Did you ever wish you could tap your boss on the head with a magic wand and suddenly have them become transparent.

I don't mean invisible. I mean transparent, so you cold see through their motives, readily understand their intentions and clearly interpret their meaning.

This book accepts that challenge. But there is a catch. You must be willing to find out what this will require of you.

How to Make Your Boss Your Ally and Advocate is intended to help you in specific, practical ways as you initiate action to improve and grow with your current boss and all who follow.

Section I will help you learn more about yourself, so you can understand what you bring to the relationship.

Section II will enable you to analyze your boss's personality and management style, so you will know what kind of an animal you are dealing with.

Section III lays the groundwork for a positive, mutually beneficial relationship that allows you and your boss to achieve your goals.

Section IV gives you pointers on how to maintain the relationship, and tells you what to do when it isn't working.

Section V will help you identify what species of boss you are working with, and give you

SHARPEN YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE

Here are the tools needed to discover your personal profile as a competitor. You will learn:

1. How to Test Your Assumptions about People

2. How to Rate Yourself as a Competitor

3. How to Set Performance Priorities

4. How to Find and Keep the Right People

5. What Successful Competitors Do and Don't Do.

6. How Achievers can Lose

7. Why Competitive Leaders are Scarce

8. How to Prevent Pressure

9. The Power of Confidence

10. Why Good People Burn Out

11. How to Share the Load

12. How to Unlock Potential

13. Why Problems Aren't Solved

14. Eight Steps to New Ideas

15. The Myths of Measuring Progress