First of all I would like to thank [the author] for given me the opportunity to read [his] book’s Advance Reader Copy. I had a fantastic time reading both the English and the German version.<\/p>
Both versions are very well written and full of, almost casually placed, inspiring stories. And after experiencing [Mr. Calhoun-Senghor] in lecture I couldn\u2019t help but also hear [his] voice in the back to my head while reading every line. That is a treat not many get, but in my humble opinion it only adds to the experience of the book.<\/p>
Regarding the rules I have to say that I absolutely love them. Looking back at how I did my work in the organization I currently work [for] at on a manager level, I can say that [I] found many habits which closely resemble your rules. My favorite rules are \u201cRule 3: Always Be Prepared\u201d and \u201cRule 15: Constantly Improve Your Weaknesses,\u201d which are not only rules to apply when building your career but which are rules to live by. “Rule 22: Learn to Break Bad (News)” is something I always tried to avoid and I always feared. But after reading about it in [the] book I went back to Rule 15 and addressed my weakness. So How To Get A Job And Keep A Job<\/em> already influenced my life for the better after 180 pages. I think that speaks for itself.<\/p> However, there is one rule I cannot completely agree with. \u201cRule 6: Never Criticize a Colleague or Co-Worker\u201d is a rule that, in my mind, hinders, or at least slows, progress. If you work at an organization, your aim should be to benefit said organization and to grow as a team or branch. If only a manager is able to point out errors or flaws, you always have to escalate to a management level above the level where the problem occurred, which in my mind is very inefficient and time-consuming and creates a work culture where it seems like workers want to screw over each other with management. Yet, and [the author is] right there, you have to be careful in how you address something like that to not appear as a wiseacre or \u201cBesserwisser\u201d in German.<\/p> Regardless, I have put [the autho’s] \u201cHow to get a job\u201d-part to the test already and applied, using the knowledge of [the] book, to a new job in a government organization. I think the positive feedback I have gotten so far speaks for itself as well. So thanks\u2026for that.<\/p> The illustrations were always a delight when reading and even made me smile sometimes.<\/p> All in all, a very inspiring, helpful, and well written book, which you can read more than once and still be inspired to progress in your career.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First of all I would like to thank [the author] for given me the opportunity to read [his] book’s Advance Reader Copy. I had a fantastic time reading both the English and the German version. Both versions are very well written and full of, almost casually placed, inspiring stories. And after experiencing [Mr. Calhoun-Senghor] in… Read More »Review by Jan Hager<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-student-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnandcourtneypublishing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}