How To Be Moderately Successful
Maygood Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0682184-7-7 (ISBN)
Written with warmth, wit and zero corporate jargon. How To Be ModeratelySuccessful is the ultimate career guide for anyone who wants to level up without burning out. Let its practical advice shape your career path to progress with confidence and get promoted.
Want to be a billionaire? A celebrity? Retire by 40? Go to the moon? This isn't that kind of book. How to Be Moderately Successful is a smart, practical career handbook for people who want something more realistic - a good job at a respected company, ongoing professional development and a healthy work-life balance.
Whether you're just starting out, are stuck mid-career, or ready for a change, this career development book gives you the practical tools to shape your career path, move forward with confidence and get promoted.
Based on 25 years of experience at Boston Consulting Group, eBay, Eurostar and Trainline - plus hundreds of honest conversations with professionals - it's written with warmth, wit and zero corporate jargon. It's the ultimate career guide for anyone who wants to level up without burning out!
Choose from over 40 punchy chapters, each one with a relatable story, a clear takeaway and an action you can try today. Chapter highlights include:
What even is success?
Your Personal Brand: Are You IKEA or Apple?
Managing Your Boss
Working With Idiots
Strategy Is Deciding What Not to Do
Getting Promoted: Step Up!
Impressing People at Interviews: My 10 Top Tips
The perfect book to get you to the 'base camp of success' in your early to mid-career. Who knows where you might go from there!
Matthias started his career in strategy consulting followed by 20 years in commercial leadership roles at eBay, Trainline and Eurostar, where he started the direct London-Amsterdam service. He has written this book to pass on his learnings from hundreds of coaching and mentoring conversations over the last 10 years. Matthias is originally from Vienna, Austria but now lives in London with his family, where he also enjoys cooking, orienteering and football refereeing. He has degrees from Cambridge University and Harvard Business School and is fluent in English, French and German.
Part 1: How To Understand Yourself
What even is success?
Your 5 minute personality tests: Are you a Fiery Red ENTJ?
A Brief Interlude: It's all your fault
Your Personal Brand: Are You IKEA or Apple?
No, you're not the only one who can't sleep at night
Part 2: How To Be Good At Your Job (The Basics)
Aiming high : 'Ca, c'est du vrai insight' at BCG Paris
Managing expectations: Your Easyjet flight is delayed
Keeping focus: The exam question
Managing Time: Trying to avoid 'al desko'
A Brief Interlude on being honest
Sending emails: Don't be a Boov
Writing presentations: Avoiding 'death by PowerPoint'...
Being proactive: "Einer geht sich immer noch aus"
Moving on from setbacks: The 5 stages of grief
Finding balance: The Stockdale paradox
Part 3: How To Work With Other People
Understanding people (1): What they do
Working with third parties
Understanding people (2): Who they are
Showing humility: Three men go camping
A Brief Interlude on swearing
Understanding people (3): Where they're from
Managing Your boss
Working With idiots
Making people feel special: Free fries in Greece
Active listening: An endangered skill worth honing
Part 4: How To Be Good At Your Job (Advanced)
Strategy Is deciding what not to do
Setting goals: Aboard the riverboat Steam Queen
Solving problems: The hypothesis-based approach
Making decisions: You don't always need to 'sleep on it'
A Brief Interlude on humour
Negotiating well (1): Why cinemas only sell giant tubs of popcorn
Negotiating well (2): Getting my teenagers out of bed
Setting prices: Restaurant 97 in Surbiton
Managing people: Let it go, let it go!
Reinventing things: Never waste a good crisis
Part 5: How To Get A Better Job
Defining your 'value proposition'
Developing your career: Get a mentor, or two
Getting promoted (1): Know the rules
Getting promoted (2): Step Up!
Impressing People at Interviews: My 10 Top Tips
A Brief Interlude on luck
Fantastic jobs and where to find them
Working with headhunters: It's not you, it's them
A Brief Interlude on job titles
Succeeding in a new role: How hard can it be?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2025 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0682184-7-9 / 1068218479 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0682184-7-7 / 9781068218477 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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