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Title details for How to Grow a Backbone by Susan Marshall - Available

How to Grow a Backbone

10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work

by Susan Marshall
Anna Fields
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To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Marshall highlights skills every businessperson can learn and sharpen to become stronger, more confident, and more influential on the job.

"This book demands that you sit up straight and pay attention. It provides practical and insightful guidelines for gaining control in a workplace typified by chaos, complexity, and rapid change. Marshall challenges us to grow into ourselves—creating a backbone of conviction and strength that allows each of us to take command of our futures." —Paul Sanders, Director, Lessons in Leadership

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  • Release date

    November 9, 2004

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481561280
      • File size: 213966 KB
      • Duration: 07:25:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Backbone--it's that elusive quality that drives business success; it's the guts to speak up and to do things out of the box. Marshall's program is subtitled "10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work." She laments ineffective meetings and lack of support from colleagues, and recommends taking notes and asking questions. Despite a valiant effort to add variation to her tone, Anna Fields, reading the script at an even, slow pace, fails to enliven a dull, drawn-out subject, although she improves some by the second half. A much shorter audio and a more animated narrator would greatly improve this book. A.G.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      August 12, 2002
      Business consultant Marshall shares her advice from working with numerous businesses striving to improve their management structure. Focusing on the difficulties in today's business environment, she wants to help listeners learn how to succeed by building a stronger backbone, defined as a firm and resolute character, and the courage to make and stand by unpopular decisions. After a sound explanation of the three components of backbone competence, confidence, and the ability to take risks the author further develops these elements in her ten backbone-building strategies (e.g., turn meetings into discovery sessions, associate with others on purpose, determine the power sources, and decide and say what you think). The unique exercises strengthen this surprisingly refreshing addition to the overly burdened management genre. The steady narration by Anna Fields slows the pace at times and dulls the attention span, so look for the hard copy to be requested. Recommended for public libraries. Dale Farris, Groves, TX

      Copyright 2002 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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