Unwritten Rules : Cracking Corporate Canada's Hidden Codes: How a Senegalese Immigrant Learned to Work Twice as Hard, Think Three Steps Ahead, and Rede
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Unwritten Rules: Cracking Corporate Canada's Hidden Codes
By Issakha Dia
Unwritten Rules: Cracking Corporate Canada's Hidden Codes is a gripping playbook from a Senegalese immigrant who landed in Montreal in 2010 with a suitcase of textbooks and a relentless spirit. Over 15 years, Issakha Dia transformed himself from an outsider into a senior leader in Canada, mastering audit, risk, and compliance across industries like manufacturing, finance, and governance. This isn't a memoir of triumph-it's a raw guide to decoding Canada's subtle systems: the unspoken rules, the quiet slights, the ceilings you bend with grit.
From a dusty hometown's 12-hour study days to coding in North African dorms, Dia forged tools-discipline, tech savvy, resilience-that cracked corporate Canada. He outworked rejections (50 "no's" in seven months), doubled peers' output at a rental firm, and battled Bay Street's wolves to lead teams at global institutions. Now a citizen, husband, and father in a quiet Ontario community, he shares hard-earned lessons: wield your past, outpace doubt, turn "no" into fuel. For immigrants and climbers daring to claim their place, this is your hammer-forged in struggle, proven in rise.
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- ISBN-13: 9798317417628
- ISBN-10: 9798317417628
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: April 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.22 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 92
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