Everyone from CEOs to interns should take note of Robert E. Kelley's new book, How to Be a Star at Work: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed. Kelley's nine strategies may provide the simple key to unlocking the mystery of workplace success.

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How to Be a Star at Work: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed ,
by Robert Kelley
Published by Times Books
1998

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Everyone wants to get ahead. Everyone wants to succeed. However, it's long been believed that the people who rise to the top have some sort of personality trait or genetic advantage that allows them to reach the upper echelons. Kelley debunks these and many other workplace myths. He argues that anyone can succeed using nine strategies: initiative, networking, self-management, perspective, "followership", leadership, teamwork, organizational savvy, and show-and-tell.

And Kelley isn't making this stuff up. As an adjunct professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University, he's done the research to support his theory.

At first glance, Kelley's book seems to be nothing more than a trendy "how-to" book. It's not. Rather, it's the culmination of 10 years of exhaustive research into the common traits of top producers -- who Kelley calls stars.

Kelley's observations are sometimes revelations, like his point that stars are made, not born. Other observations are simply commonsense.

Unlike self-help books of the past few years, Kelley hasn't invented a vocabulary of important buzzwords for the corporate boardroom. Words like "paradigm" or "dichotomy" aren't used to explain his theories. Instead, Kelley takes real-life situations and uses them as examples. It's a book filled with well-researched, helpful information. Kelley's strength is that his ideas are easy to understand and easy to put into practise.His commonsense approach to success is sure to give this book appeal to workers of all ages. His strategies can be applied by everyone -- the entry-level intern or the self-made CEO.

How to Be a Star at Work provides a straightforward means for cutting through the myths, half-truths and rumors. The answers are, in many cases, much simpler than anyone suspected.

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