How to Rise to the Top...and Stay There!

1. What a Successful Career Entails
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2. The Two Basic Administrative Hierarchies
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3. What It Takes to Achieve a Successful Career
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4. The Importance of Mentors
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5. Different Paths to Career Advancement: Business vs. Academia
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6. The New Era and Its Impact on Careers: Whistle Blowing, Transparency, and the Cyber Age
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7. Doing Well in a Job Interview
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8. Negotiating After the Job Is Offered
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9. How to Choose Between Two or More Job Opportunities
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10. Impact of Gender
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11. Dress, Richness of Vocabulary, Foreign Accent, Usage of Provincialism and Slang, Eloquence
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12. Education: Where? What? How? How Much?
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13. Be Computer Literate, Keep Up with Advances, and Without Bragging Have Your Technical Skills Noted
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14. Physical Appearance, Grooming, and Fitness
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15. Your Office
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16. Behavior with Employees, Equals, Superiors, and Traveling on Business
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17. Choosing Your Friends and Allies at Work
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18. How to Behave at Meetings
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19. How to Make Your New Chief an Ally in Building Your Career
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20. A Hostile Chief that Wants You Out
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21. Accepting Promotions, Demotions, and Transfers
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22. Economic Realities
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23. Associations: Friends, Societies, Social, and Professional
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24. Family, Marriage, and Career
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25. The Two-Career Marriage
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26. Leadership
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27. Interviewing to Get the Job
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28. Negotiating for a Successful Tenure
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29. Starting: The Different Approaches, the Entrance Speech
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30. Relations with Senior Staff You Have Inherited
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31. Running a Business Versus a University, School, or Department
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32. Choosing Your Kitchen Cabinet
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33. Choosing Your Deputies, Your Executive Assistant, and Supporting Staff
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34. How to Use Your Office as a Theater of Operations
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35. How to Run Meetings
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36. Gaining Respect and Loyalty
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37. How to Treat Close Associates
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38. How to Treat Equals
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39. How to Treat Subordinates
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40. Coping with Adversity
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41. Recruiting
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42. Dismissing or Laying Off Associates Smoothly
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43. Dealing with Media
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44. Organizing Your Schedules and Budgeting Your Time
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45. Giving Reports, Addresses, and Lectures
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46. Entertaining Employees, Equals, Prominent Guests Either at Home, in the Office or Institution, or in a Restaurant
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47. Personal Transparency, Total Absence of Conflicts of Interest, Both Personal and for Your Unit
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48. Further Advancement: The Pros and the Cons
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49. Arranging Your Life Away from the Job
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