Slice the Salami: Tips for Life and Leadership, One Slice at a Time
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ISBN:
0-7414-6002-5
©2010
Price:
$16.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 292 pages
Category/Subject:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership
Want to manage your time better, get work-life balance, succeed at your job or get a better one? Slice the Salami gets you there with quick and clear bite-sized chapters.
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Abstract:
This book will help you in your life and your work, and even help you separate the two. Learn practical tips to save you time, enhance the joys in your life, and maybe even get you one or more promotions at work from practical tips that you can digest as easily as your favorite sandwich. Artie Lynnworth is passionate about his career, hobbies and interests, and brings this intensity and perspective to you in this guide for life and leadership. He wants you to succeed, and he shows you how!
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Customer Reviews
Lynnworth's Interview Techniques Brought Success!
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07/29/2010
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Reviewer:
David Spencer
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I had the fortune of a two-hour phone conversation with Artie Lynnworth, a man who has trained interviewers, the night before a medical school interview. We discussed an interviewer's point of view and goals, the components of an interview, how to present your qualities efficiently and effectively when answering questions, and even how to apply these techniques elsewhere, such as résumés. I prepared using the tasks he gave me. The next day, using Artie’s methods, I rocked both the interview AND the group sessions, even though I'm normally shy! I received an acceptance (no waiting list!) at the most competitive time in the admissions cycle, the very end, fighting for the last few seats. In fact, Artie's techniques gave me so much confidence that I declined, applied again, and now attend the right medical school for ME.
Reading “Slice the Salami,” I found everything Artie taught me, explained well in greater detail. He says “the best predictor of future performance is past behavior” – and I know from experience how well this book will serve me when I compete for residencies. If you buy this book just for interviews, you will do great. If you learn the life skills it contains, you will gain fantastic examples of your performance to offer at each new interview in your future career.
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Great book - I ordered several to give as gifts!
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08/25/2010
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Reviewer:
John Guy LaPlante
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Gosh! How I would have appreciated having this fine book when I was applying for my first full-time job years ago. I knew so little! I was so unprepared! Or when I jumped up to a better job. Then when I moved to another in a different field. Certainly when I started my own business. And when I finally sold it in preparation for retirement.
And in my personal life as well. In structuring my time more effectively. Re-ordering my priorities. Establishing the best balance between work and family.
The book would have been useful often. In building my career, it would have given me essential training and made me more savvy and pumped up my confidence. I am sure I would have written stronger résumés, prepped better for the key interviews, handled myself more adroitly during discussions, certainly have negotiated better, and definitely would have been smarter about getting myself top dollar in salary and the best possible package of benefits. Unfortunately I never came across such a powerful and wonderful how-to book.
I mean it—I feel the book is useful at whatever rung of the career ladder you’re on, just starting out or high up in full-throttle career. It is written clearly. Its organization is logical and its common sense is impressive. Its tips are practical and obviously based on the author’s rich experience—not just pipe dream stuff. His anecdotes drive key points home and his graphics help you to understand. His down-to-earth style keeps you reading. He covers so many possible eventualities. That is so important.
What the book is all about is preparing you to best advantage, giving you the preparation to be at ease and make a good impression face to face, and not jumping at just any offer but holding out and impressing your interviewer with your self-assurance and firmness. All good stuff.
You will quickly see why the author rose so high in his own career, from rookie young engineer to senior vice-president in a famous international corporation. He’s not hesitant in telling you that he learned much of what he knows from mentors along the way, in his corporation and outside it, and from his many readings of experts, and, what is so important and impressive, from his own varied and challenging experiences through the decades. Do make it a point to read about him on the back cover of his book! You will be impressed.
What I like is that his whole book is based on his conviction that integrity and hard work and determination are the rocks on which a good career must be based. So many people take shortcuts and do bad things in their fight to claw ahead. That is short-sighted and ruinous. Do not do that. Take the honorable road all the way and apply the tested and realistic suggestions and tips that he lays out for you. Your success is guaranteed, in my opinion.
Your whole idea should be to effectuate a win-win situation every time for yourself and your employer. As a result, a real plus is that what you will do is make many friends as you go along, not a string of enemies (some people make many of these along the way). What is life without friends? And when someday you finally say goodbye and retire, you will look back on a career of accomplishment with satisfaction and pride.
What drove this important point home to me is the long list of personal acknowledgments he makes at the end of his book—people he worked with at every step up, in his assignments in the U.S. and other countries. I re-read that long list of names and all I could think was, “How impressive!” I am one of those people that he thanks, by the way. The truth is it has been a pleasure for me to know Artie Lynnworth and be associated with him. Yes, I have lent him a small hand. But the truth is that I have learned so much from him! And still am!
One thing I should mention is that I have bought extra copies of his book. Why? Because it’s so good! I intend to give them to young people I am watching who are on the way up and that I like. What nicer thing can I do for them? And what better way could I have of showing how highly I think of the author and this book of his. He has created for us a genuine keeper. It will help you immediately. And you will refer to it time and again. John Guy LaPlante Author of “Around the World at 75. Alone, Dammit!” and “Around Asia in 80 Days. Oops, 83!” and the forthcoming “My 27 Months in the Peace Corps. I tell you all!” See www.amazon.com or www.buybooksontheweb.com now for the first two and later for the third.
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