Career Growth – Let's Read

Make Your Workplace Great

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RECOMMENDATION News flash: Happy workers make successful companies. That is what Steven J. Stein’s research concludes. Much of the information in this book is based on the results of his own surveys. He helped develop the “Benchmark of...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

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RECOMMENDATION Today’s employees expect continuous learning and career growth. If they don’t receive the training they seek, they leave and their firms suffer. Organizational development consultants Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni show...

Relentless

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RECOMMENDATION The toughest competitors are relentless people who will do whatever it takes to gain victory over and over. Famous trainer Tim S. Grover, who worked with Michael Jordan, Dwayne Wade and the late Kobe Bryant, among other champions...

The Little Book of Stoicism

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RECOMMENDATION Jonas Salzgeber wants you to forget the clichés and distortions you may associate with Stoicism. In this entertaining and informative text, Salzgeber takes readers on a journey through the Greek and Roman family tree of this...

Do Over

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RECOMMENDATION Prolific business author Jon Acuff offers a handy formula for investing in your career by building a Career Savings Account made up of four investments: “relationships, skills, character and hustle.” He devotes a section to each...

Career Fear

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RECOMMENDATION Tech philosopher Somi Arian argues that the future of work isn’t as scary as you may think. She outlines the three dominant work cultures in the 21st century: corporate, entrepreneurial and influencer, and advises on choosing the...

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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RECOMMENDATION This wide-ranging self-help style guide to a better life and career covers an enormous amount of territory. From whether to play it nice and straight, manipulate like Machiavelli, or “fake it until you make it,” lifestyle expert...

Recognizing and Rewarding Employees

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RECOMMENDATION Author R. Brayton Bowen takes a thoughtful approach to understanding the new generation of employees who seem to need rewards and recognition to spur their motivation. He attributes their incentive-based work ethic to workplace...

Pushback

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RECOMMENDATION The Bible says to ask and you will receive, yet many women are reticent about asking. Women now earn more advanced degrees than men, outnumber men in the workforce and control more than half the world’s wealth. But when it comes to...

Up Is Not The Only Way

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Recommendation Today’s employees want meaningful work and a better work-life balance. Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams and Lynn Cowart – three consultants who’ve experienced the six possible career paths covered here – offer a manual about the...

Work Party

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Recommendation Create & Cultivate Founder and CEO Jaclyn Johnson says you can succeed if you combine hard work with your passion. In her terms, that combination is a “WorkParty” – her version of the traditional American dream. Johnson was at the...

Hacking Innovation

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RECOMMENDATION Josh Linkner describes the twisted mind-set and tactics of criminal hackers. He engagingly persuades you to change your attitude toward hacker techniques like crowdsourcing, rapid experimentation, reverse engineering and mash-ups...