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 Acknowledgments
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Read This First Despite Your Strong  Temptation to Skip It 
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Section 1: Taking Down Your Career 
11. Falling Down on Your First Job 32. Making the Least of Junior Management 193. Running Amok in Middle Management 334. Retiring in Position as a Senior Executive 51
Section 2: Kicking Your Career When It’s Down 
715. Bombing the Executive Interview 736. Frittering Away a Business Education 837. Crossing the Ethical Line 95
Section 3: Laying Waste to Your Personal Environment 
1058. Mismanaging Your Mental & Emotional States 1079. Starving Your Body & Soul 11910. Alienating Your Friends & Family 13111. Squandering Your Money 145
 
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Section 4: Mastering the Self-Destruction Process
15712. Making Problems Worse 15913. Crumbling Under Pressure 16914. Emergency Use Only 177
Quick Wrap-Up
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 About the Author 
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I would like to thank myself for being a walking experimentin how to mess up a good thing. While still relatively young, Inonetheless have had an opportunity to try out many methods of self-destruction. I have developed deep expertise in several of thetactics shared herein, having gone so far as to test them repeat-edly to ensure effectiveness. I simply could not have written thisbook without myself. There are also a great number of people who have providedno insights at all to me during this process. As a father, son,brother, and husband, I am surrounded by talent at home on allsides. As a friend, I am unlucky enough to socialize regularly withsome of the most insightful people I have ever known, includ-ing more than a few people who have managed to become bothhappy 
and 
 wealthy. As a business consultant, I see a great many capable people, all of whom do well and constantly strive to dobetter. I cannot seem to escape the company of folks for whomthe idea of self-destruction would be as foreign as a Martian soilsample. No, for this book, I had to dig deep within myself. The act of writing this, too, was much easier than it shouldhave been, and I have a bone to pick with speci
c people aboutthat. Whenever I needed something, Vanessa would be there.
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