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Summary: Practical. Solid Examples. Useful.
Review: Kelley offers a very practical guide to success in workplace with many excellent examples of the model behavior. Quite impressive for an academic! I especially enjoyed how he contrasts "show horse" and "work horse" behaviors. This book is easily worth the cost of admission.
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Summary: Great book for those who want to know how to network
Review: Most people think of networking as a one-sided process whereby you take what you can get from others and move on once you get what you want. However, Kelley's research reveals that the process of networking must include a reciprocal exchange. His insights into how to network effectively can make the difference between great success and dismal failure. The nuances needed to successfully network are included. In a day and age when networks and networking are essential to success, Kelley's book offers great support.
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Summary: A sound approach for self advancement.
Review: Presents the Star Performance Model consisting of nine work strategies: initiative; networking; self-management; teamwork; leadership; a comprehensive perspective of issues; being an effective follower despite differences with a leader; organizational savvy (managing interpersonal relationships); and effective communication. At the core of Kelley's approach are cognitive abilities and technical competence. Based on research, this is a very practical work, well worth reading.
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Summary: very good
Review: Robert E. Kelly, spent ten years researching the personal and professional characteristics of star performers. If you want to do more than just succeed at work, this is the book for you! It's full of vitally information on how to reach beyond your skills at work. About ten to fifteen percent of all people will out perform their peers by a wide margin and rise above to the star ranks. How to be a Star at Work tells us how to be our own star and to be able to outshine everyone else, no matter who you are. This book has nine strategies to getting ahead, but don't think you can muddle through with a few pointers; you need to read the entire book to be able to realize how everything works and fits together. It's worth the time and effort! Remember stars are made not born. I found this to be a helpful, informative, simplistic read. It's very well written and the fact that the author spent so much time 'in the trenches' is apparent, he knows what he is talking about. I recommend it.
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Summary: Real strategies for real people in real jobs: they work!
Review: Robert Kelley has done it again.Star Performers is one more example of cutting edge stuff that Kelley has written about in his Gold Collar Worker and Followership books. Here he gives the reader nine strategies with great depth of detail and stories about how they really work. These ideas are based on research and actual observable data. These are thinking persons strategies that can be used the next day. His section on effective networking will turn the previous advice you may have received on its ear. This section alone is worth the price of the book. Two other distinguishing factors. The book is very readable. You will enjoy your time with it. Second, Kelley's genuine interest in you and your desire to suceed, make more money, increase satisfaction, etc. comes across with every paragraph. As a manager, I have recomended this book to everyone on my staff. It is the answer to questions from your good, but not yet star performers, about how I can improve, get promoted, do things different. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I have.
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Summary: real insight into what it takes in today's job market to shi
Review: Robert Kelley has just the right touch to succeed in today's extremely competitive market. His strategies don't require you to be a rocket scientist, they simply work. This is definitely one to put on the gift list for new employees, personnel committees, not for profit execs, and the new hires of any company. The words are crafted with straightforward logic and common sense. It's a great read and I read it with pleasure. For yourself, for your friends and colleagues--great book
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Summary: The work of a pragmatist
Review: Robert Kelley's book encompasses a lot of wisdom about how to succeed in any professional job. The book achieves it without being simplistic, and without offering silver-bullet solutions to change the world in a day. Rather, the solutions are based on pragmatic considerations and are realistically achievable. A highly recommended book.
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Summary: Buy this ONLY if you don't already know most of the basics
Review: Some good points, not too many surprises; most of this has been written before by the "impress the suits" mob. Lots of annecdotal stories (as usual to most "how to" books) setting the stage for why the 9 points (sold to AT&T for big bucks I'll bet) are so important to follow. If you're already self-motivated and just suffer the top level management getting in your way, then DON'T buy this. If not, maybe so anyway if you're looking for some new ideas. If not, don't expect this to suddenly get you a big raise/promotion unless you ALREADY know the basics of what makes an office environment tick!
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Summary: Have some good points!
Review: The book could be little less wordy. I would also like to know the math behind the following statement made in the book ? If everyone of IBM's 400000 employees come with an idea that saved the company only $1,000, that would be a savings of 4 million. It would take $2.4 billion in revenue to match that amount. 400000 * 1000 is 400 million. Also nobody would consider 4 million in cost savings and 2.4 billion in increase revenue as equivalent. It is one of those book that would let you believe in the idealistic business world. In real world lot of it depends on the politics, back stabbing, or pure luck. I do not believe that someone going up the rank to become CEO or President without getting some lucky break and playing unfair. Stories are told of situations when people have achieved extraordinary results once but then never again in their life they did anything remotely as spectacular. May be a lucky break. Also, I am little bit cynical of CEO or other famous people's tale of their inspirations. They are very apt in telling stories to their audience (just listen to any CEO's pep-talk to employees). Even if the stories are true (in many cases they may not), they are sometimes embellished, parts of it ommitted because they do not go with the cause. However, the book has some points in what you can do to be more productive in your work and that will increase the likelyhood (but not ensure it)of your becoming a star.
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Summary: revolutionary !!
Review: The book very clearly elucidates the factors that are necessary for one to increase productivity and co-worker interaction.
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