It's about ALL THE THINGS YOUR MANAGER WILL NOT TELL YOU! Learn how to survive, thrive, and succeed in the workplace, while avoiding office politics troubles and managers that can't manage anything. You will learn decades of career secrets and build a life and profession of your choosing. By Author Mark Baggesen, former About.com/New York Times writer.

• Do you know where you want to be in your career in 10 years?
• Do you know how to be successful at work?
• Do you know what the results of your business career development plan will look like in 10 years?
• How about in your life? Is success happening consistently?
• Do you know why some jobs require you to be in constant problem solving mode?

If the answer to any of these questions is "No," you need this book.

Note: The audience for this book is people 20 to 50 years old (those at the beginning and middle of their career). Not that there aren't nuggets of wisdom for others. People at the top of this age group may find chapters "Managing Your Manager" and "Long Term Success" very helpful.

The workplace has transformed in the last 20 years because of technology, shifting social and political forces and generational differences. This book will show you how to survive, thrive, and succeed while avoiding office politics troubles and managers that can't manage anything.

Have you had a coach or mentor? Someone who has changed your life, how you think and see the world and your possibilities? What about life business coaching? If you don't have a mentor, you will learn everything day by day, week by week, year by year. This is the hard way to do business career development! What can you do about it?

That's the purpose of "Don't Work Stupid, Coach Yourself". You will learn decades of career secrets to build a life and career of your choosing. Information in this book will provide you with life business coaching that is instantly actionable. For example, here's how to be successful: manage your manager and they won't have to manage you!

• The right questions, to get the right answers.
• Excellent decision-making-Make decisions that get fantastic results.
• How to plan out an extraordinary career-You can make it epic!
• Basic survival skills-the workplace should not be a nightmare!
• Navigating people and work situations-How to avoid office politics trouble!
• Manage Your Manager-this relationship should not need problem solving!
• Positioning yourself for future success-You need to prepare, so you can easily move from one opportunity to the next one.

Are you ready to learn how to be successful in life and business? Are you ready to know the "rest of the story" without having to spend 30 years learning it the hard way? It's easy to succeed, when you know how.

Mark Baggesen has been a manager, writer and mentor to over 100 men and women for the last 25 years. He is an expert at turning chaos into success, recovering failed technology projects and complex problem solving. In this book, he is "paying it forward" to legions of people, so they can have amazing careers.

I would not have the career and opportunities that I have had, and continue to have, in digital analytics if it were not for Mark Baggesen. As my manager at AHA...Since my time at AHA, I have found myself returning again and again to advice and guidance that he provided. I have found that advice to continue to be valuable and useful in a variety of roles throughout my career at other organizations and agencies.

Sherri (former employee managed by Mark)

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