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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be honest, I didn't think I'd get much out of this book.  A friend gave it to me because I have a problem employee and she thought I might find some ways of dealing with him by &quot;out-psyching&quot; him.  What I found was a wealth of information about the mind-set of the twenty-somethings.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20118121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't hate work.  If I did, I'm not sure this book would have convinced me to like it, but I would have at least learned how to get the most out of it and keep my distaste from being obvious.  The book follows, in chronological order from the 19th century on, a series of self-help books that Husta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45635200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scoff not! This isn't a self-help book. &quot;How to Be Useful&quot; is an engaging, judicious survey of the all-American genre of business books from Dale Carnegie's &quot;How to Win Friends and Influence People&quot; to Donald Trump's ghostwriters. <br/><br/>The real reason this isn't a self-hel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58739397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not done with this book, but I would recommend it, even (or especially if) you hate self-help business books. She takes all those books we creative types avoid reading and condenses them into useable, readable bits that you can really apply to your work life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The tone of this book makes the advice go down so much easier.  I've been very resistant to some career advice in the past, because some of it seems so unnatural, fakey, or just ridiculous.  Hustad basically cuts the legs out from under that argument by giving you a new perspective on what it means ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44065782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually useful. Much more useful than &quot;Shut Up, Quit Whining and Get A Life,&quot; a book my mother once sent me as a gift.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book.  I picked it up both because I have never read any &quot;success literature&quot; and because I supervise workers in the age and experience range she sites as her intended audience for the book.  Some of the advice is quite useful - I loved her chapter about be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25822911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hustad distills the nuggets of wisdom from 100+ years of success literature (Dale Carnegie, Emily Post, Helen Gurley Brown, Stephen Covey, Napoleon Hill, et al.)<br/><br/>What I learned:<br/>*Don't ask a favor of someone you haven't yourself helped in awhile.<br/>*Don't compliment someone then i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66652618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cute and zippy overview of what to do and what not to do in the workplace, distilled from 100 years &quot;success literature&quot; (e.g. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People" title="The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</a>, etc.), the author's personal experience, and stories garnered from friends and family.<br/><br/>As someone who has bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27406956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was different than I expected and helpful in some ways. It would have been nice to read about three years earlier, before I started working in an office as by far the youngest person. I would still recommend it to those in their 20s working in the business setting - or planning to. Beware ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58253200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title is right - this really is a beginner's book. There aren't a whole lot of lessons to be learned, but it is good to reinforce the things we should all remember. It complies the best of success literature going back to the 1800's and ending with the Trump. And focuses on the idea that we only...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23128131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mildly interesting. More of a historical literature review of what the author terms &quot;success literature&quot; than a practical advice. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now, I'm not one to read guide-to-success books, nor do I hate my work. But I saw it at the library and liked it because it's a guide-to-success type book for people who don't care about being successful (&quot;creative types&quot;). It's written by a woman, who was an English major, not some busine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29623348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something soon-to-be college grads should read. The literarture about the Millenial generation is not good, so odds are this book is going to help you out! But then again, if you're on goodreads, maybe not? Either way, there is a good chance there is something useful you will gleen from reading How ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24610276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish someone had given me this book to read right after I graduated. It's a fun, personable stroll through all the success lit that most of us are too embarassed to read. I learned a lot of the lessons listed in here the hard way, but that made the stories all the more funny and poignant.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully honest book about how to be a better worker in the modern office world without losing your cool or looking ridiculous. I wish that I had found it a decade ago.]]></body>
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