Take Yourself to the Top

Take Yourself to the Top

by Laura Berman Fortgang
Take Yourself to the Top

Take Yourself to the Top

by Laura Berman Fortgang

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Overview

If you're looking for job search advice, this book is not for you. If you want to know about writing a résumé, creating a cover letter, honing interview skills, or dressing for success, you're in the wrong place. But if you're willing to take charge of your career like never before, if you're prepared to be responsible for the choices you make and have the guts to ask for what you really want, then get ready to take yourself to the top.

In this updated and expanded edition of Laura Berman Fortgang's exemplary business/self-help book, readers will learn:

- how to leap out of that mid-career rut
- how to completely and honestly assess your career's progress
- how to identify obstacles that keep you from reaching your goals
- how to turn your back on what many people might call "success" to discover your true life calling


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101153468
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/18/2005
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 477 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Laura Berman Fortgang is a nationally renowned speaker and life coach, helping individuals, small businesses, and corporations forge new directions and weather change. Recently ordained as an Interfaith Minister, she lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Introductionxvii
Chapter 1Where You Were, Where You Are Now, and Overcoming the Hurdles to Where You Want to Go1
Chapter 2Midcareer and Feeling Stuck. Will You Ever Get Ahead?8
Chapter 3On an Endless Treadmill. Burnout or Advancement-Which Will Come First?19
Chapter 4Having It All, but Really Wanting Something Else42
Chapter 5Caught in Survival Mode-How to Get Out and Become the Rainmaker55
Chapter 6New at Entrepreneurship-Going from Hobby to Critical Mass69
Chapter 7On the Sales Roller Coaster-Smoothing Out the Ride89
Chapter 8Overqualified and Underutilized-Whose Fault Is It?107
Chapter 9The Hero Syndrome-A Manager's Downfall, a Coach's Dream125
Chapter 10Having an Identity Crisis-It's Happening to the Best of Us140
Chapter 11Banking on a Miracle-How to Chase Your Dreams, yet Deal with What's Real154
Chapter 12The Elusive Gift-Self-Discipline175
Chapter 13Relationships-A Defining Factor in Taking Yourself to the Top188
Chapter 14Advanced Tools for Getting to the Top205
Chapter 15Put On Your Seatbelts-Here Comes the Future220
Appendix AHow to Choose a Coach225
Appendix BCoaching Resources and Referral Sources228

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Peraise for Living Your Best Life....

"Laura Berman Fortgang will help you reachthe success and fulfillment you are destined for."
—Ken Blanchard

"A brilliantly written, indispensable guide that touches and expands the very best of our hearts, minds, and spirits."
—Harold Bloomfield, M.D., author of Making Peace with Your Past and How to Survive the Loss of a Love

"Beware-this thought-provoking book will put you on a one-way path to a more creative and fulfilling life."
—Kyle MacLachlan

"Fortgang generously offers glorious, refreshing guidance to help us each find our unique path in life."
—Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman's Comfort Book

"Fortgang's Wisdom Access Questions have the makings of brilliance-simple, easy to use, hugely effective, and humblingly obvious."
—Judy George, founder and CEO, Domain

"Laura helps you organize information... so you can move your life forward in positive ways. I can't recommend this enough!"
—Julia Sweeney

Praise for WHAT NOW?...

"This is it—a turbocharged, high-energy, stripped-to-the-core distillation of key insights and practices to truly move you forward. After readiong Laura's loving and potent guidance, you can't help creating the life you yearn for."
—Jennifer Louden, author of Comfort Secrets for Busy Women

"If this book delivers just ten percent of the power of Laura's coaching, it will be worth thousands of times the price."
—Mark Bryan, co-author of THE ARTIST'S WAY AT WORK

"We all need to plug into an energy source for our lives and once you plug into Laura Berman Fortgang and Now What? you will be electrified and raring to go. Listen to what she has to say and you will move your life to new heights."
—Iyanla Vanzant

"Thinking of makinga  big change in how you make a living—or how you live your life? Having trouble getting started? This wise, honest and practical book can help you figure out what may be holding you back, and where to go from here. I'm recommending it to everyone I know. Great stuff!"
—Anne Fisher, FORTUNE

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