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    How to Kill Your Company: 50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career
    How to Kill Your Company: 50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career
    How to Kill Your Company: 50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career
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    How to Kill Your Company: 50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career

    By Ken Kirsh

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    How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way Ive ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail.

    Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule

    Ken Kirshs book, How to Kill Your Company, is an intellectual shot in the brain. If you buy it, read it, study it, and put it into action, it will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot and in the wallet.

    Jeffrey Gitomer, author of Little Red Book of Selling

    Never have I seen so many good, actionable thoughts in so few pages.

    Peter Ricchiuti, Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

    For small businesses or big, Kirsh delivers 50 punchy and powerful dont dos that apply to CEOs, clerks and every employee in between.

    Chris Altizer, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Pfizer

    Unapologetic and in your face, How to Kill Your Company exposes 50 of the most common and detrimental behaviors that people, including you, unwittingly exhibit on a daily basisand theyre killing your company.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 13, 2012
    ISBN9781475905274
    How to Kill Your Company: 50 Ways You're Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career
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    Ken Kirsh

    Ken Kirsh grew up in Philadelphia. Cut him and he bleeds music and cheesesteaks. After a number of years working for the man, he specialized in communications as a consultant and award-winning corporate event producer. This outside perspective allowed him to observe something impossible to see from the inside: that people behave alike in ways that repeatedly hurt themselves and their companies, and that these behaviors apply to all industries and roles, up one side of the corporate ladder and down the other. His new book, How To Kill Your Company, reveals 50 ways you could be damaging your organization and your career, then gives you immediate means to make productive change. "I'm so fascinated by how rampant these counter-productive behaviors are, that I'm compelled to stick our collective faces in it. Someone has to tell you the truth and it may as well be me."

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      How to Kill Your Company - Ken Kirsh

      How to

      KILL YOUR COMPANY

      50 Ways You’re Bleeding Your

      Organization and Damaging Your Career

      Ken Kirsh

      www.KillYourCompany.com

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      How To Kill Your Company

      50 Ways You’re Bleeding Your Organization and Damaging Your Career

      Copyright © 2012 by Ken Kirsh

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-0526-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-0527-4 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-0528-1 (dj)

      iUniverse rev. date: 8/17/2012

      WARNING

      No formulas, paradigms, charts, matrices, acronyms, or secrets

      were used in the making of this book.

      To David

      Learn from your mistakes and you’ll get there easier.

      Learn from others’ mistakes and you’ll get there faster.

      "Everyone thinks of changing the world,

      but no one thinks of changing himself."

                                             —Leo Tolstoy

      Contents

      WHAT’S AT STAKE?

      How to Kill Your Company

      I. With Your Personality

      Chapter 1 Set A Bad Example

      Chapter 2 Be Too Controlling

      Chapter 3 Put Your Ego In The Way

      Chapter 4 Hog All The Credit

      Chapter 5 Be Afraid Of Commitment

      Chapter 6 Allow Your Attention Span To Shrink

      Chapter 7 Be A Hypocrite

      Chapter 8 Lack Confidence

      Chapter 9 Act Or Feel Entitled

      Chapter 10 Don’t Be Yourself

      Chapter 11 Collect A Paycheck

      Chapter 12 Be Ignorant And Apathetic

      Chapter 13 Be Too Complacent

      Chapter 14 Resist Change And Opportunity

      Chapter 15 Be Surprised By The Expected

      Chapter 16 Look For Secrets And Shortcuts

      Chapter 17 Spread Negative Waves

      II. With Your Relationships

      Chapter 18 Lack Trust, Respect, And Empathy

      Chapter 19 Don’t Compromise

      Chapter 20 Build And Protect Silos

      Chapter 21 Be Too Political

      Chapter 22 Cut Yourself Off

      Chapter 23 Trust Your Advisor

      Chapter 24 Gossip Too Much

      Chapter 25 Bleed Suppliers

      Chapter 26 Matter More Than The Team

      Chapter 27 Don’t Know Your Audience

      Chapter 28 Don’t Belong There

      Chapter 29 Win Battles Instead Of Wars

      Chapter 30 Pass the Buck

      III. With Your Habits

      Chapter 31 Suck At Delegating

      Chapter 32 Underthink Things

      Chapter 33 Overthink Things

      Chapter 34 Be On Too Many Conference Calls

      Chapter 35 Attend Too Many Meetings

      Chapter 36 Give Up Too Soon Or Too Late

      Chapter 37 Cut Corners

      Chapter 38 Misunderstand The Basics

      Chapter 39 Be Accountable Without Control

      Chapter 40 Email Too Much

      Chapter 41 Put Your Reputation At Risk

      Chapter 42 Adhere To The 80/20 Rule

      Chapter 43 Lack A Moral Compass

      Chapter 44 Put Things Off

      Chapter 45 Trust Your Instincts

      Chapter 46 Be Slow To Recover

      Chapter 47 Rush To Judgment

      Chapter 48 Yin When You Should Yang

      Chapter 49 Don’t Follow Up

      Chapter 50 Confuse Your Priorities

      NOW WHAT?

      WHAT’S AT STAKE?

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      What This Book Will Do for You

      Left unchecked, the stark truths exposed in How to Kill Your Company will undermine your company’s profitability and lead to your great undoing—along with your company’s image and stock price. You will no doubt recognize friends, associates, and high-level executives—some of them public figures—throughout these pages.

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