Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
Hardcover – Bargain Price, January 22, 2009
Description
From Publishers Weekly Despite stellar credentials and more than 20 years of Wall Street experience, Harris, managing director of Goldman Sachs, clumsily delivers hackneyed business guidance. Broken down into chapters detailing Carla's Pearls of career advice, the author reneges on her promise to provide practical, strategic tools or specific, play-by-play answers and strategies for business success, depending instead on such standard business-book fare as Be yourself, Know your goals, Brand yourself and Find a mentor. Harris's strength is in her supportive tone; she speaks forcefully about asking for what you want, developing a winner's lens (the ability to always see yourself as a winner and present yourself as such) and the titular expectation of success, all reasonable advice. But handicapped by halting, repetitive writing and the mobbed state of the business self-help shelves, groaning with similar books offering more substantive strategies than this one, this title will likely sink without a trace. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Carla A. Harris is the managing director of global capital markets at Morgan Stanley. She has been the recipient of many awards honoring business professionals, including Fortune magazinex92s x9350 Most Powerful Black Executives in America,x94 Essence magazinex92s x9350 Women Who Are Shaping the World,x94 and Black Enterprise x92s x9350 Most Powerful Women in Business.x94
Features & Highlights
- One of Wall Streets most powerful and lauded women shares her strategies for long-term success in any career
- While climbing the corporate ladder, Carla Harris sought career advice from her mentors and superiors but found some of the counsel too nonspecific. As Carlas career advanced, she discovered the key survival tools to business success and vowed that when she reached senior management and people came to her for advice she would provide them with specific, play-by-play answers about what they needed to do to fulfill their career potential. Each chapter in
- Expect to Win
- includes Carlas pearls lessons Harris has acquired during her twenty years of working on Wall Street that can help contribute to career success by aiding readers in navigating the day-to-day complexities and challenges of the workplace. Carla Harris is a Wall Street veteran. She executed the IPOs for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Redback, as well as the $3.2 billion common stock transaction for Immunex, one of the largest biotech common stock offerings in U.S. history.
- Expect to Win
- is a must-read for anyone seeking battle-tested tools to triumph over common career challenges and to achieve maximum success in any field.
