Impostor's Handbook

Ross McCammon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2015
Elliott & Thompson Limited (Verlag)
9781783961450 (ISBN)

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A hilarious and utterly truthful guide that shows you how to fake it (so you can make it)

All the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on.; Ross McCammon learned the hard way. When he was invited to come to New York to write at Esquire magazine at the age of thirty, Texas-born Ross was sure he was doomed to fail. He was thrown in the deep end in one of the most stylish and competitive cities in the world. But he soon realised that everyone felt like he did, and that no one feels like an insider. In short - everyone's faking it.; Now, in The Impostor's Handbook, he offers a funny and frank guide to pretending you are as charming, relaxed, interesting and witty as you want to be. With chapters on interviews, handshakes, entering a room, how to email like Robert De Niro, how to 'do' lunch, drinks, chitchat, when to shut up, and how to employ a profanity, The Impostor's Handbook throws the conventional self-help wisdom out of the window and gives you all the ammunition you need to fake your own bona fide success story.; Don't go to work without it.

Ross McCammon has been a senior editor at Esquire magazine since 2005, where he's responsible for the magazine's coverage of pop culture, drinking, cars, and etiquette. He has edited Esquire's "Dubious Achievement Awards" and the long-running annual feature "The Best Bars in America," writes the monthly feature "The Rules," and is a frequent contributor to the magazine's back-page humor section "This Way Out." For three years he has been the business etiquette columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. His humour has been collected in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, edited by Dave Eggers. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and son.

Contents; Introduction xi; 1 First, a Little Story 1; 2 Should You Keep Reading This Book? 7; 3 How to Be Interviewed 11; 4 Classic Interview Rules, plus One More 16; 5 How to Talk to a Recruiter 18; 6 How to Enter a Room 21; 7 How to Have a First Day on the Job 25; 8 Ways in Which You Must Screw Up Early On: A Handy Checklist 34; 9 What to Say When Someone Asks for Your Take on the Oeuvre of Werner Herzog at Dinner with Your Brand-New Colleagues and You Don't Know Who Werner Herzog Is 37; 10 The Importance of Sucking at a New Job for a Year or Two 41; 11 How to Smile 45; 12 How to Shut Up 48; 13 Things You Should Never Say in a Professional Setting 51; 14 How to Have a Meaningful Lunch in a Fancy Restaurant Full of Important People 54; 15 A Few More Rules for the Business Lunch 60; 16 How to Make Small Talk 62; 17 A List of Small-Talk Topics for People Who Hate Small Talk 65; 18 How to Have a Short but Meaningful Conversation in an Elevator 67; 19 How to Pitch Something 70; 20A Few Words on Passion 74; 21 How to Shake a Hand (Feat. Kanye West) 76; 22How to Be Late 80; 23How to Be on Time, for Chrissakes 83; 24How to Find a Good Bar to Drink in After Work 86; 25How to Work While Drinking 90; 26How to Begin a Work Thing 95; 27How to End a Work Thing 97; 28Should You Be Dancing at This Work Thing? 99; 29How to Give a Toast 101; 30Things You Should Never Say While Giving a Toast 106; 31 How to Give a Speech When You're Terrified of Giving a Speech 107; 32Things You Should Never Say During a Speech 111; 33How to Give a Speech When You Have Just Taken One Too Many Xanax 113; 34How to Talk to "Important" People 115; 35How to Think About Clothes 129; 36Style Rules for Work That You Hear All the Time, Plus One You Never Do 133; 37Sprezzatura! 135; 38An Impostor's Garden of Mantras 138; 39A Few Words About Collaboration 140; 40A Few Words About Credit 142; 41 How to Email 144; 42A Few More Rules for Emailing 146; 43Why Strident Postures on Social Media Are, at the End of the Day, Probably a Bad Idea-Especially if You're Looking for a Job 148; 44How to Intimidate People 151; 45On Assholery 155; 46Are You an Asshole? 159; 47The Case for Profanity 165; 48How to Work with Someone Who Clearly Resents You and Is Threatened by You and Would Prefer That You Weren't Around 169; 49"Two Beers and a Puppy": A Helpful Test for Determining How You Feel About Someone 173; 50The Score 174; 51 How to Forget About That Thing That Happened That One Time That You Still Wince About 177; 52Why You Should Always Be an Outsider 181; Afterword: How to Write a Book in Which You Do Nothing but Tell Strangers What to Do 185; Acknowledgments 187; Appendix 1: A Reading List: Self-Help Books That Are Not "Self-Help" Books 191; Appendix 2: How to Pronounce the Names of Scotches 194; Appendix 3: Rules I Never Got To 196; Appendix 4: Key Measures and Equivalents 201; Index 203; About the Author 207

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2015
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	198 x 129 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-13	9781783961450 / 9781783961450
Zustand	Neuware