The Con Job: Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with Confidence

by Suzanne Doyle-Morris

Written expressly to help readers get ahead in their careers, “The Con Getting Ahead for Competence in a World Obsessed with Confidence” is a mix of anecdotes, advice, research and interviews with senior global business leaders. This exposes one of the greatest real-life, workplace-based cons - the over-rewarding of confidence, which overlooks competence and rewards the wrong people. Are you ready to debunk the greatest ‘Con Job’ in order to get ahead?The Con Job explodes the Confidence vs Competence debate, and tackles one of the biggest workplace cons of all time.Having interviewed nearly 40 senior leaders, Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris has compiled the best of their advice and how we should be defining confidence so that it works for more of us - not just the status quo of current leaders. If you’re a non-status quo member of your workplace and have been overlooked, The Con Job is for you!Not progressing at work is often blamed on ‘lack of confidence’, but this excuse is a total con job. It misses genuine competence, conveniently rewards the status quo and distracts us from understanding the context of what really drives confidence. This hoax means we fail to get the right people into the best jobs.This book identifies the battles worth fighting to give you the skills you need on what you are doing well to silence the ‘imposter’.Convince others to value your hard-earned experience.Redefine confidence so it doesn’t continue to advantage the ‘status quo’.

296 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2020