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Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee's Guide to Making Work More Rewarding

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Initiative + Timing = Promotion
Pro-active thinking!
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Encouraging a good employee to be a great employee
Handbook For Initiative

Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee's Guide to Making Work More Rewarding
Bob Nelson
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786867299

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The author of the million-copy-selling 1001 Ways series shows how to get ahead by fulfilling every employers ultimate expectation. This book contains a clear message: Every boss wants an effective worker to do what most needs to be done without having to be asked. Simple? Perhaps. Easy? Not on your life. But thanks to Bob Nelson, employers and employees everywhere will be empowered by this vital message, and in the process achieve their goals and create a mutually rewarding experience. As brief, to the point, and inspiring as his previous best-selling titles, Nelsons commonsense advice can be applied to any situation, from the mailroom to the boardroom, and is illustrated with a wide array of examples and anecdotes from real life. Helping readers tap into their own intelligence, resourcefulness, and pride, Nelson demonstrates how acts of initiative both big and small can make an enormous difference in the way an employee is viewedand rewardedby his or her boss; he also shows how the effects of those actions benefit the entire organization. Its a perfect first day on the job book; a useful resource for any HR department; and a worthwhile investment for anyone who wants to learn more and go farther in a job, in a career, and in life.

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Bob Nelson maps out a specific and easy-to-follow strategy for fulfilling what he calls "the Ultimate Expectation" at every workplace: that people will use their best judgment to figure out what needs to be done and then do it without having to be told. Brief, to the point, and inspiring, Nelson's advice can be applied to any situation, from the mailroom to the boardroom and is illustrated with anecdotes from everyday life.

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Initiative + Timing = Promotion.......2003-07-18

This is a very easy to read book full of examples of how people were able to make headway on the corporate ladder by showing initiative, waiting until the timing was right, and even disobeying superiors.

Through a string of specific examples from which generalized ideas are formed, this book explains how you can be an empowered employee with a driving force that will not only bring you job satisfaction, but can help you turn even a doldrum job into an opportunity for success.

The ideas, such as "be a person that makes things happen" can apply to any job, you just have to think about how it can apply to you.

Pro-active thinking!.......2003-02-03

Bob Nelson has assembled a quick reading book on popular business concepts and situations facing a regular employee. He offers suggestions on becoming more pro-active than re-active to situations that arise through out many different careers. Nelson also gives examples of true story scenarios in which a person took a chance or challenged an idea and was later promoted for it. He talks about successes and also failures in careers in which people either sat on the sidelines or got in the game. This book most can probably read in a day as it is under 100 pages and reads very fast. It has quick chapters and a lot of useful insight.

Not so thrilled.......2002-05-17

I was a bit disappointed after reading the book because I thought the author was giving 'general advice' rather than 'specific tips'. I would rather recommend 'The Administrative Assistant' (Crisp Publications)

Encouraging a good employee to be a great employee.......2002-01-23

Bob Nelson doesn't pull any punches, and he says what every employer has always wanted to say, but couldn't quite find the right words. I am purchasing a copy of this book for each of my departments. It will be required reading for all employees. It drives me crazy when an employee is asked to do something and the first thing out of his/her mouth is, "but I don't know how." Fine, you don't know how, but you are an intelligent human being whom I hired, and you can learn. I love the person who doesn't have a clue, but takes on the task, thinks things through, asks questions, and gets the job done. Stagnation is boring, and it's not long before it starts to stink. This books gives employees great ideas to keep from being anything but stagnate. If they work for me, they know actions speak louder than words, and the right actions will take them places. Employers, be sure to read the book. As a companion, read "First, Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. With these books, you will have the tools to make your organization soar.

Handbook For Initiative.......2001-10-24

As we recruit new employees, or challenge ourselves, we seek a very special trait -- initiative. How do we discover those, who will think for themselves? How can each of us become more proactive and less reactive? Up until now, initiative was the result of passion, dedication and courage. Now, we have a handbook -- "Don't Just Do What I Tell You! Do What Needs To Be Done."

In the spirit of "The One Minute Manager" and "Who Moved My Cheese" this book is short and simple - an easy afternoon read. It delivers quality perspectives on how to empower individuals and entire workforces. The layout is in logical chapters or sections, like "Do Something Different Now" and "Realize Your Potential". Contained in each chapter are simple concepts on how to demonstrate more initiative with examples of how individuals succeeded by being more proactive. The results are credible and interesting stories in support of a of one objective, otherwise known as the 'Ultimate Expectation', "Always Do What Needs To Be Done Without Waiting To Be Asked." True, some of the concepts are pure commons sense. For the most part this handbook creates new structure around an important value. It demonstrates that we are not born with initiative. We must acquire it through experience and through this excellent handbook. Take the intitiative and read this book.

Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You
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Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You
Bob Nelson
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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