potentially career-ending pitfalls, illustrated with real-world examples, and offers specific advice to employees at all levels in business, nonprofit, military, government and other organizations.
Topics include the consequences of power and pleasing, the illusion of immunity, meeting behavior, corrective feedback, ineffective image, nonverbal behavior, self-serving analysis and the perception of management as a science. Perspectives are provided on avoiding the indirect hazards of working with superiors or subordinates who may be on the path to derailment. A reader self-assessment is included.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: Self-Sabotage

1.¿Derailment by Zipper

2.¿Derailment by Suicidal Meeting Behavior

3.¿Derailment by Political Quicksand

Part II: Insight Deficits

4.¿Derailment by Feedback Immunity

5.¿Derailment by Image Mismanagement

6.¿Derailment by Communication Constipation

Part III: Faulty Behavioral Wiring

7.¿Derailment by Big Feet

8.¿Derailment by a Big Heart

9.¿Derailment by a Big Head

Part IV: Incompatible Needs

10.¿Derailment by the Need to Be Right

11.¿Derailment by the Need to Be Nasty

12.¿Derailment by the Need to Be Busy

Part V: Warped Perceptions

13.¿Derailment by Gunnysack

14.¿Derailment by Fantasy

15.¿Derailment by ­Cross-Cultural Blindness

Part VI: Misdirected Loyalties

16.¿Derailment by Functional Fixedness

17.¿Derailment by Diversity Adversity

18.¿Derailment by ­Sub-Unit Arrogance

Part VII: Dysfunctional Traits

19.¿Derailment by Charisma

20.¿Derailment by Irrelevance

21.¿Derailment by Avoidance

Appendix A: The Derailment Risk Assessment Inventory

Appendix B: The 21 Derailment Risk Categories

Appendix C: The 99 Derailment Hazards

References

Index

About the author

David Noer is an honorary senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership and professor emeritus at Elon University. He has written a wide range of articles, seven books, numerous book chapters and leadership research studies. He is the former editor of the Organization Development Practitioner and member of the Organization Development Board of Directors. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: David Noer
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2016
• EAN: 9781476664484
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6448-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Success, Advice on careers & achieving success, Advice on careers and achieving success