Every year, over 2 million people lose their jobs and their confidence in business leaders. CEOs, COOs, and CFOs are being indicted and sent to jail. Veteran employees are laid off without notice and many times without extended benefits/severance. Star managers are passed over for a promotion because the new guy at the top is bringing in his old buddies from previous companies. Star employees are given merit raises that are below the rate of inflation. When they do get promoted, and have to do double the work, their pay increase is 5% or less because HR tells them "We have to maintain internal pay equity". Newly minted college graduates are struggling to find jobs during these record unemployment levels because they don't now how to network.
No one ever prepared you (or me) for all of this. Instead, you had to figure it out the hard way, learning what millions of other people had to learn only via experience in business. Think of the mistakes that have been made over and over and over. Think of the loss of income, savings, health, marriages and more because no one ever gave us a blueprint for managing our careers.
So, to change all of that, I started ManagingYourCareer.com and wrote "The Death of" book series. This book series gives you the proven advice that can only come with real world experience at every level in a corporation. And it is not just my experience, but the experiences and stories of 1,000+ people from 20 countries around the world!
This "Death of" series is a manifesto for change; a change in the way employees think about their jobs; a change for the way managers lead their front line employees; and a change for the way senior managers at the top of corporation lead, organize, and operate their businesses.
In Death of an Employee, employees will learn how to become the "Architect of their Lives and Careers." They will take back ownership of their lives and implement a proven system for achieving their professional and personal goals.
In Death of a Manager, managers will learn how to drive corporate initiatives without driving their good people (and peers) away. Managers will learn how to balance politics and personality issues with their peers, while at the same time, becoming a leader worth following.
In Death of a Leader, senior executives will learn how to lead a corporation or business unit and develop the right culture to protect and sustain the business. Senior executives will learn how to root out hypocrisy in their organizations and thereby earn more credibility in the firm, improve cross-functional execution, and improve department specific performance.
