Summary: Executive Warfare E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Business Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 41

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

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The must-read summary of David D'Alessandro and Michele Owens' book: "Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success".

This complete summary of the ideas from David D'Alessandro and Michele Owens' book "Executive Warfare" shows how being smart, hard-working and able to generate results will generally get you promoted when you first begin working for an organization. However, once you get to senior management level, these abilities are no longer enough. To keep moving forward at this level, you need to start building relationships with people of influence. In their book, the authors offer ten rules of engagement that you should be using in order to have a chance of rising to the top and staying there. By reading this summary, you will learn the secret to pushing your career further.

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Book Presentation:Executive Warfare by David D’Alessandro and Michele Owens

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About the Author

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Summary of Executive Warfare (David D’Alessandro and Michele Owens)

1. Drivers of Success

2. Immediate Boss

3. Peers

4. Rivals

5. Your Team

6. Motivations

7. Outsiders

8. Position

9. Culture

10. New Reality

Book Presentation:Executive Warfare by David D’Alessandro and Michele Owens

Book Abstract

MAIN IDEA

When you first start working for a company, if you’re smart, hard-working and able to generate results, you will generally get promoted. Once you start getting to the senior management level that’s no longer enough. All of a sudden, you’ll notice everyone there is smart, hard-working and results oriented. To keep moving forward at this level, you need to start building relationships with people of influence. To have a shot at rising to the top and then staying there, there are ten rules of engagement you need to be using:

Learn how to use these rules to good effect and your career will move forward by leaps and bounds. Ignore these rules and chances are your career will crash and burn. The choice is yours.

About the Author

DAVID D’ALESSANDRO was chairman and CEO of John Hancock Financial Services from 2000 to 2005 as the company made the transition from being a private mutual company into a major public corporation. Over the four-year period from John Hancock’s IPO to its ultimate acquisition in 2004, the company’s stock price rose 157% earning Mr. D’Alessandro widespread recognition. He currently serves as a corporate advisor, guest speaker, guest columnist for the Boston Globe and as a business commentator on Good Morning America and the CBS Evening News. Mr. D’Alessandro, a graduate of Syracuse University, is the coauthor of Brand Warfare and Career Warfare.

MICHELE OWENS is a former speech writer for New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Massachusetts Governor William Weld. She co-authored Brand Warfare and Career Warfare along with Mr. D’Alessandro. She has written a number of articles which have been published in the media.

Important Note About This Ebook

This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

Summary of Executive Warfare (David D’Alessandro and Michele Owens)

1. Drivers of Success

To excel, learn to harness attitude, risk and luck productively

At the executive level, your work is really all about finding the right instrument to play in the best orchestra available. Figure that out first and you position yourself to excel.

When you get into a job that is a good fit for your natural talents and abilities, it’s pretty easy to move ahead. That competence may be enough to propel you to the junior executive level of your organization, but if you aspire to rise any higher, you’ll then need to learn how to broaden your horizons.

In particular, to keep moving ahead, you’ll need to become very familiar with three things:

Attitude – unless you’ve genuinely got your head and your heart in the game, you won’t rise any further. To be perceived as being material for higher management roles: You need to be good at making presentations.You have to be an expert in your specialist field.You need to appreciate how your organization works.You must be prepared for 24/7 scrutiny of all you do.You need to be both discrete and disciplined.

In all, you need to make sure you’re genuinely in a game you want to play, and that you’ve got your greed, arrogance and lack of discipline under control. If you can’t do this, there’s no way in the world you’re going to stand out from the crowd sufficiently to keep moving up.

Risk – you need to understand higher management is all about managing risks intelligently and in a calculated fashion. If you’ve gambled big to get this far, you’ll need to understand your freewheeling days are over. And if you’ve avoided risks, you need to understand you can no longer do that. It’s time to take on some genuine stomach churners.

Senior management roles are all about handling risks intelligently for your organization. This is what you’ll need to do if you aspire to sit in the top chair. By handling your own risks in a calculated fashion, you demonstrate you’re ready to take the helm. Conversely, if you fall apart whenever things go wrong, that also sends a message to the board of directors that you’re not ready for prime time yet.