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Alexandra Levit is a partner with organizational development firm PeopleResults and the author of eight books, including Humanity Works. She is a former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal and writer for the New York Times, Fast Company, and Forbes. Levit has served as a afficher plus member of Business Roundtable's Springboard Project which advised the Obama administration and has consulted for and spoken at hundreds of organizations around the world. She has been named an American Management Association Top Leader and a Money magazine Online Career Expert of the Year. Levit is a member of the Northwestern University Council of 100 and the Young Entrepreneur Council, and was just named to the Thinkers50's Class of 2019. She lives in Chicago. Visit her at www.alexandralevit.com. afficher moins
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this book was useful but not particularly groundbreaking.
 
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FourFreedoms | 1 autre critique | May 17, 2019 |
this book was useful but not particularly groundbreaking.
 
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ShiraDest | 1 autre critique | Mar 6, 2019 |
You are fresh out of college, and you have just gotten your first corporate/white collar job. Aside from wearing a suit on your first day, what do you do?

If you have a lot of tattoos or piercings, strongly consider covering or removing them. This is just until you get familiar with your fellow employees, and they get familiar with you. As boring as it sounds, read the new employee handouts. It will include important stuff, like the company's smoking policy (if you are a smoker), and the number of vacation days that you have available (for the first couple of months, don't take any time off).

Get to know your nearby cubicle inhabitants. Some of them will be friendly and approachable, and some will not; don't worry about it. Realize that there is a difference between fellow employees who are good to have lunch with, and friends you can call when you significant other has just broken up with you. Sit down with your immediate boss, and iron out just what your duties are, and how often the performance evaluation (or other feedback) will be.

You will be given lots of boring, grunt work to do that you may consider beneath you. Just be quiet, and do it; it's called "paying your dues." Besides, it never hurts to show your boss, instead of trying to tell your boss, just how good an employee you really are. In meetings, it might be tempting to say that, in school we did it this way, or, at my previous job, we did it that way. In the first few months, don't do it; your job is to listen and learn.

Some of your fellow employees will be"difficult," at best. Take several deep breaths, count to ten, or get in your car and scream and curse, but don't lash out at them in the office. If you do, you will be the one with the attitude problem. Other employees are going to try to get you to do their work for them. Learn how to say no, without really saying no.

This is an absolute gem of a book. It will answer a lot of questions before they are asked. Large companies should in the habit of including a copy of this book (there is a more recent third edition available) with the handouts given to all new hires. It is very much worth reading.
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plappen | Apr 11, 2016 |
Alexandra Levit calls out those business myths we’ve heard repeatedly in her latest book Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can’t Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success. Beliefs such as overnight success is possible, do what you love and the money will follow, job performance trumps everything, climb the corporate ladder as soon as possible, and you won’t get laid off if you’re too essential.

Levit is a premier expert in her field, authoring several books (Blind Spots is her sixth book) and regularly addressing major corporations about issues in the workplace. She also has an award winning blog, was chosen as Money magazine’s best online career expert, and writes in a clear, candid, personable voice driven by a deep purpose to guide those trying to make their way through the business world. She’s been there herself; she faced it all early in her career, and that has fueled her compassion to help others succeed.

I find that many business and career self-help books are either bogged down in facts and figures, or go on and on with simplistic and boring anecdotes, which can dull the mind. Levit has spoken to numerous sources and filled her pages with useful, enlightening research. For instance in her chapter “Overnight Success is Possible,” she writes that most people set unrealistic timelines for their goals, underestimating the time it takes to achieve those goals. She writes that it takes ten thousand hours of work to reach the top level of a particular discipline, making overnight success nearly impossible.

Levit also shares that as much as you think you’re invaluable to a company, it’s important to have a platform, a website, blog, anything to promote what you do and what you believe in. She also handles what to do if you do get fired, how to stave off firing, and why leaving the corporate world for entrepreneurship isn’t the best idea for everyone.

My favorite myth: Do what you love and the money will follow. How many times have we heard that saying? She completely debunks it, reminding the reader that only a very few do what they love and make money from it. It is simply not possible to select any field and expect to make a good living, despite how much you love it, despite how hard you work. The solution, she says, is to select a career that you like well enough that also earns you sufficient pay to live comfortably. Also become an expert at something; it’s more likely to create career passion than going after a dream career.

Finally, as for that dream career, Levit writes that a person who is fortunate enough to start making money with a dream job often finds that the situation isn’t so dreamy after all. He or she expects that the job will fulfill personally and professionally, at all times, and when the stress that’s associated with working sets in, that passion may begin to wane.

Levit is not dashing anyone’s dreams. She is being positively realistic. Isn’t this the best advice? Too much dreamy advice from business and self-help books, it’s best to leave those in the clouds. In a bad economy, we need workable solutions, not lofty ideals. Her encouraging voice gives the answers that we all need to hear.
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