Career & Money

A Life of Mindful Creativity
On Becoming an Artist : Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
by Ellen J. Langer, Ph.D.
All of us have had the experience of being totally engaged in something-a movie, an afternoon of adventure, or a new love affair-and, like Bonnard, we seek lives steeped in such experiences. Bonnard found creative engagement in painting and lived a rich

You've Got the Job, Now What?
Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career
by Heather Beckel
You've Got the Job, Now What? It's your first day, and of course you're excited, but you're also a little scared. All right, more than a little. Believe me, I've been there. I became an assistant in the White House with no grace period for learning

Training Period
Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career
by Heather Beckel
Ask for a training period with the assistant you are replacing when you accept the job as an assistant. The training period should be no more than a week (five days), but at least two days. Suggest that you arrive at your new workplace an hour after

8 Steps to Making the Right Life Decisions at the Right Times
Crunch Time
by Ken Lindner
I have devoted my professional and personal lives to enabling people to fulfill their potential, by giving them the tools to make wise, constructive, and self-enhancing decisions.

Suit Yourself: The Secret of Career Satisfaction
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
One of the bestselling career guides in America today - now in a new fourth edition, revised and updated for the Internet age. Do What You Are has already helped hundreds of thousands of people find truly satisfying work.

Bragging Myths We Live and Die By, Myth #1: A Job Well Done Speaks For Itself
Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It
by Peggy Klaus
It's not my father's workplace anymore, or even the one many of your mothers may have entered in the 1970s or '80s. The days of job security in exchange for loyalty and hard work are long gone. For most, this isn't news.

The Three Rules of Epidemics
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause

Why $100K Can and Should Be Part of Your Career Plans
The $100,000 Club : How to Make a Six-Figure Income
by Debra A. Benton
Six figures. It's the magic number, the symbol of a successful life. For many of us, it seems out of reach. But D. A. Benton, the author of How to Think Like a CEO and Lions Don't Need to Roar, says that you can dramatically boost your earning power-if

Money and Its Opposite
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat

Introduction
Six Thinking Hats
by Edward de Bono, Ph.D.
Your success in business depends on how well you think. Six Thinking Hats can help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers

First Week-Don'ts
Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career
by Heather Beckel
Don't assume your new boss likes everything the former assistant does. It's possible that while your boss was very comfortable with the former assistant, there are things that she'd like done differently. You'll become aware of these things quickly

What Is Your Passion?
Fun Is Good : How To Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career
by Mike Veeck, Pete Williams
Where do your passions lie? What brings you joy? Consider for a moment where you are at this stage of your life. If during your childhood years you had received a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future and were able to see where you are right now

Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
There are many ways to describe the ebb and flow, yin and yang, bubble-blowing and bubble-bursting phases of business cycles. Here's another one: microscopes and telescopes. In the microscope phase, there's a cry for level-headed thinking.

First Week-Do's
Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career
by Heather Beckel
Your first few weeks on the job will be stressful, as there will be a lot to learn. And at the risk of increasing your stress, you need to be aware that you'll be creating a first impression that will stick with you-not just with your immediate boss

Define Your Business Model
The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
You want to make meaning. You've come up with a mantra. You've started prototyping your product or service. The fourth step is to define a business model. To do this you need to answer two questions: Who has your money in their pockets?

Why Do We Make Such Bad Decisions?!
Crunch Time
by Ken Lindner
Ever since I became a career counselor, I've been stunned by how often bright and talented individuals make self-destructive and self-sabotaging decisions. It's absolutely amazing, and a profoundly sad reality.

How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company
Microsoft Rebooted
by Robert Slater
I have been thinking about writing a book on Bill Gates and Microsoft for a very long time. As part of the research I conducted for Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), a book about computer pioneers and developers.

Make Meaning
The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
Many books about entrepreneurship begin with a rigorous process of self-examination, asking you to determine if you are truly up to the task of starting an organization. Some typical examples are: Can you work long hours at low wages?

Are You Really Too Busy to Write a Thank-You Note?
by Sandra Ford Walston
No one is ever too important or too busy to say 'thank you!' Yet, I am continually surprised at how few thank-you notes are sent these days. In this day of 'high tech,' the writing of thank-you notes seems the most nearly effortless means to attain

The Idea of Fierce
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time
by Susan Scott
If you have opened this book, it may be because the conversations you've been having with your coworkers or with your family members often fail to produce the results you want. Over ten thousand hours of one-to-one conversations with industry leaders