How To Be Useful overturns everything you thought you knew about moving up in the world. Drawing on real-life experiences of 20 and 30 somethings, as well as extracting the very best advice from a century of 'success literature' (the self-development books we're too embarrassed to read), Hustad shows us where we often go wrong in our pursuit of career success.
Then she tells us how we can do better.
The result is suprising and provocative, and the advice is invaluable to young people entering the workplace for the first time, many of them in a state of 'work life unreadiness'. Humurous yet wise, ironic yet marvelously practical, this is a guide to personal effectiveness for those normally too cool, cynical ro shy to read books on self-improvement.