Smash the Pyramid: 100 Career Secrets from America's Fastest Rising Executives

You're about to take a journey into the hearts and minds of some of the fastest-rising and most successful executives in America. In a series of confidential and uncensored conversations, they are about to shut the door, cut through the bull, and reveal 100 combat-tested Secrets they've discovered for prospering in today's turbulent business environment. Right now, the pyramids of American business are being smashed, flattened, and rebuilt by global competition, corporate restructuring, and technology shifts. Succeeding in a business career has never been more difficult or more complex. At the same time, a remarkable group of "superstar" executives is rising through the ranks quickly, breaking the rules, and thriving on chaos across dozens of industries. They work for the Fortune 500, Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies and Business-Week's Best Small Companies, among others. Half of them are women. Twenty-five percent are minorities. All of them broke into the top ranks of their companies before 40. In this book, for the first time, they reveal their 100 most crucial career Secrets, including the Secret of Personal Reengineering - a radical strategy for capturing a new job, the Japanese Management Secret crucial for selling your ideas to a group, why you shouldn't automatically "roll over" if your proposals are shot down, how to use integrity as your secret weapon for playing political hardball, why the toughest bosses and projects can offer you the strongest upside potential, and how to sharply leverage your weaknesses and vulnerabilities into powerful assets . . . and much more.