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Gives ten pointers for enhancing your career advancement. These suggestions explore traditional areas of promotability but with new, current answers to what to do to get promoted in the 1990s! Topics covered include performance, presence, priorities, problem solving, persuasion, empowerment, participation, presentation, passion and people.

Steven Covey had tremendous success with his seven habits for success in business in particular and life in general. This article takes a lighthearted, irreverent look at analyzing the habits of the people who do not have such great prosperity. Chronically less than successful people suffer from seven diseases (or habits) including: playing the victim, failure to see the bigger picture, a lack of priorities, destructive competition, blind spots, a lack of creativity and resistance to change. The article really explores how some people stop themselves from becoming all that they could be.

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A light‐hearted “dictionary” of management styles is presented which encapsulates a modern, new, expanded, tell‐it‐like‐it‐is summary of management philosophies for the 1980s.