A profession consultant explains why many proficient, hard-working humans frequently fail to spot their complete occupation power, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets and techniques, and unstated principles you must comprehend with a view to play the sport to win.

While many careers were impacted by means of fiscal downturns, failed tasks, downsizing and restructuring, or simply undesirable bosses or undesirable timing, we know of comrades who proceed to upward push via each difficult state of affairs. so much suppose that they have got a bonus that protects them—degrees from the correct faculties, nice mentors, influential family and friends, or simply greater good fortune. yet those hyper-successful execs have confronted setbacks, too. rather than permitting demanding situations to derail their upward thrust, they’ve realized find out how to deal with them better.

In Workplace Poker, Dan Rust supplies the concepts you want to speed up your profession, and forestall setbacks from stalling your growth or spiraling it downward. The trick, he unearths, is to “play the sport less than the game,” to imagine extra deeply and act extra strategically. while you're proficient, formidable, and hardworking, yet think your occupation simply isn’t accelerating as quickly because it should still, or as speedy as you wish it to, this ebook is for you. when you have been annoyed to determine others (less proficient, who don’t paintings as demanding as you do) in attaining swift specialist growth whereas your occupation stalls out, this publication is for you. If you’ve been pissed off by means of those who find themselves winning essentially due to the place they went to college, or relatives connections, or monetary assets, this e-book is for you.

Rust offers the perception and talents you must rework your self and adapt and live on any hurdle—to flip each adversity into virtue, and each fight into power, including:

• attractiveness of your personal “blind spots” and what to do approximately them

• learning strategic and actual self-promotion

• bettering your individual appeal and likeability

• reaching the excessive power, either psychological and actual, essential to force a good profession trajectory

• constructing an curiosity in “corporate anthropology” and the complicated human dimensions of business

• Neutralizing the career-stalling influence of inauspicious or dysfunctional colleagues

• Deeply “owning” and studying from profession missteps and failures

In his clever, humorous, relatable voice, Rust stocks tales of people who've utilized those functions in genuine global events, and offers brief, targeted routines that can assist you take into consideration your self and your individual profession. With Workplace Poker¸ you’ll easy methods to get out of you personal means, and locate the good fortune you deserve.