Product Description

No matter what business youre in, at the end of the day its all about people. Workers are people, and so are managers. Every day millions of people wake up, get dressed, and go to work. The fact that all of them do different jobs and have different levels of authority has been used for ages to divide us. The truth of the matter, however, is that were all just trying to make a living and provide for the ones we loveand thats a powerful common bond.

If you can grasp that one concept, youll have the power to change your world for the better in ways that you never dreamed possible. When you reach people at this fundamental levelletting them know that you care about whats important to them and showing whats in it for them personally when they join forces with younothing is beyond your grasp.

Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success presents the "Ten Pillars of the Empire" for just this purpose. You dont have to become a great charismatic leader to make them work. Each pillar speaks to you as an individual employee and shows you how to improve both your career and the companys bottom line in a practical and organized manner. These principles and tactics are designed for the real world, where things inevitably do not always go right. The pillars are at once practical, sensible, and applicable in the hectic realities of the workplace because they focus on people, which youll come to see as the most unstoppable force in a companys dynamic. The workfoce doesnt have to settle for less any longer. Working together, we have the power to build a better tomorrow. Unite, and be invincible!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1948056 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-21
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.14" h x 6.40" w x 9.08" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

Book Info
Presents the 'Ten Pillars of the Empire.' Each principle shows you how to improve your career and the company's bottom line in a practical and organized manner. Suggests that workers and managers are just trying to make a living and provide for the ones they love. When you reach people at this fundamental level nothing it beyond your grasp.

About the Author
Founder of Practical Strategy Consulting, Christopher Duncan is the best selling author of Unite the Tribes and The Career Programmer. He's been a frequent guest on radio shows across the country, his monthly columns have been read by hundreds of thousands worldwide, and he is widely acclaimed for his immensely practical approach to success in the real world&emdash;where self interest and office politics are often more prevalent than common sense.

This keen insight does not come by accident. Christopher has an unusually diverse background which includes a career in sales consulting, life as a professional musician, and experience fighting deadlines as a cubicle-dwelling software developer. He's also performed mind-numbing factory work, labored on construction sites, and built components for guided missiles. Currently, he writes, speaks and mentors professionals on career and business strategies. He understands the problems and goals of your people, from the lowest paid workers to the executive elite, because he's been there himself and lived to tell the tale.

Whether he's talking about the job-related anxieties of the night watchman's attack Chihuahua or explaining the relationship between bunny slippers and corporate productivity, his humor and light-hearted antics will entertain your audience as he shares his vision of success through the pursuit of American excellence.

Lively, expressive, and a consummate professional with three decades of stage experience, Christopher delivers an exciting and practical message to your people, inspiring them to reach for their very best and showing them how to get there in the real world, where things don't always go according to plan. Most importantly, he makes sure that everyone has a little fun in the process.

He can be reached at www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com.