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.
Success in the transitioning world of work—where all companies and all business conversations are dramatically changing—demands original thinking, fresh approaches, and storytelling muscle. Enter Authorize It!—an insightful new method that will have you thinking like a writer and winning.
The good news is that you don’t need to be a writer—you just need to think like one. Media executive and author Deborah Burns shares her five breakthrough storytelling lessons and their key takeaways, prompts, and real-world Q & A—along with her proprietary story-shaping tool that pulls it all together so you can authorize the stories you need to tell for success.
Transform into a more effective storyteller today and take the reins of the career you’d like to live. Whether you’re an in-office or remote corporate employee, a manager or manager of a side-gig, a solopreneur, freelancer, or contract worker, these storytelling principles will help you to clarify your actions and reactions, remain centered on your goals, better understand yourself and others, improve your creative problem-solving, stay open to the new and to the possible—and most importantly, to live up to your true potential.
"PLAYING FOR KEEPS” in business is a self-help memoir that provides a “cheat sheet” for your career success.
Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author, Mom and Mentor Therese Allison is recognized as a groundbreaking pioneer and female executive, who broke the glass ceiling in a mostly male business niche (insurance brokerage). Her goal now is to empower women (and men) to “WIN” in business and life by landing a dream job, building business allies, achieving financial success and creating a work/life balance.
Based on 35 years of years of success in business and life, Allison uncovers how she became financially independent at age 38 when her company (McKenna & Associates) was sold to AON, and then retired early at age 43 to spend quality time with her children.
Imagine a world where people loved going to work thanks to leaders who were inspiring, supportive and create a culture that lifts each team member up. If this has not been your experience, you are not alone. There are, however, companies and leaders that lead and lift their team and their organizations.
Learn Lead Lift was written to inspire leaders and give them a framework for being /becoming great leaders who create teams where every person is valued and encouraged to fulfill their potential. The kind of workplace you are excited to enter each day.
In her work with organizations of all sizes and industries, author Wendy Ryan noticed leaders struggling with the same things. It made no difference if they were leaders in the private sector, government agencies, startups or non-profits.
Successful organizations today are increasingly aware they must continuously change and evolve to remain relevant, and a key part of every leader’s role is to build their individual and organizational capacity for ongoing transformation. In response to this Ryan developed the 3T Model, an empowering mindset for leaders, which supports decision making and resource allocation by Tolerating, Transforming or Transcending. When you apply the 3T Model to issues like systemic racism or any other form of institutionalized oppression, it quickly becomes clear that Transforming is not only the right option - it is the only option.
Featured by Yahoo! Finance, Advertising Week, Thrive Global, Booklist Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Market Watch and multiple affiliates of CBS, Fox and NBC awarded BlueInk Review Notable Book Seal and IndieReader Approved Designation, this non-fiction business and self-help creativity guide encourages innovation in aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders. Have you ever looked at a product and thought, 'Why didn't I think of that?' or, 'I'm just not a creative person!' Improve problem-solving skills and increase the effectiveness of knowledge management in your organization to come up with the next game-changing idea to hit the market!
In this book you will:
Learn how others innovate by examining the world around them
Practice asking questions, and see how to recognize details in observations
Complete creative exercises to get into the right mindset
Understand the importance of sharing ideas, and assess their feasibility
Fueling You to Find: Your Next Big Idea
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A Mindful Guide for Playing Your Best Game at Work.
Two-thirds of working professional are burned out. If you long for more meaning, purpose, and happiness at work and at home . . . it's time to make a change.
In today's uncertain and ever-changing world, the "new normal" for working professionals is overworked and stressed. Flexibility, resilience, and the ability to rapidly pivot business strategies are the new rules of the game. But maintaining life at that speed is a recipe for burnout—not a path to long-term fulfillment.
The good news—there is an easier way! One that ends the cycle of burnout and paves the way to a life of success and happiness.
Certified leadership coach and mindfulness expert Mary Mosham has helped hundreds of top leaders worldwide to transform their careers and personal lives. In her book, Mindful Career, Mary shares real-life stories, evidence-based strategies, and powerful tools to show you:
The real reasons you are exhausted
How to end the cycle of burnout and create a purposeful career
What top leaders do to stay physically, mentally, and emotionally resilient
The secret to leading with authenticity and building trusting relationships
How to achieve breakthrough results despite challenging times
The 7 keys to unlock your greatest potential and amplify your impact
About to graduate from college? At your first "real" job and ready for your next career move? Trying to get ahead in the fast-paced, ever-changing and dynamic world of work? Navigating the waters of a professional career, from landing a job to working in a startup or large corporation, is more challenging than ever. There isn't a lot of room for error and few mentors with the time to help develop you for success. How can you quickly learn the interpersonal and professional skills to get ahead? Where can you obtain the knowledge to avoid mistakes and pitfalls? Who can you turn to for help?
Your Personal Career Coach delivers sage advice through its real-life stories from 25 successful professionals who bring their messages to life. Within the pages of Your Personal Career Coach are stories to help you write a resume that gets interviews, interview effectively, ask for a raise, know when and how to quit your job, understand your boss, work effectively with a team, and many more that will enhance your professional skills, boost your job performance and help you succeed.
Rather than a stuffy, impersonal instructional 'how to' book, Your Personal Career Coach delivers engaging, relatable and practical stories from professionals who have learned the lessons over the course of their own careers, including some missteps. The result is a collection of valuable insights, humorous confessions, and inspiring advice from authors with diverse experiences and perspectives that will help you advance your own career.
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.
