The Microsoft Edge: Insider Strategies for Building Success

Behind the scenes at Microsoft, some of the nation's most savvy and successful managers are at work every day. How can their innovative perspectives and daily practices help guide your own journey in the road to success? Microsoft veteran Julie Bick reveals these insider strategies, in this book packed with on-the-job insights and practical techniques. Here are the lessons and secrets that can give you the edge in any industry.

How did the team at Microsofrt pioneer, build, and shepherd the company through exponential growth in a constantly changing market? What are the qualities, the habits, the quirks that keep them moving ahead? And how can you apply what they've discovered to your own career?

From vice presidents to front-line managers, Bick interviews Microsofties to learn how they:

• Launch new products and get the most out of not-so-new products
• Design websites and do business on the Internet
• Work with service agencies, dealers, coworkers, and the press
• Hire the best people they can and keep them happy

The Microsoft Edge is an entertaining read for seasoned managers. It's a smart business tool kit for the new kid on the block. Apply these tips, stories, and answers to managerial conundrums, to your career in any business. Take it on your next plane ride!

From the bestselling author of "All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned from Microsoft" come lessons for working more intelligently and managing more effectively.

Julie Bick is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University and a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked at Microsoft for five years as a Product Manager and Group Manager on a variety of products for the office, home, and web. She is the author of the national bestseller All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft, which has been published in languages around the world, from Chinese to Dutch to Portuguese.

A portion of Bick's proceeds from this book will be donated to children's charities.