Make Your Summer Read Worth Your While
Thinking that July and August are the absolute hardest
months to concentrate on work we felt perhaps it might be the ideal time
to remind the community that while your comrades may be idling away the
hours staring out the window daydreaming about the summer fun they will
try and cram in over the weekend, or what fun they are missing out on
while sitting in their cubicles, now is the perfect time to concentrate on
taking your career goals to the next level and get the step up that
could make all the difference for your future.
The
summer reads have traditionally been innocent enough fluff and mind
numbing escapism but what if you were to use some of that down time that
would otherwise be devoted to the latest fiction bestseller or Oprah
Book of the Month to make some real headway in your career? You planned
on hours of relaxing on the beach with a book anyway so why not make it a
book worth your reading? The work load is a little lighter and there is
time enough to get in a few pages of a real 'how to get ahead without
really trying' guide to business without shortchanging your dip in the
pool time. You might even find you can steal away a few minutes on THE
MAN'S clock to make headway and get yourself one step closer to being
THE MAN. True enough you will not be the cool kid at the water cooler at
the end of the long weekend chattering on about the latest Oprah
recommended read or the socially conscious brainiac who reread a classic
and has decided to relate it to the current social inadequacies
plaguing society droning on whether anyone is actually listening or not.
However you might just be the one who as end of the year reviews
approach have the insight to make the grade or earn the next rung up on
the corporate ladder.
The value
of this read can be found in the results of the 5 years of research and
study that prompted the book. Results show a 35% higher level of
employee engagement, job satisfaction, and workplace morale, not to
mention results of a greater employee loyalty quotient and individual
productivity factor that organizations under the leadership of
white-collar gay males have experienced by comparison to their straight
counterparts. It is proof that today's employees are responding to a new
type of organizational leader. It is a good guide to how you may just
find your own G quotient to be an asset after all. Now the simple fact
is that this is not simply a book for how a gay person can optimize
their orientation to get ahead but it is a lesson in how management
styles that are more often gay-typical can be utilized by any
professional regardless of orientation. Its simply a new approach to
getting the job done that seems to be working ... at least 35% more
effectively. So charge up the spare battery for your I-pad and head to
the beach making your summer read
