How to Grow a Backbone: Library Edition

Product Description To succeed in business today 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. From AudioFile Backbone--it's that elusive quality that drives business success; it's the guts to speak up and to do things out of the box. Marshall's program is subtitled "10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at Work." She laments ineffective meetings and lack of support from colleagues, and recommends taking notes and asking questions. Despite a valiant effort to add variation to her tone, Anna Fields, reading the script at an even, slow pace, fails to enliven a dull, drawn-out subject, although she improves some by the second half. A much shorter audio and a more animated narrator would greatly improve this book. A.G.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine