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Book Title is: Your Job Is Not Your Friend, Style Up!
Subtitle: Workplace Survival, Personal Mastery & Career Agility
Foreword by Francis Kamulegeya
Authors: DOROTHY KYEYUNE . JACKIE NAMARA RUKARE The book is not a hard cover one. We want the title words in Red colour capital letters going down on white background. Brief description of the book in the abstract here....Abstract
Book Title: Your Job Is Not Your Friend, Style Up!
Subtitle: Workplace Survival, Personal Mastery & Career Agility

Your Job Is Not Your Friend, Style Up! exposes the myth that corporate loyalty automatically guarantees career security. It urges professionals to reframe employment as a commercial transaction rather than an identity. Set against the backdrop of modern African corporate environments and global market shifts, the book asserts that academic habits and technical excellence alone are insufficient for long-term career growth. Thriving requires shifting from passive compliance to active personal mastery, fluid adaptability, and unshakeable boundary management.
Through real-world narratives, reflection tools, and strategic frameworks, the book guides readers across six core dimensions of workplace survival:
1. Deconstructing Workplace Traps
It demystifies "golden handcuffs," chronic workplace burnout, false harmony, and the Four Burners Theory to help employees protect their health and personal life while maintaining high performance.
2. Navigating power and office politics
The book Maps the "informal power grid," shadow influencers, and "monster" managers, while detailing the hazards of workplace romance and the art of "managing up".
3. Building Relational Capital
It defines the distinct roles of Mentors, Coaches and Sponsors, teaching readers how to construct a "Personal Board of Directors" and leverage professional associations.
4. Futureproofing Against AI
The book highlights the human capabilities that generative AI cannot replicate, including emotional intelligence (EQ), ethical judgment, contextual intelligence, and agile problem-solving.
5. Global Mobility & Talent Management
It provides a practical roadmap for international assignments evaluating net purchasing power, work permits, and cross-cultural adaptability while also applying the 9-Box Grid to manage high performers and high-potential talent.
6. Operating as a "Company of One"
‘Your Job Is Not Your Friend, Style Up! empowers workers to view themselves as independent brands with portfolio careers, offering protocols on strategic side hustles, counter-offer traps, and dignified exit strategies.
This book offers an essential reality check and strategic playbook for ambitious professionals, corporate leaders, and HR practitioners seeking to build a sustainable, resilient career without sacrificing their well-being, personal values, or sense of purpose.
I have attached a brief kind of design for the front. For the back we will use author blurbs, attachment has a sample of book cover design but u need to add the Foreword and the authors, also be very unique and creative

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