Promoting Yourself: 52 Lessons for Getting to the Top . . . and Stayin

Longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Hal Lancaster is tired of feel-good career guides written by football coaches and soap opera actors who boil the complex workplace down to buzzwords and platitudes. Refreshing and controversial, Promoting Yourself asserts that readers can best build their careers not by listening to so-called gurus, but by studying others like them who have flourished.

Through stories of real-life professionals, Promoting Yourself reveals a workplace that requires you t...