How to Grow a Backbone, Susan Marshall
How to Grow a Backbone, Susan Marshall
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How to Grow a Backbone
10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work

Author: Susan Marshall

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005

Synopsis

To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Marshall highlights skills every businessperson can learn and sharpen to become stronger, more confident, and more influential on the job.

About Susan Marshall

Business consultant Susan Marshall has held positions in advertising, marketing, employee development, and general management. Her many corporate clients include General Motors, Sears, Kmart, Texas Instruments, Harley-Davidson, Fleetwood Enterprises, Apple Computer, and Marriot.

About Anna Fields

Anna Fields (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 09, 2010

Listened to the audiobook. Of the 8 total hours, maybe 30 minutes was worthwhile.......more

Goodreads review by Alberto on February 22, 2017

The book started by feeling a little long and slow. After all, how many times can one use the word backbone in conversation? So I had to take a break from this book.When I made it back, it begun to sink in. I realized that this book deals with too important of a subject. Because the only way to get......more

Goodreads review by Nyasha on July 15, 2016

Fantastic book about growing some 'balls' not only in business but in personal life. Susan does a good job with explaining the ways in which we can stand up for ourselves or others and become our more confident version. It got me thinking...how many times have i felt unheard through my relationships......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 27, 2015

Interesting concept that boils down to the basics – speak the truth, do what has to be done, don’t be a glory hound. I liked the examples throughout, but overall it’s just a reminder to do the right thing, with a little reminding of what the right thing actually is. Not bad, but not so groundbreakin......more

Goodreads review by Nicko on March 31, 2008

I can only honestly comment on the first 3/4 of the book, b/c I stopped reading it. Droned on pointlessly. No aim or direction ith common sense tips speckled in. It did make the one valid point of makinbg sure there is a point to meetings, b/c employees hate being pulled away even if its from playin......more

Quotes

“Susan Marshall’s How To Grow A Backbone presents an excellent, clear reading by Anna Fields as it tells of ten strategies for gaining power at work.” Reviewer’s Bookwatch

“The unique exercises strengthen this surprisingly refreshing addition to the overly burdened management genre.” Library Journal

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