How to Make the World of Work Work for You: A Common Sense Operating Manual for a Successful Career - Softcover

Greenwood, Ramon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587219026 ISBN 13: 9781587219023

Publisher: 1st Book Library, 2000

Synopsis

You crave the rewards of a successful career. You have the basic professional competence to earn them. Yet you are missing the promotions and bigger paychecks. Others, no more qualified, are getting ahead of you. Why?

Because these achievers understand how to translate their "know-what-to-do"skills into winning "how-to-get-things done" strategies and actions.

You can learn how they do it and get the rewards you deserve by reading Ramon Greenwood's book and sharing with him the lessons he has learned from his years of experience as a Senior Vice President at American Express, career coach, author, consultant and director of a variety of businesses.

About this title

About the Author

Greenwood began the world of work as a common laborer in the sweat pits of country sawmills. Through the years, he worked in the power offices of the federal government in the nation's capital, the elegant towers of American Express's New York City headquarters, and offices of the powerful around the world, to successful entrepreneurship, to his career as a career counselor.

Greenwood's experiences include serving as:

* Senior vice president for worldwide communications at American Express.
* Vice president-public affairs, Consolidated Foods Corporation (now Sara Lee Corporation).
* Senior public affairs officer, U. S. Department of Transportation.
* Director for American Express Publishing Company, American Express International, Inc., and American Express Foundation; Simmons First National Banking Corporation; two consumer goods companies; as well as a chain of supermarkets and an advertising-public relations agency.
* Co-founder of two consumer goods companies.
* Founder and president of Wave 9 Enterprises and Career Counselors, firms engaged in consulting on personal and business strategies.
* Author of six books, Common Sense At Work blog, as well as various ezine articles and e-books, designed to provide take-it-to-the-bank career counseling that ambitious men and women can apply to their journey along the road to success.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587219026
• ISBN 13: 9781587219023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248