Corporate Intelligence: How to Survive and Rise in the Modern Corporation

by Mark Powell, Jonathan Gifford

How to Survive and Rise in the Modern CorporationTalented, hardworking and intelligent people don’t always get to the very top of their chosen careers, even when they deserve to. What they may lack is something that seems to come naturally to some people but not to Corporate Intelligence.Many successful professionals with good leadership skills fail to maximise their career potential because of a number of instinctive good habits – things that make them highly effective executives, wellliked and respected by their colleagues, but which are not best designed to progress their careers to the next level.Taking its inspiration from Niccolò Machiavelli, the famous chronicler of the sometimes deadly political struggles between the leaders of Renaissance Italy’s rival city states, the book exposes the hidden realities of corporate politics with wit and humour and explores the career strategies that lead successful executives to the very top of the corporate world.Corporate Intelligence explores the littlediscussed though tacitly acknowledged fact that modern corporations are not rational and meritocratic operations in which hard work and talent will inevitably be rewarded, but complex social and political systems which must be skilfully navigated to obtain power and influence.Talent Is Not Enough. You Need Corporate IntelligenceMark Powell is a partner at A.T. Kearney consultancy and Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.Jonathan Gifford is a business author whose writing focuses on the human aspects of business, management and leadership.

158 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2019

Reviews

[Sevanth Subramanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book helps us to see the "corporations" the way they are and the kind of politics that goes on.
The author also has stated a few points as on why even a potential employee wont be able to get on to the top position without the "Corporate Intelligence".
A MUST READ.

[Aaditya Rijal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book to understand the required behaviour of modern corporate world. Then you have the chance to move ahead in the corporate world's feudal type structure up in the ladder with appropriate display of behaviour that modern corporate requires.