Charming Your Way To the Top : Hollywood's Premier P.R. Executive Shows You How to Get Ahead

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Summary: I liked it. It is interesting.
Review: There has been a curiosity of mine that makes me wonder how I could get advance in some situations when competitors with equally or more qualified could not. It works vice-versa in some other situations. Understanding the reason gives anyone a great advantages in social situations, both personal and professional.

"10 Commandments of Charming Your Way to the Top" portrays the very essence of how you should look at and treat the person or persons you are trying to charm. It is crucial for you to care about the targeted individuals and try to fulfill the need and wish of her or him. The care you have for the person does not necessary have to be real. However, it seems to me that it is easier to just care for people in general not to mention the targeted individuals than pretending to care according to this book.

The care you have for the targeted group should not be temporary because that would give them the impression that you are rude and unstable. This can effect your professional reputation of yours also. In order to avoid this, it is important to be charming (in this case, a person who cares about the public and the person whom he or she is communicating with) all the time so that being charming becomes the nature of yours that is consistent.

"Charming Your Way to the Top" gives the examples of celebrities or fictional characters who harness amazing amount of charms and the ones who fail to do so because of the inconsistency of charms they have in different cases such as Roseanne Barr.

This consistent nature of your charm should be displayed even in the situations that you are not standing right in front of people. Talking on the telephone or sending E-Mail or letter is the example of the situation. The care you have on the person shows up on your choice of the words, tone of your voice, and the content of your message.

Today, we are facing the social situation that people in general are not as nice to each other. They are becoming ruder and ruder to each other each year. This works for your, or our advantages because small but consistent portion of a charm can we harness can help us portray ourselves as significantly charming person who cares about people especially the ones we do business with.

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Summary: Must Read
Review: An important book for those who want to climb to the top and stay there. Michael Levine details the important differences between charm, courtesy and etiquette. He demonstrates how being charming is a useful tool that can truly make a difference in one's professional life.
"Charming Your Way To The Top" has the potential to make the world a much more agreable place to work in.


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Summary: Used
Review: A good way to tell whether this is a good book or not is by looking at how many used copies are for sale by Amazon customers. This book was released on Nov. 1 2004 and as of today (Feb 2 2005) there are 50 (!!!!!!!) used copies already for sale. What does that tell you? It tells you that this is one bad book that is not worth buying.