{"product_id":"2940016024660","title":"Find a Career and Keep Your Sanity: An expert guide to modern employment","description":"Looking for a job? Hoping for a career? Finding the many challenges of modern employment stressful, confusing, and daunting? If so, you're not alone. Fortunately, there is no shortage of advice and expert sources to guide you through these common but not unconquerable challenges. Internationally celebrated job coach Michael Harper rounded up some of the best and brightest minds in business, education, and leadership to produce his most celebrated, insightful, and humorous work to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Find a Career and Keep Your Sanity: An expert guide to modern employment\" is resonating with readers around the world in response to its boldly candid and unfailingly practical presentation of random chunks of brilliant advice (from mostly brilliant minds) that you need today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether you're interviewing for a position or trying to figure out how to resign from one, this compelling and invaluable crash course in surviving the pursuit, attainment, and maintaining of a career covers all the critical aspects of employment and career management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEBOOK EXCERPT: Learning to How and When to Say 'No' to The Boss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn, a founding father of MGM, once stated:\u003cbr\u003e “I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no,' I like a man who also says 'no.'”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Goldwyn, there is no scarcity of employers who desire (if not downright depend upon) loyal yes-men and yes-women. Far removed from the bright lights of Hollywood, the landscape of corporate America is similarly littered with chieftains who deplore that dreaded little word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut equally as superfluous as offices with sycophant-loving bosses are the self-help shelves of major retail bookstores, all of which teem with titles promising tips for coexisting with demanding employers who, as Nicholson famously put it, “can’t handle the truth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfortunately, our frustrations with this common workplace condition prevent us from adopting a new perspective, in particular, one proposing that those with the real inability to confront the truth may actually be those who bow to the “yes” just to duck the “no.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCase in point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral years ago, while working with a production company in the early (and most stressful) stages of launching a new reality television series, I looked on with great initial apprehension as a lowly production assistant unwittingly found himself drawn into an argument that raged between his two immediate superiors. Forced to interject his opinion (and thereby offend at least one boss) this fresh-out of college production aide frantically sought for an appropriate answer like a search engine trying to give a researcher the best information available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the words that subsequently emerged from this kid’s mouth would stop everyone in their tracks and leave an impression that lingers with me still.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know what I’m supposed to say,” he began, “but you hired me to do a job and that requires me to do it honestly. From where I stand, you’re both a little off and here’s why…”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a New York minute, the kid I feared would be fired for saying “the wrong thing,” stunned all in his presence by somehow managing to speak truth to power and emerging from an uncomfortable situation smelling like roses. Despite essentially telling both of his bosses they were wrong, he did so by:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Illustrating his integrity.\u003cbr\u003e• Exhibiting his loyalty to the best job first, supervisors second.\u003cbr\u003e• Inspiring co-workers (including myself) to consider other ideas not being debated.\u003cbr\u003e• Exemplifying how to disagree without being disagreeable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll across the corporate landscape today, myriad workers persist in the mistaken logic that there is more to lose from the word “no” than to be gained. In reality, any supervisor worthy of his or her position will recognize the value of an underling who exhibits these positive attributes, especially in situations where saying “yes, you’re right” is substantially easier than saying, “no, you’re wrong.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaturally, there are also times when the “no” we have to give isn’t in regard to a supervisor’s opinion with which we disagree. Instead, it comes when a task is placed (or imposed) on our shoulders by management that rattles our nerves to the core. As a result of this phenomenon, from time to time even the most pristine worker bees in the hive fall from grace in the eyes of management for fumbling their way out of project they wanted nothing to do with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo when (and how) is it ever appropriate to say “no” to the boss?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREAD MORE IN THIS EBOOK","brand":"New Beginnings Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153119658224,"sku":"2940016024660","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016024660_p0.jpg?v=1763628009","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016024660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}