Drawing on two decades of counselling and business experience, Dr Lois Frankel, a pioneer in the field of business coaching and internationally known author, has identified the most common ways that businessmen and women sabotage their careers. And, in this book she outlines the eight proven strategies to succeed. Many people reach a point in their careers in which they stall, plateau, get sidetracked, or worse - derail. Surprisingly, the very strengths that can make employees, managers and executives successful can also lead to their undoing. With self-tests and dozens of examples from the workplace and her own business, Dr Frankel helps readers identify their dominant professional behaviours and innovative ways to overcome career stagnation and rise to the top - in spite of themselves.