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The Art of Being Indispensable at Work
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The Art of Being Indispensable at Work

by Bruce Tulgan
July 2020
Beginner
256 pages
4h 44m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Author’s Note

I completed this book just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and began killing so many, frightening all of us, and radically disrupting our world. Who could ever have imagined that such grave challenges might be just around the corner?

This book was written to help you succeed in today’s increasingly demanding and uncertain world of work. It is a guide to navigating through constantly shifting priorities and unclear lines of authority. It is about how to think and conduct yourself when there are so many factors outside your control.

Well, the world just got a lot more scary and uncertain. I never anticipated this book being the How to Win Friends and Influence People for the postpandemic era. Nothing in it speaks, ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633698505