دانلود کتاب Love Your Imposter: Be Your Best Self, Flaws and All

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Cover
Contents
About the author
Prologue: In my imposter dreams…
Introduction
It wasn’t me…
It’s personal
Coming out as human
Trust me, I’m a business person
The unacceptable face of inequality
The need to be human after all
Changing business for good
Be your best self
It’s always about people
Chemistry lessons about leadership
Business in the new real world
Why a pick ’n’ mix approach to advice?
1 Clueless: On my own imposter backstory
A bit of my backstory…
Giving it all away
Here I am
Real life becomes a nightmare
Know thyself
The ups and downs of schooldays
Discovering an ‘other’ world
Getting the first job: any job…
Getting down to it
2 Groundwork: On early lessons in working life, including a bit of personal branding
Wearing the wrong trousers (OK, skirt)…
Waking up to real executive life
Take two
Vision things
Best-laid plans…
Guilty secrets
First ideas about personal branding
Branding yours truly
The real thing about branding
Getting it all done
3 Hairy moments and happier outcomes: On the strangely positive power of mortification
Bad hair days
It helps for hair to help
When your hair blows you away
And now for the other meaning of hairy…
Letting the side down
It gets worse…
‘Who are you?’ and other social gaffes
A right royal mess-up
4 Magic numbers and difficult statistics: On why no numbers = no boardroom
Money does indeed talk
Keeping it real means knowing the numbers
The bottom line
Exposure to the hard core of business
The importance of the whole brain in business
Business hard and soft
High flying
Revenge of the nerds in the ad industry
Not so common sense
Now for some sex…
And now for the real thing…
5 Money talks: On learning the language called Finance
The basics
The formalities
Money never sleeps
6 Why you don’t have to fake it to make it: On how to be your (best) self… most of the time
Making the most of the real you
The peculiar power of self-development
Are you a hockey player or a triathlon champion?
Stretching the truth
The perils of bending yourself (and snapping)
Tip top…
… Rock bottom
Great escape?
Gritting teeth
Friends like this…
7 Voices off: On how anyone can learn to be a good communicator. Honestly
Talking heads
Say what?
Look Mum, I’m on TV…
And finally…
8 Extending skills and expanding life: On how to add some good strings to your professional life – and an honest take on personal stuff
The thing about things…
Making waves as an insider
Making good use of your thing
It’s a wide world
Sweet nothings in the non-profit sector
On boarding
The joys and pains of writing books
Expanding your life… with children
The difficult things…
The good things…
9 Women rule OK: On how to ‘do leading’ in a way that suits you… and helps others
How to help ourselves
Cheering on the role models
And now for the news
Saying cheese
Bonus quiz! ‘Are you ready for leadership?’
10 Nice guys don’t finish last: On why the business and wider world really needs niceness to work
Being the best
Being good is good
Not nice
Hiring and firing
As seen on screen
I could have danced…
11 You and the future of business: On why the business world really needs… YOU. All of you, flaws and all
Changing the chemical balance
Us against the world
The world is up to you
The truth about cats and dogs
Bigging things up
What do we make of all this?
Your personal brand can save the world
Clarity
Coherence
Leadership
And in the end…
Epilogue: Back to real life…
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index