
I Didn't See It Coming The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business
by Widmann, Nancy C.; Eisenman, Elaine J.; Kopelan, Amy DornBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Dr. Elaine J. Eisenman is Dean of Executive Education at Babson College. She holds a doctorate in industrial/organizational psychology and has over twenty-five years of experience as a consultant, business executive, and board director for both publicly and privately held companies.
Amy Dorn Kopelan moved upward for twenty years through the executive ranks at ABC Television and managed programming at Good Morning America for nine years. She is President of Bedlam Entertainment, Inc., a conference management company, and founder of coach me Inc., which provides group coaching for mid-level managers in Fortune 500 companies.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
So Who Are We? | |
How This Book Is Different | |
Managing Minefields | |
Can You See It Coming? | |
Exit Strategies and Why You Need One | p. 1 |
An Exit Strategy: What It Is and Isn't | |
Creating Your Exit Strategy | |
Negotiating the End at the Beginning | |
Taking the Reins | p. 21 |
A Smart Start | |
Setting the Course | |
Watch Out for Imprints in the Sand | |
Have You Been Chosen over Your Peers? | |
Looking the Part | |
The House of Mirrors, or How to Keep Your Perspective | p. 47 |
Sizing Up the Team | |
Overstepping Boundaries | |
The Unanticipated Pitfall | |
Out of Sight Should | |
Never Mean Out of Mind | |
One More Look in the Mirror | |
Comrades, Coalitions, and Competitors | p. 67 |
Your Own Band of Brothers or Sisters or Siblings or... | |
When Good Allies Go Bad | |
It's Not Always Fair Play | |
The Trouble with Teams | p. 89 |
Analyze Your Team | |
Manage Your Image | |
Think Like an Owner | |
The Corporate League | |
Strategies for Psyching Out the Team Dynamic | |
Surviving a New Boss | p. 109 |
I Love the Smell of Chaos in the Morning | |
And the Winner Is... | |
When Your Peer Gets the Nod | |
Managing the Rank above You | p. 133 |
The Playbook Perception Traps | |
Hidden Influents, or the Art of Managing Corporate Staff | p. 153 |
Financial Juggernaut | |
Bodies, Benefits, and Boundaries | |
Negotiators and Regulators | |
Rogue Influents | |
Know Who Your Friends Are-and Aren't | |
The I-Didn't-See-It-Coming Moment | p. 177 |
Ten Red Flags and What They Really Mean | |
Wielding Your Power on the Day of Reckoning | |
The Four Laws of Survival | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | p. 193 |
Index | p. 197 |
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