WORKING WITHOUT A NET HOW TO SURVIVE & THRIVE IN TODAY'S HIGH RISK BUSINESS WORL: How to Survive and Thrive in Today's High Risk Business World

Growth strategies that help you establish your independence from external forces and foster strength from within

Steps for processing -- not denying -- the inevitable anger and disappointment that follow organizational change

Powerful exercises that sharpen decision-making, relationship-building, risk-taking, and other critical abilities

Working Without a Net empowers you to face the new challenges of the future with flexibility, confidence and self-sufficiency.

An excellent guide for anyone that wants to succeed and climb the ladder of success.


Great book!   August 1, 2001
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

A real eye opener to what is wrong with corporate life today. Both an education and motivation to start you on a path to improving both your professional and personal life through managing change. Will recommend this book to everyone I know.


"Net-less" World More Managable With Shechtman's Help   October 9, 1999
Ted DeCorte (gvwrite@sprynet.com) (Las Vegas, Nevada)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Job security, care taking, blind loyalty, independence, and autocracy are OUT. Adaptability, responsibility, reciprocal loyalty, interdependence, and conflict are IN. Simply put, Morris Shechtman gives us "a clue" on how to successfully "play" today's radically changed corporate game. Just the title, "Working Without a Net", gave me the jitters. As each chapter, from "An Alternative to Working and Living In a Fantasy World" to "Doing the Right Thing," unfolds, entrenched ideas of "how things work" in the workplace are shattered, first by a values clarification test, (oh, yes, most of us have some very interesting value conflicts when it comes to the old career), and then a series of growth and success strategies, powerful exercises, and the revelation that paradigm shifts are necessary to assist in our surviving and thriving in our new "net-less" environment.

The rationale for the paradigm shifts?: an ever-changing global economy that increases competition, decreases profits and margins, and heightens the emphasis on human resources as the key to gaining the competitive edge. Far from advocating a cold-hearted Darwinian approach to business, "Working Without A Net" celebrates the capacity of people within an organization to resolve their differences, pursue corporate goals, and successfully met the challenges of today's high-risk business world. - Ted DeCorte, M.A.


SHECHTMAN IS AN EXPERT ON GROWTH AND CHANGE.   December 11, 1998
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

SHECHTMAN IS A FUTURIST WHO GIVES REAL CLUES ABOUT THRIVING IN AN EVER MORE RISKY ECONOMY AND WORLD. A WELL ARTICULATED VALUE SYSTEM, SUBSTANTIAL SELF-INFORMATION, HIGH ACCOUNTABILITY AND A DESIRE FOR GREATER OPTIONS AND CHOICES ARE THE KEYS TO PERSONAL ,PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL GROWTH AND SUCCESS. SHECHTMAN IS AN INTELLECTUAL AND INTUITIVE POWERHOUSE.


Excellent book for those on the bubble   April 22, 1998
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Great book. I will be buying copies for all of the poeple that work for me. In this "high risk" environment, this is an excellent book to help you chart your course. It is also a good book to disucss with your managmenet team as to how you would like to interact and what you expect of them.