Quit Your Job Often and Get Big Raises! - The Smart Approach to Making a Lot More Money at Work

Informationen zum Autor Gordon Miller Klappentext Instead of simply waiting around! getting fed up! and finally quitting at the worst possible moment! as so many of us have been tempted to do! Gordon Miller has developed a system for quitting strategically -- and improving your pay and career opportunities at the same time. This is a real-world practical guide for dramatically increasing wages! as told by an average working stiff who quit four jobs in five years and tripled his pay. The pithy Quit Your Job Often and Get Big Raises! was a self-published phenomenon that has continued to sell in its Main Street edition. The Rules Have Changed: Or How to Make Lemonade When They Hand You Lemons On July 13, 1997, two days after I quit my fourth job in five years, the most interesting thing happened. I got three job offers and a 30 percent pay increase. Why, you ask? Simple . . . The Rules Have Changed. There are several reasons for the changes: the globalization of the economy (over 50 percent of Hewlett-Packard's income is now derived from overseas markets--and they are only one of many), mergers and acquisitions, new advances in technology and the concept of outsourcing noncore functions. The entire business economy has changed. The old ways may no longer be effective. Companies are changing strategies in order to stay competitive. They are realizing that they must not only be willing to change but be willing to change quickly in response to new technologies, to new business and manufacturing demands. At one time business drove the market; today it's the other way around. Twenty-five years ago it was a different story. In the fifties and sixties, long-term manufacturing and business planning was a viable activity. And in those days long-term meant years. (I mean, how much difference was there between a 1951 and a 1961 toaster?) Now, long-term is more likely measured in months, sometimes weeks. Technology dictates a fundamental change in attitude and outlook. The feeling that everything is going a lot faster is not an illusion. To Market, to Market, to Market We Go . . . And you'd better hurry, because if you don't . . . Well, need we say more? The corporate landscape is littered with the abandoned dreams of businesses that were not in a position to be flexible and responsive. Workers, too. Faster than anyone could have imagined, 286's became 386's, which became 486's, which seemingly overnight turned into Pentiums and Workstations and Lans and Wans and God knows what else. What's next? State-of-the-art is what's in the morning mail. And that's each morning's mail. As in e-mail. The Old Model says that Workers are faithful, loyal, trustworthy and true; they toil long and hard and get small annual raises, work at least five years before a Promotion comes along, at least another five before an actual Position is available. From there, it's ten years' minimum to a Desk and a tie and a small plastic placard with your name on it. GORDON MILLER. You've arrived. At last. But if the process was slow, at least it was usually reliable. Usually . . . Your loyalty was to some extent returned. (That was in the days before the Merger and Acquisition Monster was born. Such a cute baby. How could we have known?) Of course, as you know by now, that kind of loyalty is a thing of the past. It is dead. D-e-a-d. Why? Because it's no longer good business. Companies have to change quickly or they won't be in business very long . . . Goodbye, Mr. and Mrs. Worker. You're not the Mr. and Mrs. Worker we need for this project. See ya . . . Oh, companies still talk about loyalty. They have Human Resources Departments, Employee Assistance Programs, and they will tell you that loyalty is important, but the truth is you'll be down-sized right out the door so fast you'll get a nosebleed when and if the company decides that you no l...

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Miller
• Publisher: Main Street Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.1998
• EAN: 9780385495936
• ISBN: 978-0-385-49593-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career