Product Description

If I am accomplishing my objectives...why am I not succeeding in my career?

Most people believe that if they just do an outstanding job they will impress their superiors and through osmosis they will enjoy a strong secure relationship. This kind of thinking becomes the root of the most devastating career letdowns.

Good work does not always equal a successful career. The reason? Some people have more power, influence, and accountability in the organization. The resulting hierarchical relationships can be more difficult to master than any other single component in one's career. Yet they are the key to creating professional success and happiness.

Don't Sabotage Your Success! focuses on how you can build professional intimacy, reveals why we don't build trust in our business affiliations, and suggests ways to begin securing critical relationships.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #717489 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 187 pages

From the Publisher
Enlightened Concepts Publishing is dedicated to the betterment of mankind. This book supports that commitment by helping people to change their lives by improving their professional relationships. There are no tricks or games. The basis for creating strong positive relationships is good old fashioned trust and loyalty. Karen Wood has a solid track record in helping people understand what that means, and she is living proof that with excellent relationships a successful and satisfying career is possible.

From the Author
Many of us are confused, frustrated, and not where we want to be in our careers. The question is,

what do I need to do in order to achieve success and happiness?

The answer is: now more than ever you must master the dynamics of workplace relationships.

Relationships are the foundation for everything you want to create in your career. Relationships of

power and influence are what can turn an idea into reality. Without support an idea is impotent. By

mastering these relationships, you are in control of your career.

The difficulty in mastering workplace relationships comes in first "unlearning" what we learned in

school and in our personal relationships. There are dynamics that can actually destroy trust in

relationships, thereby sabotaging your ability to be successful. The way to become successful at

building strong trusting relationships is to first understand the dynamics in destroying those

relationships. This is what makes Don't Sabotage Your Success! truly unique. The following are

some other key concepts you will learn:

*Proof your current workplace relationships are suffering

*What common behaviors that you observe and display in your personal and family life that have devastating impacts on your professional relationships

*How loyalty is created, destroyed and leveraged to develop the most significant success stories in history

*Why building professional intimacy or schmoozing is so difficult and real solutions on how to make this easy

*The essential building blocks of hierarchical dynamics among superiors, peers, and subordinates

*Plus much much more!!!!

From the Inside Flap
Comments from students of Karen Wood's breakthrough program claim that this knowledge has

changed their lives.

"The most important thing I learned from this program was the rules of work! No one, no school, no

family member taught me the rules for succeeding in business today. This might have knocked down

my preconceived notions about how to succeed, but this program gave me a game plan for turning

my career around."

"This program was a '10' on a scale of '1-6' in helpfulness. I've learned more from this one program

than the dozen-plus I've taken before, all put together."

"This program provided me with suggestions I can start using Monday morning."

"This is such a break through way of thinking and approaching success. I'd happily spend more time

and money on this program."

Customer Reviews

This is the #1 book to read about the workplace!
Before reading Ms. Woods book I was drifting from job to job not understanding how come I did not get along with my bosses and wondered why? Then I read this book and I learned how I contributed to the relationship being the way it was -LOUSY! This book actually changed my life and I will proove it to you. Post 9/11, my boss began cutting staff and she was giving me a mixed message as to what I would be doing on a daily basis. She said she wanted me to do more in sales but then she would insist on doing her administrative work. Before reading this book I would have done the work I prefer to do. But Ms. Woods book got me in line to to learn how to connect with my boss and why it was important. So when everyone around me was getting fired-(with no health benefits,!) I lasted the longest, and since this book taught me how to deal with the work environment, my boss laid me off! which isnt so great, but I was the only employee to receive unemployment! which really made the difference while I looked for another job. Had I conducted myself the way I thought, I would have surely been fired. This book changed all that and as I interview for positions this book made me realize the power to deal with authority is all within! How many books teach you that? Today the book is here, tomorrow Ms. Wood will be on Oprah no doubt. This book is that important. It changed my life.

This is but a piece of the puzzle.
Karen provides everyone who reads this book a great service by writing it. But, I can just imagine, now that she has taught a class based on this book for a couple years, she would write an even better book now. My fifth star for the rating is waiting for that.

Face it. Just about every facet of daily life is driven by Economics, Political Science, and Office Politics. If there is something I left out, I bet it can be related to one of those three things. Remember, All Politics are Local. Local to employers, local to co-workers, local to friends, acquaintances and family. One may already be the best Visionary, Task Organizing, Selling, Paper Pushing, Telephone Talking, Wrench Turning, Rivet Puncher there is. These days, it is not your Hard skill that gives you your job security, or assures your path to a successful future. Whoever called knowledge like this the "soft skills" was all wrong, and no, none of this is taught in school.

Imagine how competitive the workplace or corporate ladder would be if everyone was knowledgeably aware about the inner-workings of office politics? Luckily, most play blind. This information is telling of why those who rise are separated from those who don't, when all other things to consider are basically equal.

Read this and get a leg up, but don't stop here.

4 years in a university did not teach me this!
For so many years I was under the illusion that working hard and using all that the university had taught me would result in promotions and well deserved increases. Well, I found that this was not true but did not know what to do about it. After reading this book the light bulb went off for me. I sat back and examined my peers that has passed me in business and realized that many of them were naturally doing much of what was in this book. I started working as hard on relationships as I had been on my projects and things started to turn around for me. This type of information needs to be available to all college seniors. Thanks Ms. Woods for theis information!