Blitz the Ladder

A Team-Based Approach to Getting Ahead in Business

by Todd Rhoad

'Blitz the Ladder' provides an in-depth view at a unique approach to improving your career. This involves developing your own team of supporters who focus on managing the team's perception to managers and the organization. It's a simple active technique that doesn't require one to learn complicated concepts or figure out how to apply the typical academic advice to their situation.

The book is presented from the viewpoint that the reader has hit the preverbal glass ceiling, rendering their career mobility totally stagnant or wandering aimlessly. It is designed to put the "mobile" back into mobility without the need to totally reinvent yourself to overcome your flaws. The book starts out painting a rather stark portrait of the average organization and the resources within it which employees consider to be critical in developing their careers. While most books seek to motivate more than educate, Rhoad explains how in most companies these resources aren't very useful and are quite often misguided. He analyzes the employee, immediate manager, human resources, and informal networks in terms of both their pro's and con's.

In spite of the normal complications in moving up in a company, the book provides a new method, termed the "Blitz," which is designed to easily overcome many of the barriers to upward mobility. This group-based technique is compared to the common individual method of career progression. Rhoad guides the reader in determining the team size, selecting team members, developing career strategy, avoiding Plateauing and maintaining sufficient team and individual motivation.

Praise for this book:

"With this book, you can save yourself months and even years in moving upward and onward in your job and your career."
Brian Tracy, Bestselling Author and International Expert on Entrepreneurship and Selling

"'Blitz the Ladder' describes a compelling, contemporary, common sense approach for anyone interested in progressing in their career regardless of age, profession or industry. Todd Rhoad combines solid research with easy-to-implement tactics into a great book that should be on everyone's shortlist of must reads."
Julie Jansen, author of 'I Don't Know What I Want, But I know it's Not This'

“Brilliant! Todd Rhoad has given us huge insights and 'guru'-level practices as to how to become the very best in today's increasingly competitive workplace. This book is a 'must-have' for all employees, job seekers, and organizations who want to achieve the very best!”
Louis Carter, CEO, Best Practice Institute

“Finally, a realistic approach to meeting the requirements and obtaining the necessary recognition for promotion. This informative 'how-to' utilizes the team approach to synergistically charge the promotional process. A must read.”
Jim Coates, Dean of Business and Technology, South Suburban College

“Todd Rhoad has developed a unique method for advancing your career that is invaluable whether you are just starting out or you are already a senior executive. I plan on handing out copies of Blitz the Ladder to all of my key contacts. You see, I'm sure that when they execute these strategies outlined in the book, they'll remember who got them to that corner office.”
Mark Kuta, Author of Think Like A CEO

“Great balls of fire! This book is dead-on. It gives young professionals the insight and knowledge needed to successfully climb the corporate ladder.”
Brien Biondi, Executive Director, Chief Executives Organization

“To all of you trying to steer the Queen Mary from the boiler room: STOP! Todd Rhoad has applied the best of marketing to the most important company in the world: you and your career. Learning to apply his concepts will not only help individuals, but also companies, because we all know that it's people who get things done for the company. Embed these concepts into your work system and watch your company reap the rewards.”
Dan Kallman, President, Kallman Consulting“

"I wish this book had been written twenty six years ago. I recommend this book to every aspiring young professional and individual who seeks to be successful in the corporate world. The Blitz provides a very practical supplement for you to prepare and position yourself in seizing opportunities to make progress in the corporate ladder.”
Khamsidi Lanee, Senior Engineer, ATDF, Inc.

“Right on target! Destined to revolutionize professional management, Todd Rhoad gives you the keys to skyrocketing up the ladder. With piles of real-world advice on everything from impression monitoring to perception management, the lesson is clear: Start blitzing before your coworkers read this book.”
Jason Sloderbeck, Vice President of Service Delivery, Positive Networks

“Todd Rhoad's Blitz the Ladder is a must-read book for anyone who wants to negotiate career success in a whole new world, workplace, and marketplace of accelerating change, challenge, competition, stressors, AND opportunities. It is a manual that speaks to really tapping into our collective intelligence and potential. Here are three important components of the “Blitz Approach” that make it an invaluable resource:
* Important information for all stages of career, industry sectors, and academia;
* A new and important look at what it takes to develop a self-sustaining team-based approach to career development;
*  Critical Information and a unique approach that is timeless, because it emphasizes the dynamics of building a critically important bond between coworkers that is driven by mutual dependence and maintained by shared success.”
Irene Rivka Becker, Chief Success Officer, Just Coach It

Review by Mike Thomas, The Daily Machete

My Global Career article, The Blitz Approach

Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch

Book review at Lisa Rosendahl's HR Thoughts