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Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9780071544238
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0071544232
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Release Date: July 07, 2008
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review:The New York Times Bestseller
WIN THE WAR FOR SUCCESS
It's not enough anymore to be smart, hard-working, and able to show results; At this level, everybody is smart, hard-working, and able to show results. Now it's a game for grown-ups. What really sets you apart is the relationships you build with people of influence. These people can include your peers, your employees, your organization's directors, reporters, vendors, and regulators-as well as the people directly above you in the organizational hierarchy.
In senior management, you no longer answer to just one boss. There is now a hazy matrix of hundreds of bosses both inside and outside the office, any one of whom can stop you cold or give you a tremendous push forward. Executive Warfare offers concrete advice for handling all of them, including - YOUR PEERS: They are the most valuable of allies or the most dangerous of enemies
- THE CEO: Her office is often where the real fairy dust is kept. Make sure you have a good relationship here
- THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: They won't judge you fairly if all they see of you is your PowerPoints
- YOUR DIRECT REPORTS: They are your vital organs, so treat them accordingly. And if you find a blood clot among them-excise that person before he kills you
- YOUR RIVALS: It's not always wise to shoot at them, but if you do, do not shoot to wound
In his bestsellers Brand Warfare and Career Warfare, author David D'Alessandro offered sharp advice for building a brand and building a career. Now Executive Warfare is the advanced class for the truly ambitious. Learn what it takes to rise to the top-and to do the even harder thing, which is survive there.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Strictly for Executives and Senior Management
Make no mistake: David D'Alessandro knows what he's talking about. His previous "Warfare" book, the excellent Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Sucessful Personal Brand on the Business Battlefield, laid out the steps to a successful career for anyone working as a white collar professional. "Executive Warfare," however, is more narrow in its aim: It is focused exclusively on senior managers and executives. Are there really enough executives out there to make this a bestseller? I believe that ... Read More
Rating:  - If you want to rise to the top, read this book
If you want to rise to the top of your organization, read this book. Many times.
The ideas in this book (if properly executed) are worth $1 million to $100 million (or may be more).
Also recommended: Career Warfare.
I would be happy to pay good money for any work by D'Alessandro and Michele Owens. I hope the next book by the duo is about how to hunt (for business).
In the book David D'Alessandro thanks his father and his father's namesake, ... Read More
Rating: - How to win a "combat game for grown-ups"
With Michele Owens, David D'Alessandro has written another book whose title and subtitle suggest direct correlations between the battlefield and the business world. What sets this book apart from almost all of the others is the fact that he includes no references to Sun Tzu's The Art of War nor to Carl von Clauswitz' On War. I also appreciate the fact that D'Alessandro establishes, develops, and then sustains a direct rapport with his reader. The informal, indeed conversational tone is precisely ... Read More
Rating: - Executive Warfare MAY NOT Prepare You For Warfare
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2H45HCT2VREJQ The Three Points I hit on in the video are as follows:
1. win win situations
2. peer and subordinate support
3. know your strengths
A book that may prepare you for warfare, by increasing your ability to acquire knowledge is Don't Like to Read, Then Don't, Listen!: How to Turn Any Type of Text Into Audio Files That Can Be Read to You!
Rating: - Informed, Practical, And About Half The Total Solution
I would put this in my top five favorite books for management just behind Hubbard's How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business and Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
D'Alessandro has written a sort of The Art Of War for upper management. Everything I read in his book is something I can directly relate to my own experiences and probably would have been good advice at the time. Executive Warfare is a little touchy-feely after a read ... Read More
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