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Rick Adamson
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Dan Rust
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A career advisor explains why many talented, hardworking people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win.
While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns, failed projects, downsizing and restructuring, or just bad bosses or bad timing, we all know of colleagues who continue to rise through every tough situation. Most assume that they have advantages that protect them - degrees from the right schools, great mentors, influential friends and family, or just better luck. But these hypersuccessful professionals have faced setbacks, too. Instead of allowing challenges to derail their rises, they've learned how to manage them better.
In Workplace Poker, Dan Rust gives you the strategies you need to accelerate your career and prevent setbacks from stalling your progress or spiraling it downward. The trick, he reveals, is to "play the game under the game" - to think more deeply and act more strategically. If you are talented, ambitious, and hardworking but feel your career just isn't accelerating as rapidly as it should or as fast as you would like it to, this book is for you. If you have been frustrated to see others (less talented, who don't work as hard as you do) achieve rapid professional progress while your career stalls out, this book is for you. If you've been annoyed by those who are successful primarily because of where they went to school, family connections, or financial resources, this book is for you.
Rust gives you the insight and skills you need to transform yourself and adapt to and survive any hurdle - to turn every adversity into advantage and every struggle into strength, including:
- Recognition of your own "blind spots" and what to do about them
- Mastering strategic and authentic self-promotion
- Enhancing your personal charm and likeability
- Achieving the high energy, both mental and physical, necessary to drive an exceptional career trajectory
- Developing an interest in "corporate anthropology" and the complex human dimensions of business
- Neutralizing the career-stalling impact of difficult or dysfunctional colleagues
- Deeply owning and learning from career missteps and failures
In his smart, funny, relatable voice, Rust shares stories of individuals who have applied these capabilities in real-world situations and provides short, focused exercises to help you think about yourself and your own career. With Workplace Poker, you'll learn how to get out of your own way and find the success you deserve.
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Stop networking. Seriously, stop doing it. Now. It is time to ditch the old networking-for networking's-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections. In Superconnector, Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh reveal a new category of professionals born out of the social media era: highly valuable community-builders who make things happen through their keen understanding and utilization of social capital. Superconnectors understand the power of relationship-building, problem-solve by connecting the dots at high levels.
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Very Long Ad
- By Vincent Oliver on 04-30-18
By: Scott Gerber, and others
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The Crux
- How Leaders Become Strategists
- By: Richard P. Rumelt
- Narrated by: Richard P. Rumelt, Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Richard P. Rumelt’s breakthrough concept is that leaders become effective strategists when they focus on challenges rather than goals, pinpointing the crux of their pivotal challenge—the aspect that is both surmountable and promises the greatest progress—and taking decisive, coherent action to overcome it.
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Excellent
- By Brad on 05-29-22
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How We Change
- (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't)
- By: Ross Ellenhorn
- Narrated by: Nathan Agin
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit or negative behavior pattern, we feel a sense of failure when we don’t succeed. This often sets off a cascade of negative feelings and discouragement, making it even harder to change. The voice in our head tells us: Why bother.
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Amazing! A must listen
- By greygreen on 03-26-21
By: Ross Ellenhorn
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Synchronicity
- The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
- By: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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By 100 years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. And then quantum mechanics happened, introducing spooky connections that seemed to circumvent the law of cause and effect. From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world.
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Good enough for lay audience, but lacks depth
- By James S. on 10-12-20
By: Paul Halpern
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Accountable
- The Rise of Citizen Capitalism
- By: Michael O'Leary, Warren Valdmanis
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them - corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control - risk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O’Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.
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mandatory reading
- By joseph on 02-01-21
By: Michael O'Leary, and others
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You Can't Screw This Up
- Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress Out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts
- By: Adam Bornstein
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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What if the healthiest diet included the foods that were enjoyable and respectful of our stressful, overbooked lives? You couldn’t screw it up! Here’s a can’t-miss plan that will build unbreakable habits by incorporating mindset changes, easy restaurant options, and more from “the perfect person to blaze a better path” (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
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Finally! A magic pill ;-)
- By Dan Y on 05-25-23
By: Adam Bornstein
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Stealing the Corner Office
- The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School
- By: Brendan Reid
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Stealing the Corner Office is mandatory listening for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. It is a unique collection of controversial but highly effective tactics for middle managers and aspiring executives who want to learn the real secrets for moving up the corporate ladder. Unlike virtually all other business books, Stealing the Corner Office explores the unconventional tactics people less competent than you use to get ahead and stay ahead.
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VILEST BOOK EVER, BUT SO APTLY TITLED!
- By Nothing really matters on 06-05-16
By: Brendan Reid
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Crow Planet
- Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
- By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature". Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order.
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Thought this would be better
- By K Dod on 09-08-20
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The Extended Mind
- The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
- By: Annie Murphy Paul
- Narrated by: Annie Murphy Paul
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Use your head. That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain. A host of “extra-neural” resources—the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us— can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.
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Must Read for Artists, Designers, Strategists
- By Cassie Phillips on 05-28-22
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The Geek Way
- The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
- By: Andrew McAfee
- Narrated by: Andrew McAfee, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It's not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with "winning." But it explains everything from why Montessori babies turn out to be creative tinkerers to how newcomers are disrupting industry after industry (and still just getting started).
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The geek way is one of many way!
- By Butler187 on 11-20-24
By: Andrew McAfee
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The Art of Business Wars
- Battle-Tested Lessons for Leaders and Entrepreneurs from History's Greatest Rivalries
- By: David Brown
- Narrated by: David Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Based on the chart-topping Business Wars podcast, stories, and lessons from history’s greatest business rivalries, interspersed with audio clips from the podcast. Using Chinese military genius Sun Tzu’s strategies as a guide, Brown examines why some companies triumph while others crumble....
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Just a repeat of the pod cast…..
- By Vm2008 on 02-01-22
By: David Brown
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- By: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
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I was there...
- By Marcheta on 08-29-16
By: Joel Selvin
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Willpower Doesn't Work
- By: Benjamin Hardy
- Narrated by: Benjamin Hardy
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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We rely on willpower to create change in our lives...but what if we're thinking about it all wrong? In Willpower Doesn't Work, Benjamin Hardy explains that willpower is nothing more than a dangerous fad—one that is bound to lead to failure. Instead of "white-knuckling" your way to change, you need to instead alter your surroundings to support your goals. This book shows you how.
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Poor execution
- By Axle on 09-18-18
By: Benjamin Hardy
Where does Workplace Poker rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This book is in the top 10 of the audiobooks I've listened to so far.What was one of the most memorable moments of Workplace Poker?
The section about creating a performance portfolio and using it during annual reviews.Have you listened to any of Dan Rust and Rick Adamson ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, I have not listened to any of Dan or Rick's other books before. I will be seeking them out though, that's for sure.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, but I was always happy when it was time to listen again. I listen on my way into work each morning and I always arrived at work with a positive attitude and ideas for building my career.Any additional comments?
Lots of good resources on the website that are referenced in the book.Solid Advice and Good Example Stories
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Abundant Practical Suggestions
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I also enjoy the dry sense of humor, the author has.
Great stuff
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I searched online and bought it when I had a major issue in my workplace, thinking I was treated unfairly. My motivation was down, and I was very angry. I had been angry for days and seemed that I couldn’t get out of that situation. After listening to this book, I realized that all of my issues in my workplace are my OWN responsibilities but nobody else’s. That realization pulled me quickly out of the trap of self-pity, and I was able to analyze the whole situation objectively instead of deal with it emotionally. I have made some positive changes and are much happier now. Now I am listening to it the 2nd time, trying to learn more from this little book that full of gems.
On another note, one of my kids texted me that this book was sooo good! Good luck for her internship.
A must read for your life
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so applicable to me!
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Put to practice, the principles are sound
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This is a different kind of book.
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Great insight into taking control of your career
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incredibly helpful
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Eveything
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