The Unspoken Rules
Gorick Ng is a Harvard College career consultant who specializes in mentoring first-generation, low-income students. He has led new employees at Boston Consulting Group, worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse, and is a researcher at Harvard Business School's Managing the Future of Work project. He has appeared in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, New York Post, World Journal, and CBC.
Nobody advises you how to handle your first day in a new position. Nobody advises you how to take charge, manage expectations, or deal with office politics. Nobody tells you how to advance in your career.
The answers to these professional unknowns can be found in the unspoken rules—the specific methods of doing things that supervisors require but do not explain, and that top performers do but are unaware of. The issue is that these norms are not taught in schools. Instead, ideas are passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, creating an unequal playing field in which insiders gain ahead and others stumble through trial and error.
Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career counsellor, demystifies the hidden norms of work in The Unspoken Rules. Ng distills the information he has gleaned from over 500 interviews with professionals from all industries and job types regarding the most common workplace blunders. The book, which is packed with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, provides specific techniques that you can instantly apply to your own circumstance and will help you negotiate unavoidable questions like:
- How do I manage my time when I have competing priorities?
- How do I form relationships while I work from home?
- How do I ask for help without appearing inept or lazy?
The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform at your peak, stand out from your colleagues, and build a rewarding career. It is regarded as one of the best books on career development.
Author: Gorick Ng
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Unspoken-Rules-Secrets-Starting-Career/dp/1647820448
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