How to Rise to the Top...and Stay There!

Be in Charge: A Leadership Manual How to Reach the Top and Stay There 2nd edition Foreword- author to be selected Introduction- why is this book needed Part I. On the Way Up * What a Successful Career Entails * The Two Basic Administrative Hierarchies * What it Takes To Achieve a Successful Career * The Importance of Mentors * Different Paths to Career Advancement: Business vs. Academia * The New Era and its Impact on Careers: Whistle Blowing and Transparence in the Cyber Age * Interviewing Well * Negotiating a Job Offer * Choosing Between Two (or more) Opportunities * Impact of Gender, Dress, Foreign Accent, Usage of Provincialism, and Slang * Eloquence in speech: Richness of Vocabulary * What Can Be Incorporated in a Plan How to Succeed * Education: Where, What, How, and How Much * Be Computer Literate, Keep Up With Advances and Without Bragging Have Your Technical Skills Noted * Physical Appearance, Grooming, and Fitness * Your Office * Behavior With Employees, Equals, Superiors, Traveling on Business * Choosing Your Friends And Allies At Work * How To Behave At Meetings * How To Make Your New Chief An Ally In Building Your Career * The New Chief Wants You Out * Accepting Promotions, Demotions, and Transfers * Economic Realities * Associations, Friends, Societies, Social and Professional [social and professional what?] * Family, Marriage, and Career * The Two-Career Marriage Part II. Arriving at and Staying on Top * Leadership * Interviewing To Get The Job * Negotiating For A Successful Tenure:- Funds And Freedom To Assign Spending Priorities, Space, nNumber Of FTEs, Freedom To Design Plans For The Future, Access To The Very Top Of The University Or Company * The Different Approaches To Starting [starting what?], The Entrance Speech * Maintaining Relationships With Senior Staff Who Were There Before You And Choices For Recruitment * Running A Business Versus A University School Or Department: Differences And Similarities * Choosing Your Kitchen Cabinet [this needs clarifying] * Choosing Your Executive Assistant And The Rest Of Supporting Staff * How to Use Your Office As A Theatre Of Operations [this needs to be clarified; it's very abstract] * Treatment Of Staff: technicians, Secretaries, Senior Associates, or Faculty Members * Choosing You Deputy-Deputies * Running Meetings * Gaining Respect And Loyalty * Having Relations With Your Peers * Having Relations With Your Superiors * How To Treat Subordinates * How To Cope With Adversity * Recruiting * Smoothly letting go associates * Dealing With Media * Organizing Your Schedules and Time * Giving Addresses And Lectures * Entertaining Employees, Equals, Prominent Guests Either At Home, In The Office Or Institution, Or In A Restaurant- * Traveling * Personal and Your Unit Transparence, Total Absence Of Conflicts Of Interest Personal As Well As Of Your Unit [unclear] * Pros and Cons of Further Advancement * Arranging Your Life Away From The Job * Carpe Diem