Working Without a Net (Original)

Like tightrope walkers suddenly forced to perform without a net, American employees now face a high-risk environment where job security, career advancement, and organizational stability are no longer guaranteed. Working Without a Net is the perfect guide to success in this too-familiar corporate culture. It shows you how to let go of outdated and unrealistic expectations and replace them instead with practical, self-motivating "rules of the game" that let you establish independence from external forces and foster career and personal growth from within. In straightforward, easy-to-understand language, this uplifting guide teaches you the skills and knowledge you'll need to pave your own road to success - no matter what circumstances alter your journey or stand in your way. This amazing book gives powerful exercises and techniques that sharpen decision-making, relationship-building, risk-taking, and other critical skills needed to survive in today's high risk culture; growth and success strategies that help you expand your capacity for change, set realistic goals, and cope with unexpected loss and setbacks; guidelines for overcoming common obstacles, such as confused and self-defeating values, lack of accountability, and ill-defined goals; steps for managing conflict and anger, plus advice on where your loyalties should lie in a high risk culture; ways to identify and resolve typical "control" issues in high-stress environments, and forge your way to autonomy and self-direction; plus so much more. With unique insight and far-reaching perspective, Working Without A Net empowers you to tackle new challenges, new jobs, and new circumstances - expected and unexpected - with confidence andsuccess.