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Table of Contents


Introduction: Insights to this Book

PART 1: Uncommon Practice

   Chapter 1: Creating Your Own Luck
   Chapter 2: Don’t Be Blowing in the Wind
   Chapter 3: Seeing the Elephant
   Chapter 4: The Stories You Tell
   Chapter 5: It’s Not About You
   Chapter 6: It’s All About You

PART 2: Another Way

   Chapter 7: Bringing Yourself to Work
   Chapter 8: A Practice of Trust
   Chapter 9: Shades of Grey
   Chapter 10: Waking Up

PART 3: Behind Closed Doors

   Chapter 11: From a Boss’s Perspective

Nan S. Russell
About the Author


Even a Stanford degree didn’t protect her from being fired from her first professional job. From minimum wage employee to QVC Vice President, Nan S. Russell learned the hard way what it takes to survive and thrive at work. Now she’s helping others avoid the mistakes she made, sharing her real-world perspectives of what does and doesn’t work at work.
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Create your own luck in this uncertain economy and start winning at working ... your way

"Some people talk about what they want to achieve but remain wishing and hoping. Others, like Nan Russell, quietly do it, achieving their life's dreams one step at a time. Nan will inspire you to realize your dreams, too."
Doug Briggs, former QVC President/CEO


STERLING, VA (January 31, 2008) A recent Gallup Poll showed that 70 percent of those surveyed admit they are unhappy with their careers. Nan Russell aims to change that. She rose from a minimum-wage employee to vice president of $4.4 billion dollar QVC, so she knows what it takes to survive and thrive in this "what have you done lately" world. Her motto: "Opportunity is anywhere and everywhere. While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can create your own luck and turn your dreams into reality."

Nan Russell's new book, Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way, advocates learning how to use your uniqueness at work––the best of who you are––to gain interesting work, personal growth, and financial gains. Nan shares her 10 "Winning at Working" Lessons––common sense, but uncommon practices; ways to help you reengage your talent; create your own luck; differentiate your work performance; and make a difference at work. Her stop-wishing, start-creating approach offers savvy insights to help you get ahead, enjoy working, and achieve financial rewards.

Using a story-telling approach, mixed with commentary, analysis, and reflective exercises, Nan identifies mistakes, struggles, disappointments, failures, and successes in the workplace. Hitting Your Stride is an inspiring business-and-life book, with an individualized approach to bringing the best of who you are to work––by someone who has been an employee, a manager, and a senior executive. Hitting Your Stride will help you find your way in your career, along your own path and with your own style.

About the Author

Nan S. Russell has spent more than twenty years in management. She went from a minimum-wage employee to vice president of 4.4 billion dollar QVC with five promotions in seven years. She has held management positions in human resource development, communication, marketing, and line management. Her eColumns, "Winning at Working" and "In the Scheme of Things" appear regularly on more than eighty websites and ezines, such as womentodaymagazine.com, expertmagazine.com, jobseekernews.com, and careernewz.com, and online newspapers, with estimated readership in excess of five million. She is also the host of a weekly program on webtalkradio.net called: Work Matters with Nan Russell. Nan is president of MountainWorks Communications and lives in Montana. Find out more about Nan and her work at www.nanrussell.com.

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