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Give to Get: A Senior Leader's Guide to Navigating Corporate Life
Why do some people succeed in corporate careers, while others crash and burn? What if you had a guidebook for navigating corporate life? An executive career can bring wealth, prestige, and fame. But it also comes with unique challenges. Vishal Agarwal has written an essential handbook for business leaders to successfully negotiate the high-stakes complexities of any corporate culture. Give to Get illuminates rarely discussed challenges for those in business leadership roles, from overcoming "new guy syndrome," to creating a stakeholder map, taking your credit to the bank, finding your why, earning trust and building support, and overcoming burnout. Drawing on decades of experience, Agarwal shares essential strategies to help executives avoid the most common causes of failure at any stage of their career and replace them with skills every corporate superstar needs to master. Filled with allegories, personal stories, and memorable "Vishal-isms," this is a must-read. Whether you're a senior-level decision-maker or on your way to becoming one, Give to Get will help you take charge and navigate to success.
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Published February 22, 2018
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August 22, 2018
Give to get
By Vishal Agarwal
Genre - Business / Leadership
Total pages - 146
Publishing house - Jaico Publishing house
About the author :
Vishal Agarwal has lived the corporate life cycle from start to finish, beginning as an intern and working up to Senior Deals Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Until recently, Vishal was a Global Top 500 Senior Leader for General Electric before becoming Chairman and CEO of his own private investment management firm, Full Circle Africa.
About the book
From the starting of our adulthood, we try our level best to earn something. But when we get into a Corporate life lots of challenges turn up. We search for help. In this book, the author has given us a new ray of hope. With the help of these 8 chapters, the author has created a pathway to achieve success.
My views
1. I really appreciate the writing style of the author. His writing attracts the attention of the author. It seems like our elder himself giving us the advice.
2. The comparing life with practical examples has made the book more interesting.
3. Each chapter step by step takes the reader to the final understanding which is really admirable.
4. Easy read and quick read.
I want to rate it 5/5.
Thanks, Jaico publishing house for giving a copy of this amazing book.
By Vishal Agarwal
Genre - Business / Leadership
Total pages - 146
Publishing house - Jaico Publishing house
About the author :
Vishal Agarwal has lived the corporate life cycle from start to finish, beginning as an intern and working up to Senior Deals Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Until recently, Vishal was a Global Top 500 Senior Leader for General Electric before becoming Chairman and CEO of his own private investment management firm, Full Circle Africa.
About the book
From the starting of our adulthood, we try our level best to earn something. But when we get into a Corporate life lots of challenges turn up. We search for help. In this book, the author has given us a new ray of hope. With the help of these 8 chapters, the author has created a pathway to achieve success.
My views
1. I really appreciate the writing style of the author. His writing attracts the attention of the author. It seems like our elder himself giving us the advice.
2. The comparing life with practical examples has made the book more interesting.
3. Each chapter step by step takes the reader to the final understanding which is really admirable.
4. Easy read and quick read.
I want to rate it 5/5.
Thanks, Jaico publishing house for giving a copy of this amazing book.
August 25, 2018
“What if you had a guidebook for navigating corporate life.”
Corporate life involves challenges and confrontations alongside the considerable opportunities. Nobody will tell you how to grow in this challenging business environment. The people who make it to the C-suite have followed the same course of paths with different perspectives.
And that’s where this book comes into the picture. Give to Get is a book giving out useful insights to overcome business leadership challenges and mentoring to a new comer how to make it to the senior executive roles. This book is a wonderful guide to direct your corporate career. And to learn the insightful thoughts of an experienced executive leader.
This book is a mentor that every corporate enthusiast aspires to have in his life at the right time.
The author elucidates with his real-life stories and parables the conception of Give to Get in the corporate environment. He enlightens about the notion of a culture within a culture, how to map your stakeholders, how to take your credit to the bank, how you could overcome the burnout.
“On a battlefield, you don’t stop wearing your armour just because it’s Friday. Please don’t come to work in anything but a suit.”
I loved how the author has put forth his experiences and thoughts of his executive career. The book is written in a clean language and the pace is swift complimenting the idea of the book.
The book is definitely a must read.
Read this one if you’re a prospective aspirant of the business world. It’s constructive, useful and Informative.
Corporate life involves challenges and confrontations alongside the considerable opportunities. Nobody will tell you how to grow in this challenging business environment. The people who make it to the C-suite have followed the same course of paths with different perspectives.
And that’s where this book comes into the picture. Give to Get is a book giving out useful insights to overcome business leadership challenges and mentoring to a new comer how to make it to the senior executive roles. This book is a wonderful guide to direct your corporate career. And to learn the insightful thoughts of an experienced executive leader.
This book is a mentor that every corporate enthusiast aspires to have in his life at the right time.
The author elucidates with his real-life stories and parables the conception of Give to Get in the corporate environment. He enlightens about the notion of a culture within a culture, how to map your stakeholders, how to take your credit to the bank, how you could overcome the burnout.
“On a battlefield, you don’t stop wearing your armour just because it’s Friday. Please don’t come to work in anything but a suit.”
I loved how the author has put forth his experiences and thoughts of his executive career. The book is written in a clean language and the pace is swift complimenting the idea of the book.
The book is definitely a must read.
Read this one if you’re a prospective aspirant of the business world. It’s constructive, useful and Informative.
December 13, 2023
A quick, fiery read with so many actionable insights! I'll never forget the lion vs goat analogy haha. I learned a lot and am looking forward to applying it. 5 stars!!!
April 21, 2018
We read and review many books on business on our blogs. We also read and review books on genealogy and family history. Without even trying, Give to Get: A Senior Leader's Guide to Navigating Corporate Life by Vishal Agarwal brings the two together, in a roundabout way.
With family history and genealogy, most people want to know about the dashes in a family. You probably know that the dash is how people lived their lives between their birth and death dates, the how and why they lived their lives the way they did.
Give to Get talks about something Zig Ziglar talked about many times over the years: How you can get anything you want in life IF you just help enough other people get what they want.
This book is a quick read, but it takes on several issues that are important to anyone in the C-suite, as well as that new branch manager of the local company.
Without coming out and saying it, Agarwal reminds us that it isn’t the people at the top who run the company. Most of the time, it is the people on the front line who run the company. Tapping into their strengths and getting to know what makes them tick is the key to a successful company.
Give to Get is very well-written and easy to read. We give it all five stars. We think this will make an excellent addition to any leader’s library.
We were sent a complimentary copy of this book. We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.
We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.
With family history and genealogy, most people want to know about the dashes in a family. You probably know that the dash is how people lived their lives between their birth and death dates, the how and why they lived their lives the way they did.
Give to Get talks about something Zig Ziglar talked about many times over the years: How you can get anything you want in life IF you just help enough other people get what they want.
This book is a quick read, but it takes on several issues that are important to anyone in the C-suite, as well as that new branch manager of the local company.
Without coming out and saying it, Agarwal reminds us that it isn’t the people at the top who run the company. Most of the time, it is the people on the front line who run the company. Tapping into their strengths and getting to know what makes them tick is the key to a successful company.
Give to Get is very well-written and easy to read. We give it all five stars. We think this will make an excellent addition to any leader’s library.
We were sent a complimentary copy of this book. We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.
We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.
May 20, 2018
This book is full of practical and insightful ideas on how senior executives can deal with the nuances of their roles. These ideas can also help those people who wanted to move up the corporate ladder and maintain satisfaction in life as well.
The author Vishal Agrawal presents this book from his personal experience, making this book an easy read and enjoyable. It feels like he is coaching the reader along the way.
I live to read this book again in the future.
I receive a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion.
The author Vishal Agrawal presents this book from his personal experience, making this book an easy read and enjoyable. It feels like he is coaching the reader along the way.
I live to read this book again in the future.
I receive a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion.
April 13, 2018
Succinct . Very valuable lessons about how to overcome culture-within-a-culture. Actions speak louder than words, indeed!
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