Eat or Be Eaten

Kill threatening initiatives while seeming to champion them...“Just say no” to your boss and get away with it...Reorganize unwanted subordinates out of their jobs. If you're looking for a book that shows you how to climb the corporate ladder by applying honesty, integrity, loyalty, and hard work, you've got the wrong book! Eat or Be Eaten reveals the dirty tricks, stealth tactics, and savvy strategies that corporate fast-trackers use to claw their way to the top. It arms you with effective weapons to use in the most fiercely competitive corporate jungles—down-and-dirty techniques for stealing credit, shifting blame, dumping potential rivals, fixing failures, currying favor with higher-ups, snaring promotions, and vaulting to the top of your company. From stalling techniques like “Let's Put a Committee Together” to out-and-out ambush strategies like the “Got'cha Game,” you'll learn over one hundred tactics to help you achieve your objectives. Filled with hair-raising real-life stories from the author's three decades in the corporate jungles of McDonnell Douglas, Northern Telecom, and other top U.S. companies, this is a survival kit no corporate warrior can afford to be without.

Contents

Introduction: It's a Jungle in Here vii

1. The First Law of the Jungle 1
   
2. The Art of Jungle Warfare 17
   
3. Stalking Your Prey 33
   
4. Strategies for the Hunt 53
   
5. Getting the Wolves off Your Scent 65
   
6. Be a Scavenger, but Look Like a Hunter 83
   
7. Save Your Hide at Any Cost 99
   
8. Secure a Safe Place on the Food Chain 115
   
9. Keeping the Pack in Line 135
   
10. Getting Your Share of the Feast 153
    
11. Survival of the Fittest 167
    
12. Learn to Spot Traps and Use Them to Your Advantage 181
    
13. Readying the Plan of Attack 225
    
14. Keep Your Eyes on the Target 255
    
15. Drive the Weak into Extinction 269
    

In Conclusion 291
Index 294