Wanted

How to become the most wanted employee around

David Freemantle

Publisher: Pearson, 2009, 211 pages

ISBN: 978-0-273-72491-9

Keywords: Personal Development

Last modified: July 28, 2021, 11:23 p.m.

Competition is intense, talent is rife and jobs are never secure.

Whether you’re going after your first job, dream job or want to rise to the dizzy heights of success with your current or future employer, learn how you can be the most wanted employee around.

Based on a life-time of experience working in the best companies around, David Freemantle gives you 50 ways to become the person everyone wants in their organisation:

  • Become so good at your job that everyone else is second best compared with your best
  • Discover the secrets that ensure you are hired, promoted and retained for any role
  • Sharpen your talents, experiences and learning to ensure you always have a competitive edge
  1. Fall in love
  2. Believe you can do it
  3. Deliver results
  4. Be 100 per cent trustworthy every day
  5. The importance of importance
  6. Go MAD
  7. Go down the road less travelled
  8. Put your job into 3-D
  9. Resonate
  10. Be yourself
  11. Have strong convictions
  12. Embrace mutuality
  13. Give something away every day
  14. Make ‘yes’ (not ‘no’) your default option
  15. Don’t let people down
  16. Measure up
  17. Be extra-curricular
  18. Be in the know
  19. Learn something interesting every day
  20. Originate research
  21. Become a ‘class act’
  22. Listen to what people listen to
  23. Create everything twice
  24. Talk to strangers
  25. Express opinions
  26. Tell stories
  27. Scribble notes
  28. KISS
  29. Fine-tune your voice
  30. To be good look for the good
  31. Weave networks
  32. Jump ship
  33. Be visible
  34. Be quietly confident
  35. Volunteer
  36. Set yourself boundaries
  37. Never complain
  38. Aim to be word and fact perfect
  39. Make sacrifices
  40. Work for dictators
  41. Don’t chase money
  42. Experiment with irrationality
  43. Do mental callisthenics
  44. Travel the world
  45. Be loyal to yourself
  46. Do something new every day
  47. Work hard
  48. Be curious
  49. Acquire a second string
  50. Create possibilities

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Wanted

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Excrement * (1 out of 10)

Last modified: March 3, 2013, 11:29 a.m.

Common-sense, simplistic, not-helpful; Need I say more?

You can live your life without this trash and be a happier person.

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