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The Fast Track Formula Alan Robertson

The Fast Track Formula By Alan Robertson

The Fast Track Formula by Alan Robertson


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Summary

Perhaps you look for more senior positions elsewhere, but can't seem to land one. This is the book that will help you change up a gear so that you can and do make that shift. It also makes sure that you'll be highly successful when you get there.

The Fast Track Formula Summary

The Fast Track Formula: how to accelerate your career by Alan Robertson

There are several routes to senior management. But only one of them ensures that you'll be successful when you get there. Understanding and following that route will help you rise through the ranks faster, give you a competitive advantage every step of the way, and make you a success when you get that coveted senior position.

Interestingly most successful senior executives don't even realise the route they followed or the shift they made along the way, until they are questioned about it. When prompted, they will tell you that there was a shift in their thinking, and that was the turning point in their career.

So there is a shift that has to occur in you, for you to progress and succeed at each level in the corporate hierarchy. This is the first book to reveal what that shift is, and how you make it happen in yourself, before explaining how you then need to communicate this changed thinking to the world around you.

The shift starts in your thinking but it is reflected in what you say, what you do and how you behave and must therefore be very visible to everyone you work with - especially those who have the power to single you out for promotion at every stage.
To become a fast track candidate you have to know and understand the fast track formula. Are you ready for the fast track?

The Fast Track Formula Reviews

"... a really useful tool when, more than ever before, you are responsible for your own employability."

- Business Executive

About Alan Robertson

Alan Robertson is an independent management consultant who has advised businesses in a wide range of sectors including professional services, manufacturing, public utilities, financial services, publishing, education and healthcare. His work is aimed at helping individuals and organisations to meet new and emerging challenges and much of his time is devoted to personal coaching and group facilitation.

Alan has degrees in modern history, business administration and psychology. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a member of the British Psychological Society and a Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield University.

Table of Contents

Thanks to...

Acknowledgements...

Introducing...An ambitious little book

A provocative proposition

The shape of things to come

Assumptions

Part One: The Nature of the Track

Chapter 1: Careering Along
A glance in the mirror
Controlling the pace
Where next?

Chapter 2: The Hidden Structure of Careers
A mysterious parcel
The changing nature of work
A new view of the pyramid
The accelerators
Understanding your own track
Contextual hotspots
Where next?

Part Two: Mental Agility

Chapter 3: Higher-Order Thinking (HOT Stuff)
Thinking at the edge
Your current thinking challenges
Is your thinking up to it?
How do you think?
Characteristics of higher-order thinking
Developing higher-order thinking
Thinking hotspots
Where next?

Part Three: Interaction

Chapter 4: Defining Moments
Career limiting moments
Successful moments
The nature of defining moments
When to be most vigilant
Being ready for defining moments
Progressively harder to spot
The paradox of progression
Fatal incompetencies: reasons you might not get promoted
Interaction hotspots
Where next?

Chapter 5: Influential Relating
Five ways of relating
The competitive (forcing) postures
The avoiding (reluctant) postures
The accommodating (befriending) postures
The collaborative (joint problem-solving) postures
The compromising (give and take) postures
Extracting some principles
Developing your influential reading
Where next?

Part Four: The Formula at Work

Chapter 6: Hotspots, Cool Careers
How does career progression really work?
Knowing a hotspot when you're in one
The use and abuse of higher-order thinking
Cool careers
Where next?

Chapter 7: Great Examples
Does the formula work?
The Boy Racer
Extraordinary a Popular Politician
The Spy Mistress
The Adventuring Entrepreneur
Where next?

Beyond the Edge of this Book
The escape clause, maybe

Selected Further Reading
Part One: The Nature of the Track
Part Two: Mental Agility
Part Three: Interaction
Part Four: The Formula at Work

Alan Robertson Supporting transition into higher-level roles


Additional information

GOR003987761
9780273675501
0273675508
The Fast Track Formula: how to accelerate your career by Alan Robertson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2004-07-22
176
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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