Keeping Your Career on Track: Avoiding Derailment, Enriching the Work Experience and Helping Your Organization

Career derailment, found at all organizational levels in the workplace, is under-documented. Most books examining how careers go off track deal with abstract concepts and focus only on top executives. This book defines 99 potentially career-ending pitfalls, illustrated with real-world examples, and offers specific advice to employees at all levels in business, nonprofit, military, government and other organizations.

Topics include the consequences of power and pleasing, the illusion of imm...