Rising Up the Corporate Ladder

Despite enjoying more than 26 years in human resources, personnel veteran Mike Guyton recently took time to evaluate and make some changes to improve opportunities for career advancement.

“After years of my career being on the upswing, it started to plateau,” admits Guyton, director of human resources with Bethesda, Maryland-based Coventry Health Care Inc.

It was during this period in early 2007 that he picked up Marshall Goldsmith’s career handbook, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Hyperion; $24.95), a management guide that distills much of Goldsmith’s behavioral studies and pinpoints the top 20 bad habits that tend to impede accomplished professionals. Goldsmith, an executive coach, identifies sabotaging interpersonal actions.

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