The Scorecard at Work: The Official Point System for Keeping Score on the Job - Softcover

Gutfeld, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805058656 ISBN 13: 9780805058659

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

The last career book anyone will ever need! At last, after all those books on clawing your way to the top, here's the real truth about the good and bad moves made in the workplace that determine ultimate success or failure.

You ask interviewees penetrating philosophical questions. +10
"If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" -10
"Do you think I'm cute?" -50
You nickname your office. +5
"The Cave." -10
"The Cool-bicle." -45
You volunteer to organize the softball team and company outings. +5
You call yourself the company "funmeister." -20
It's much easier than your actual job.-60

From your trumped-up résumé to the disastrous company picnic, and covering every aspect of working life including meetings, office antics, fun with machines, and the right and wrong way to ask for a raise, Greg Gutfeld focuses his trademark point system on the place where we all spend the biggest part of our lives.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Gutfeld is a senior writer at Men's Health magazine and the author of The Scorecard (Owl Books, 0-8050-5450-2). He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Gutfeld is an executive writer for Men's Health, where his articles appear regularly, and he has also contributed to such magazines as Prevention and Cosmopolitan. Like his earlier book The Scorecard: The Official Point System for Keeping Score in the Relationship Game (1997), this latest tallysheet seems to have been cloned from the seed of an idea for an amusing article for one of those publications. With a mix of humor, sometimes practical advice, and outrageous hyperbole, Gutfeld turns office politics into a game in which every move either earns or loses points. He covers such sports as resumewriting, interviewing, meetings, presentations, office romance, office technology, and networking. David Rouse

Edition details

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805058656
• ISBN 13: 9780805058659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160