Your career can't just be the means to an end. It's too important and you spend too much of your life at it. Let it become a means to endless possibilities, passion, and discovery. In Kingmaker, a highly successful former media executive shows you how.
Through Joanne Cini's experience and guidance, you'll make a plan … not just for success, but for bringing passion and personal fulfillment back into your working life, and keeping it there, no matter where your career takes you.
You'll learn positive, value-nourishing ways to move up the corporate ladder, specific techniques for overcoming dysfunctional organizations and "negative energy," which battles are worth a fight, and when it's "game over." Above all, you'll learn specific techniques for keeping your freedom, holding on to your values, and staying focused on your most important whole life goals-business and personal.
- Moving up without selling out. Positive, dignified strategies for fast-tracking your career
- What really matters: keeping your eyes on the prize. Staying focused on the goals that really matter to you in your career
- Choose your next boss. Finding talented, enlightened, generous leaders … and what to do until you do
- "A New Plan B": protecting your security … and your choices. Creating a "freedom plan" that protects and empowers you and realizing that giving your all doesn't mean giving everything
Plan your career for passion, prosperity, fulfillment, and freedom
- Become your industry's WOW hire
- Navigate toward the top without compromising your values
- Excel, execute … and enjoy (almost) every minute
- Build your own personal value kingdom
- Learn the four keys to success: excellence, truth, anticipation, and planning
Thrive. On your terms and within the house rules. Give them what they want, and still be you.
Kingmaker is a call to action. Find the flexibility and courage to stake out the most rewarding career possible … even in the face of tough times, bad bosses, and maddening company politics. It's about working within the rules-and gaining the freedom to change them. It's about a working life in which generosity trumps greed, stretch is a given, willingness is necessary, and idealism can be wrapped in reality for great results.
Kingmaker is devoted to the honor of a great working life. It's a blueprint for transforming your career, no matter where you are: piercing questions to ask, specific actions to take, realistic changes to make … starting today.
