Winner Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Get the results, recognition, and reputation you deserve
In TIP, Dave Gordon tells the engaging and motivating story of Brian Davis, an average salesperson who is fired without warning for being average. After 10 years at the same company, he is suddenly faced with no immediate prospects, an uncertain future, and a young family to support. With minimal savings, and determined to not lose everything he’s worked for, he reluctantly takes the only job he can get at a popular bar and restaurant called Crossroads. Guided by an unlikely mentor, and insightful colleagues and customers in an unforgiving environment of relentless customer service, he learns the four simple principles of TIP to take control of his life, his career, and his future:
Enhanced self-awareness
Confident communications
Commitment-based actions
Fulfillment of a unique value promise
TIP is a timeless, inspirational story created to remind anyone in a position judged by performance that the only way to achieve continued recognition and growth in work and life is to take personal accountability for your reputation and results.
Whatever your role, or level of success in your career, TIP is a guide that will help you discover, or remember, how to consistently bring unique value to your team, your organization, and your most important customers. This easy read will provide a strategy for personal success, complete with coaching and action plans.
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Success. Innovation. Creativity. Growth. We all want these things at work - but the one thing they all have in common is that they involve failure.
A fear of failure, or the inability to bounce back and learn from failures, is one of the biggest things that can hold us back in our professional development - so how do we learn how to fail well and develop our resilience? Wherever we work, and whatever role we deliver, we all have the power to change our thinking and our response to failure - Bounce Back is here to help.
Written by Business Psychologist Dr Susan Kahn, this book will show you how to embrace failure. Failing fast, failing well, and learning how to be agile and resilient at work is a vital part of being a successful and innovative leader, approaching opportunities with excitement and creativity, and driving forward your personal and professional growth.
Packed with practical exercises, inspirational case studies and a useful resilience self-assessment guide, Bounce Back will show you how to invest in your resilience in a deliberate way, and empower you to face risk head-on. From learning how to respond well to critical feedback, to understanding cultural attitudes to failure around the world, this book will help you be a stronger, more resilient you.
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Just the thought of negotiating your salary can feel terrifying. But here’s a secret: pay negotiation doesn’t have to be scary.
For over 20 years, Kate Dixon has coached clients of all backgrounds through pay negotiations and worked inside all types of organizations managing pay and creating offers. Now, she’s sharing her secrets about the process so you can confidently negotiate your package and earn what you deserve.
With the clear explanations, actionable tips, and valuable client stories in Pay UP: Unlocking Insider Secrets of Salary Negotiation, you’ll learn:
The terms and concepts you’ll encounter — and what they mean for you
What to research and how to find everything you need to know
What to say and do (and what NOT to)
How to shift your mindset to become more confident and competent
What assumptions are holding you back and how to leave them behind
Whether you’re a top executive or fresh out of school, this step-by-step system will help you create your negotiating plan from the ground up — starting with your research and ending with accepting your dream offer!
Kate Dixon has helped her clients walk away from negotiations feeling heard and valued — and you can, too. Are you ready?
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
A child of immigrants, Margery Kraus knew the value of hard work from an early age. Graduating from college before she had finished high school, she learned to be a risk taker. As a young wife and mother coming of age in the 1960s, she faced plenty of people who told her, “You can’t do that.” But in the end, she did: she founded APCO Worldwide, a global consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC, specializing in public affairs, communication, and business consulting for major multinationals. Under her leadership, the company grew from nothing to almost $150 million in revenues. In Roots And Wings, Kraus shares the ten lessons she learned from motherhood and leadership that guided her along the way—an inspiration to all seeking to overcome obstacles, achieve career and personal success, and do the right thing.
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Welcome to The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Veterans Edition! This book will successfully serve any veteran job-seeker from any armed-services or civilian-service background, no matter your rank or professional experience.
Built using the multi-award-winning The 20-Minute Networking Meeting networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Veterans Edition puts you in control of your job-search discussions and, ultimately, your career. Learn, step-by-step, the most important civilian skill in finding employment: How to network for a job.
Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a multitude of industries and professions, combined with over 50 years of the authors' own experience, the Veterans Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach designed specifically for veterans, for any kind of job search, from a hiring perspective.
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Former US Navy pilot Dan Bozung graduated from the Harvard Business School and took what should have been a seamless civilian transition and skillfully crafted it into a series of bungled misadventures that left him chastened, defeated, and a complete asshole.
What the hell happened? How could someone with every possible advantage upon entering the private sector screw it up so royally? That is precisely what Bozung seeks to find out.
Comical. Infuriating. Incisive. This Civilian Sh*t Is Hard is a cautionary tale for transitioning veterans and a rally cry for those doing hard time in the corporate cubicle, struggling to find their way in today's workplace.
Finalist Business: Careers The 2020 Best Book Awards
Break through barriers to achieve a rewarding future in tech
Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators seeks to help women of color overcome the obstacles that prevent them from pursuing and staying in tech careers. Contrary to popular belief, tech careers are diverse and fun—and they go far beyond just coding. This book will show you that today's tech careers are incredibly dynamic, and you'll learn how your soft skills—communication, public speaking, networking—can help you succeed in tech.
This book will guide readers through the process of cultivating strong relationships and building a network that will get you were you want to be. Readers will learn to identify a strong, knowledgeable support network that they can rely on for guidance or mentorship. This step is crucial in getting young women of color into tech careers and keeping them there.
Striving for personal and professional success is a complicated endeavor. Fortunately, it's not one that we have to traverse alone. By incorporating the best advice from seven accomplished, professional women, this book strives to provide girls with a blueprint for overcoming obstacles, prioritizing personal development, and making their way in a world that desperately needs them to succeed. Full of insights, personal anecdotes, and actionable advice, Her Toobox is a proverbial passing of the torch from one generation of gifted and talented women to another.
