Spartanburg, SC (August 31, 2007) – Dr Richard L. Routh has spent the last twenty years consulting with and influencing corporate executives from many different types of companies. He has also been a business executive, and currently heads the “The Institute for CIO Excellence” (www.cioexcellence.com ) while serving as a college professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Dr. Routh’s 30 years of experience has led him to an overwhelming conclusion: a proper understanding of role in corporate politics is an often missed, but critically important, key to understanding, appreciating and effectively influencing corporate executives.

Dr. Routh’s new book, titled The Power of Role – The Upside of Corporate Politics, addresses role and provides a roadmap for how to thrive in the corporate political environment, how to excel in corporate politics without losing your self-respect (and the respect of others) and how to groom yourself for a C-level executive position. The book can be purchased on-line at http://stores.lulu.com/PowerOfRole .

Readers of The Power of Role – The Upside of Corporate Politics will gain a practical, workable, positive corporate political philosophy and learn what differentiates a good executive from a talented senior corporate manager who will never make it to the executive suite.

The book is aimed at senior managers and business executives but is a useful tool for anyone who works in a business environment. It provides a clear explanation of corporate structure and function and provides insight into what motivates senior executives, making it an invaluable tool for entry level workers, and serves as a poignant reminder to the more experienced executives as to where their focus should be.

“In my 30 years in the business world as a business executive, consultant, Army officer and college professor I have witnessed many people struggle because of a lack of understanding of role in corporate politics,” stated Dr. Richard L. Routh. “This book will help readers gain greater influence and greater political clout in the corporate world, improve their productivity and dramatically enhance their effectiveness as a corporate executive.”

About Ric Routh
Dr. Richard L. (Ric) Routh teaches corporate executives how to thrive in the corporate political environment. He is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Informatics at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where he teaches the Senior Seminar to prepare graduating seniors to understand the challenges that face a corporate CIO. As a business strategist, he teaches how to communicate in a political corporate environment. Ric is also the President and Executive Director of The Institute for CIO Excellence (www.CIOexcellence.com ), an executive training institute that specializes in mentoring and training senior IT professionals in the skills necessary to function as highly successful CIOs in today’s demanding global business climate. As president of the GINESYS Corporation, he also supervised the creation and operation of a highly successful (and profitable) dot.com business in the sporting goods market niche. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1978, he served for ten years as an officer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. During these ten years he held positions as the founder and first Director of the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Training Facility and Adjunct Technical Advisor on Artificial Intelligence matters to the Cabinet of the President of the United States. Ric has been published in numerous journals and books, including being the author of the authoritative chapter on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Systems in the prestigious H.B. Maynards Industrial Engineering Handbook.

About The Institute for CIO Excellence
The Institute for CIO Excellence specializes in mentoring and training senior IT professionals in the skills necessary to function as highly successful CIOs in today’s demanding global business climate. The Institute delivers premier training to senior IT professionals in the areas of IT alignment, IT governance, corporate politics for the CIO, IT project justification, effective e-commerce strategies, common sense off shoring strategies and corporate leadership. Visit the institute at www.CIOexcellence.com , call (800) 277-8338 or email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

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