Smart Lemming Action Items: Think Big Manifesto, Becoming CEO Material, Lessons Learned by Recession-Proof Companies
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10 New Book Releases to Proactively Manage Your Career Now
- I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job: Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written a smart, counter-intuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify the Ten Least Wanted — the people you hate — while revealing the strategies to neutralize them. Learn to fly right by the “Stop Sign” (nay-sayer) and rise above the pronouncements of the “Know-it-None.” I Hate People! teaches you how to become a more effective Soloist — one of those bold individuals daring to work alone or collaborate with a handful of other talented people….while artfully deflecting the rest.
The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again: Michael Port and Mina Samuels offer a new manifesto that challenges you to think bigger about who you are, and what you offer the world by unhooking from the guru track, learnding how to be comfortable with discomfort, and joining people in doing powerful things.
Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders: Need a new tool in your toolkit? Jason Jennings interviews America’s best performing new CEOs that doubled revenues, tripled earnings per share, and doubled their company’s net profit margins. Based on these interviews, Jennings offers strategies that will inspire any new leader to take the lead and start delivering.
CEO Material: How to Be a Leader in Any Organization: D. A. Benton explains how to become highly visible and indispensable to your organization. YOu’ll learn how to project confidence, even when something hasn’t gone your way. Benton uses her four C’s that no true leader can be without: confidence, constant communication, craftsmanship, and coworker collaboration.
Letters from Leaders: Personal Advice for Tomorrow’s Leaders from the World’s Most Influential People: Henry O. Dormann—founder, chairman, and editor-in-chief of LEADERS magazine, provides a collection of wisdom and inspiration addressed to young people from the world’s most influential people—advice on leadership, goal achievement, public service, and life journeys.
The Recession-Proof Business: Lessons from the Greatest Recession Success Stories of All Time: Victor Cheng, a former McKinsey consultant analyzed 12 US recessions spanning 136 years. This research uncovered dozens of startup companies that thrived during the economic chaos of their day. Cheng explains four simple rules that allowed these companies to survive and thrive, while others died.
Advice from the Top: What Minority Women Say about Their Career Success: Valencia Campbell interviewed fourteen extraordinary minority women, all of whom shared stories about the path to the top of their fields. Advice from the Top offers tips and advice to minority women and others wondering what it takes to succeed in careers in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds.
Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0: Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good is the story of the entrepreneurs who learned their lesson from the Internet bust of 2000 and in recent years have created groundbreaking new Web companies. The second iteration of the dot-coms—dubbed “Web 2.0”—is all about bringing people together. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace unite friends online; YouTube lets anyone post videos for the world to see; Digg.com allows Internet users to vote on the most relevant news of the day; Six Apart sells software that enables bloggers to post their viewpoints online; and Slide helps people customize their virtual selves.
Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work: Lurie draws on philosophy, theology, and science to help us answer our deepest questions, comfort our deepest yearnings, and become better people–more connected to each other, and to the greater purpose by prospering while keeping your integrity; balance faith, honor, and ambition; using your workplace as your moral and spiritual “gymnasium”; finding deeper meaning and purpose in your work; facing your fears and failures, and keep going; gaining real respect–and give it; and living one authentic life–at work, and everywhere else.
Monday Morning Sales Tips … To Help You Sell More Every Week of the Year: Monday Morning Sales Tips is filled with ideas that will help make you more successful. We all face times when we need some inspiration or maybe a reassuring pat on the back. There are times when you need hope and advice. This book is for those times when you need to reach into yourselves and unleash your sales potential to continue on your selling journey and reach success.
