Get Paid More and Promoted Faster: 21 Ways to Get Ahead in Your Career

Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: Brian Tracy seems to have the answer for everything, including how to get that raise and promotion. Actually, his point is that you have the answer to everything, if only you can achieve clarity - knowing exactly what you want and how to get there - while disciplining yourself to work toward your objective. Can it really be that easy? Well one thing's for sure, reading this book will make it a lot easier. This volume offers 21 short chapters of clearly presented, easy to absorb (if not always strictly grammatical) material. We from getAbstract recommend it to anyone in any field who aspires to be promoted. After all, would you turn down more money? We didn't think so.

Rating:
Summary: It's pretty good
Review: Don't buy this book. Instead, buy a cup of coffee at the bookstore and take 20 minutes out to read it at the bookstore.

The other reviewers who bad mouthed this book are right. It is all common sense. But most self help is common sense. However, sometimes it helps to be reminded of what we should be doing to get further along in our careers. I believe that if you followed his advice completely, you would get promoted and paid more, but you wouldn't make small talk at work, you wouldn't have social life outside of work, you wouldn't listen to music in your car (only audio-books), and you'd probably be a really boring and serious person.

But if you take half of his advice (like reading for an hour each day about something in your field) you'd come out a better person. All for the price of a cup of coffee.

But it's written well.

Rating:
Summary: 21 Fortune Cookies in 98 pages
Review: No exaggeration: You would fair better by grabbing a handful of fortune cookies at a Chinese food resturant. This book is simply a list of obvious "good to do" habits for work.

The author, in his words, in his self-photos and attitude oozes a plastic, no value-adding presence: "Bleeched teeth and posing" syndrome to cover for no talent or insight.

This book is so valueless I am throwing it away, not even selling it used to some poor soul.