Stealing the Corner Office

AppendixYour New Career Playbook

Never Be Passionate About Your Ideas

Here are a few guidelines you can use to develop the extremely powerful image of objectivity. Incorporate them into your game plan and they’ll never let you down.

Always present options. Even if you’re convinced you know the correct strategy, you must always present alternative courses of action. We’re taught to do this in business school, but you rarely see it executed effectively in a high-paced corporate setting.

Don’t present fake options. Presenting bogus options in hopes ...