Who says nice guys finish last? Fully revised and updated for today’s times, Emily Post’s The Etiquette Advantage in Business will show you how to meet the challenges of the business world with the kind of self-confidence and poise that will propel you to the top.
Peggy Post and Peter Post show you how to use personal skills to manage workers more effectively, make longer lasting contacts, win clients and close deals-everything you need to know to get ahead in your career. Scores of new topics are addressed for the first time in this completely revised and updated edition.
The Etiquette Advantage in Business, Second Edition includes practical advice on everything from writing persuasive business memos, letters, and e-mails to choosing the appropriate dress for both casual and formal offices; from planning and leading productive meetings to getting results at trade shows and conventions; from conducting a successful job search to guidelines for business entertaining, from the company picnic to formal dinner parties—and much more, including a detailed primer on the social customs you need to know when doing business abroad.
Peggy Post, Emily Post’s great-granddaughter-in-law, is a director of The Emily Post Institute and the author of more than a dozen books. Peggy writes a monthly column in Good Housekeeping and an online wedding etiquette column for the New York Times.
Peter Post, great-grandson of Emily Post and a passionate golfer, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Essential Manners for Men, Essential Manners for Couples, The Etiquette Advantage in Business (with Anna Post, Lizzie Post, and Daniel Post Senning), and his weekly business etiquette column Etiquette at Work in the Boston Globe. The father of two grown daughters, he lives with his wife in Vermont.