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Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed
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Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed

by F. William Smullen
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 16m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Treat Every Day as Game Day

Unlike a conditioned athlete who warms up before an exercise or an athletic competition, most people rely on their energy level or metabolic rate to start and survive the day. That’s all well and good, but it’s not good enough.

The world in which we are living is moving at warp speed with more challenges and changes than ever before. To keep up with all that lies before us, we need conditioning and we need capacity.

Conditioning comes with maintaining a pace that allows us to accomplish the most, reprioritize the rest, and prepare for the unexpected. Capacity is the ability to reach back and down to draw on extra ...

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ISBN: 9780071825245