Book description
This title offers useful tips to help you climb the corporate ladder.
In today's competitive job market, you need to find an edge. What if you
had one of the top CEOs in the publishing industry as your mentor? What
if that mentor gave you inside information and tips to help you plan
your route to the top? And what if that mentor was available at the
click of a button? In an effective but light-hearted talk, Richard
Charkin (Executive Director of Bloomsbury PLC, publisher of the
phenomenally successful Harry Potter novels) gives the lowdown on how to
climb the career ladder: the best way to start, what pitfalls to avoid
as you advance, and how to stay on top once you've got there. As a
bonus, people at the top of their professions - such as best-selling
author Lord Jeffrey Archer and Chief Executive of the British Library
Lynne Brindley - provide questions they've always wanted the answers to.
Topics covered include: the lessons you should learn before you even
begin your climb up the ladder; developing a strategy; making allies and
dealing with enemies; the importance of networking; dealing with office
politics; how to get yourself noticed; how to know when it's time to
move on; and, the things you have to know to be a good CEO. RICHARD
CHARKIN is Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. He is
responsible for Bloomsbury's publishing activities in UK, USA and
Germany (through Berlin Verlag). He is also a non-executive director of
the Institute of Physics Publishing. He is a member of the Strategy
Advisory Board of the British Library; a member of the Institute of
English Studies Advisory Board; a member of the UKaaC--(t)s Literary
Heritage Group; a Trustee and former Chairman of Common Purpose UK;
Council member and former President of the Publishers Association; and
Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London. He was Chair of
the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Chair of the Society of
Bookmen, Chairman of xrefer. com and a director of the Centre for
Creative Business at the London Business School; and non-executive
director of Melbourne University Publishing. He has held senior
positions at Macmillan (CEO worldwide), part of Verlagsgruppe Georg von
Holtzbrinck (Director); Current Science Group (CEO); Reed Elsevier (CEO
Reed International Books); and Oxford University Press (Managing
Director Academic and General Divisions). He has an MA in Natural
Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge; was a Supernumerary Fellow of
Green College, Oxford; and attended the Advanced Management Program at
the Harvard Business School. Richard Pettinger has taught at University
College London since 1989, where he is a senior lecturer in management.
He is the course director for the undergraduate Information Management
for Business programme, which is especially concerned with ensuring that
the next generation of CEOs, leaders, top and senior managers are
entrepreneurial, expert and competitive. He has worked in many different
parts of the world including Poland, Canada, South Africa and Viet Nam.
Richard is the HR consultant to the Cabrini Children's Society, working
on all aspects of organisation development and staff management
practice. He is the author of over thirty books, including three books
for the for 'Dummies' series, and four books for Continuum, the
leadership and management series published by Wiley Capstone.
