The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to rise effortlessly to the top, while others are stuck in the same job year after year? Have you ever felt you are falling short of your career potential? Have you wondered if some of the things you door don't doat work might be hamstringing your ambitions? InThe 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back, James Waldroop and Timothy Butler identify the twelve habits thatwhether you are a retail clerk or a law firm partner, work in technology or in a factoryare almost guaranteed to hold you back. The fact is, most people learn their greatest lessons not from their successes but from their mistakes.The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Backoffers the flip side to Stephen Covey's approach inThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, zeroing in on the most common behavior that can impede a career. Based on over twenty years of research as business psychologists, the authors claim that the reasons people fail in their jobs are the same everywhere. Only after these detrimental behaviors have been identified can the patterns that limit career advancement be broken. Using real-life accounts of clients they have worked with at Harvard and as executive coaches at such companies as GTE, Sony, GE, and McKinsey & Co., Waldroop and Butler offer invaluableand in some cases, job-savingstep-by-step advice on how readers can change their behavior to get back on track. For anyone seeking to achieve his or her career ambitions, The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Backis a powerful tool for unleashing true potential.

James Waldroop, Ph.D., and Timothy Butler, Ph.D., are directors of MBA career development at the Harvard Business School and developers of the Internet-based career self-assessment and management program CareerLeader, currently used by more than 100 corporations and MBA programs worldwide. They are the founders of Peregrine Partners, a consulting firm in Brookline, Massachusetts, specializing in executive development and employee retention. They are the authors of <i>Discovering Your Career in Business</i> as well as articles that have appeard in the <i>Harvard Business Review</i> and <i>Fortune. </i>They can be contacted via their Website, www.careerdiscovery.com.