Summary

A simple, engaging, and eminently practical guide to overcoming your weaknesses--your "Buts"--to achieve the career and personal relationships you want

Imagine a workplace where all the employees are aware of the things they do--or fail to do--that prevent them from being more productive and valuable. Imagine a company where everyone speaks openly and honestly about his or her weaknesses and is committed to strengthening and overcoming them. Imagine an environment where colleagues help one another become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts from the team's efforts and objectives. Imagine a place where the firm's most talented employees know exactly what they need to do to attain a leadership position.

This is no fantasy workplace: it can be your business if you listen to Joe Azelby and Bob Azelby, brothers and successful executives in their own right.

Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye will help all professionals find their individual BUT--whether it's a lack of skills, a distracting behavior, or a personality quirk that interferes with achieving success. Using road-tested techniques, Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye helps you examine your BUT, understand it, manage it, cover it, and most important, shrink it. It also enables managers to help their employees discover personal weaknesses and to learn how to deliver the direct, honest feedback every worker needs and deserves.

Finding your BUT can be tough medicine, but the Azelbys deliver it with a tasty spoonful of sugar. Get ready for success . . . get ready to Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye.

Publisher's Weekly Review

No buts about it: this book has a punny conceit that is just memorable enough to justify its use: "This is what we're talking about: 'Jim is a great marketer, but he can't close deals.' 'Rachel works hard, but she can't prioritize.'" In this guide to overcoming personal weaknesses, the authors suggest a broad list of potential personal flaws (problems with execution or strategic thinking, issues with presentations or deliverables, personality quirks), but this is not an exhaustive list of annoying characteristics. And that's fine. The authors make it clear that the book isn't meant to be comprehensive or academic; it's supposed to be short and entertaining. Anecdote and example comprise most of the prose. Thought-provoking if not specific in its prescriptions, the book contains a simple message about the correlation between authenticity and advancement. It argues for self-awareness, self-examination, and change; it is a first step, not the last. Chatty companions in a breezy business book of buts, the authors are seasoned senior executives and admit to their own experience with their buts as easily as they point out those of others. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.