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