Take your Career to the Next Level
The business world is filled with books telling you to improve your performance; this is not one of them. Starting with the assumption that your job performance is already satisfactory, Joel Garfinkle, a personal business coach, helps you transition from good employee to outstanding business leader.
Find out what industry leaders think of Getting Ahead, Joel Garfinkle's motivational book, in these book reviews:
"Getting Ahead is packed with common sense advice about how to advance your career without sacrificing your integrity. Read this book and let Joel Garfinkle lead you down the right path toward personal success."
Ken Blanchard,
coauthor of business leadership books The One Minute Manager®
and Lead with LUV
"I recommend this book with great enthusiasm. In a world going out of control, it's a Godsend to have a man who teaches us how to get greater control over our own lives. Joel Garfinkle is his name; remember it. He is one of the very best counselors I have ever met."
Dick Bolles,
author of What Color Is Your Parachute?
"In Getting Ahead, Joel Garfinkle offers an original, memorable, and powerful approach to becoming more influential, more visible, and highly regarded. Filled with practical advice, real-life examples, and documented evidence, this book is an essential guide for anyone wishing to take charge of their careers."
Jim Kouzes,
coauthor of the award-winning and bestselling book,
The Leadership Challenge
"So many executives I know are always looking for ways to take their career to the next level. Joel Garfinkle shows them how in Getting Ahead. By focusing on three key aspects – perception, visibility and influence – this book presents a compelling case for what an executive needs to do to become a more credible leader. Each chapter ends with handy summary steps that readers can put into gear for themselves. Getting Ahead is a welcome read for anyone seeking to advance his or her career."
John Baldoni
author of Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up
"The book is chock full quotes, cases, ideas, and tools. Anyone who wants to get ahead will find this book thorough, well written, easy to read, and quickly applied."
Dave Ulrich
coauthor of The Why of Work
Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
"Joel Garfinkle offers smart strategies to stand out from the crowd – extremely important if you want to build an influential network and move forward quickly in your career. He wraps the strategy in riveting stories and offers practical advice. I like this book."
Keith Ferrazzi
author of Who's Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone
"This book provides tremendous insight into who you are and how you can have a bigger impact on those around you. If you're really serious about boosting your career, reading Getting Ahead will be one of the best moves you can make."
Sydney Finkelstein is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College,
and author of the bestseller Why Smart Executives Fail
"Getting Ahead is a book that will help you manage your career. Joel Garfinkle provides practical, actionable ideas you can use to get ahead. The book delivers on its promise."
Mark Sanborn,
author of The Fred Factor and You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader
Good ambition is a great asset. This book helps you put that ambition to work.
Jim Champy,
coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation
"Getting Ahead breaks down success into three profoundly simple principles to systematically and pragmatically elevate your career. Joel Garfinkle gives you the tools to be an exceptional difference maker and value creator in our complex, dynamic world."
Kevin Cashman
bestselling author of the motivational Leadership from the Inside Out
and Awakening the Leader Within
"In this insightful book, Joel Garfinkle provides his brilliant PVI Model to help you gain the competitive advantage needed in today’s marketplace."
Jon Gordon
bestselling author of The Energy Bus and Soup
"Getting Ahead lays out, in very straightforward terms, a simple and practical model leaders can use to seize the reins of their own careers while identifying and supporting the essential development of their employees."
Beverly Kaye,
coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em
"Getting Ahead delivers. Definitely a step-up and step-ahead perspective on how to make a difference and get recognized for doing so. Full of practical ideas and applications for managing a career without the customary politics and b.s.! This book is an enjoyable and fresh read with a lot of interesting examples."
Barry Z. Posner, Ph.D.
Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University
Coauthor of three business leadership books: The Leadership Challenge,
Credibility, The Truth about Leadership
"In today's hyper-competitive business world, just being great at what you do will not (alas) get you to the top. Joel Garfinkle knows what will: perception, visibility, and influence. His insightful guide is a must-read for anyone looking to turbocharge his or her career."
Anne Fisher, columnist, "Ask Annie" career and business articles,
Fortune.com
"Getting Ahead is a must have resource to accelerate and advance as a global leader. The powerful three-step process clearly outlines what a leader must do to maximize his or her potential. It provides practical advice for leadership development-and is a must read."
Phil Harkins, CEO
Linkage, Inc.
"An indispensable, professional advancement handbook for leaders at every level."
Frances Hesselbein, President & CEO of Leader to Leader Institute (Formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation)
Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
To help you get ahead both in business and in your personal life, executive coach Joel Garfinkle lays out the principle of perception, visibility, and influence for you to follow. But it is up to you to do the work. Are you ready to make a dramatic transition in your personal, business, or career life? Executive business coach Joel Garfinkle's book, Getting Ahead is not just a book to be read—it’s a book to be devoured and applied to every area of your life.
