Smash the Pyramid: 100 Career Secrets from America's Fastest-Rising Executives

Focusing on personal career strategies as offered by successful business people from various industries, a management guide reveals the secrets to admitting mistakes, emotional detachment, accurate performance appraisal, and more.

Authors Doyle and Perkins, both former advertising executives, have written a book-length version of what might have been an interesting article in an airline magazine. It is the kind of article you read because it looks mildly diverting and not because you expect to learn important truths about organizational life. Sixty anonymous young, upwardly mobile corporate whizzes were interviewed to learn the secrets of their success. The simplistic advice they offer is not related to specific organizational cultures, so the reader cannot be sure that their "secrets" will work in other situations. In these days of corporate downsizing, readers are understandably interested in learning survival skills. They will learn precious few from this book.
Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J
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