This is a short book with many small chapters on how to get noticed and promoted in business. Most of the book focuses on how to produce results and get noticed. The book does a good job of making you think about the things you do and whether or not they contribute to moving you forward. Here are a few of the chapter titles:

• Always Take the Job That Offers the Most Money
• Avoid Staff Jobs, Seek Line Jobs
• Don't expect the Personnel Department to Plan Your Career
• Get and Keep Customers
• Keep Physically Fit
• Do Something Hard and Lonely
• Never Write a Nasty Meno
• Think for One hour every Day
• Keep and Use a Special "Idea Notebook"
• Don't Have a Drink with the Gang
• Don't Smoke
• Skip All Office Parties
• Friday is "How Ya'Doin'?"Day
• Make Allies of Your Peer' Subordinates
• Know everybody by Their First Name
• Organize "One-Line Good-Job" Tours
• Make One More Call
• Arrive Forty-five Minutes early and Leave Fifteen Minutes Late
• Don't Take Work Home from the Office
• earn your "invitation Credentials"
• Avoid Superiors When You Travel
• eat in Your Hotel Room
• Work, Don't Read paperbacks, on the Airplane
• Keep a "People File"
• Send Handwritten Notes
• Don't Get Buddy-Buddy with Your Superiors
• Don't Hide and elephant