cover image Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge

Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge

Geoffrey M. Bellman. Prima Lifestyles, $27.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-1-881052-02-9

Addressing middle management in a fiercely competitive, status- and title-oriented business world, consultant Bellman demonstrates how ``support'' professionals of all kinds, while serving their higher-echelon ``internal'' customers, can fulfill their own potential for professional and personal development beyond just ``earning a living.'' In this updated version of The Quest for Staff Leadership , the author--using eye-catching headings and short, easily grasped concepts--contrasts the role of management and that of support personnel, while also providing lists of goals, rules, steps to success, rewards and means of self-evaluation. Bellman also offers support professionals advice on how they can increase their level of responsibility and influence from that of gofer or research assistant to that of strategist, even approaching policy-making. 15,000 first printing; paperback rights to Fireside; BOMC, QPB and Fortune Book Club alternates. (Sept.)