Career & Money

The Guy Next Door
Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore the complicated role money has played in their lives, whether they're hiding from creditors

What Sticks?
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath, Ph.D., Dan Heath
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions.

Money is an uncomfortable subject
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment
by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
Many people would rather talk about their sex lives than about their bank balance. We love money, and we hate it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. Money can be a source of great joy and creativity, or it can bring frustration

Why Self-Employment?
Running a 21st-Century Small Business: The Owner's Guide to Starting and Growing Your Company
by Randy W. Kirk
So you want to own your own business. You're not alone. The idea of being in business for oneself is as American as apple pie or baseball. It's the rare American who hasn't at least considered the idea from time to time.

Key #1: Letting Go of Your Bananas
Letting Go of Your Bananas: How to Become More Successful by Getting Rid of Everything Rotten in Your Life
by Dr. Daniel T. Drubin
All barrier busting and personal growth begins the moment you are willing to accept the truth about yourself. And the truth is, most of your bananas, or limitations, whether real or imagined, have been created either by you or by someone important

The Blank Page
The Screenwriter's Workbook
by Syd Field
The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write. A short time ago, I was having dinner with a group of friends, and as is so often the case, the subject turned to movies. We talked about films we had seen, films we liked, films we didn't like

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

Internships and Competition
Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money - A How-to Guide
by Carmen Wong Ulrich
Internships. They can be paid or unpaid, a genuine training and recruiting program, a glorified temp job, or, worst-case scenario, just another form of indentured servitude. For the most wanted, cool jobs and careers, the latter two types tend

Around The Clustered World
The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are
by Michael J. Weiss
At first glance, Berwyn, Illinois, resembles many of the close-in suburbs of Chicago, a settled middle-class community of beige brick bungalows known as a gateway for immigrants. Since Berwyn's founding a century ago, waves of Czechs, Italians, Poles

Inside eBay
The Perfect Store
by Adam Cohen
In this brisk, engaging chronicle of one of the most stunning success stories in American business history, Adam Cohen takes us inside eBay the corporation as well as into the community of eBay's passionate users.

Stress at Work
by US Department of Veterans Affairs
The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Perhaps now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers and, in turn, to the health organizations.

Watch That Blood on the Footlights!
The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs ofUnintelligent Life in the Workplace
by Adam Horowitz
Transferring Stephen King's fiendishly well crafted horror tales to another medium is tricky. Sure, Carrie in 1976 and Misery in '90 were excellent skin-crawling movie theater experiences.

Research and Development
The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs ofUnintelligent Life in the Workplace
by Adam Horowitz
A bad idea has to start somewhere. It's that old business maxim: You can't make a defective omelet without designing a really inefficient, expensive and dangerous way of breaking some eggs. Welcome to R&D.

Criteria for Inclusion
The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs ofUnintelligent Life in the Workplace
by Adam Horowitz
Welcome to The Dumbest Moments in Business History. This volume is a collection of cautionary tales from which we all can learn valuable lessons about how not to conduct business. So I'm pretty certain you can expense it.

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.

The Art of Internal Entrepreneuring
The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
A large number of aspiring entrepreneurs currently work for big companies. Like all entrepreneurs, they dream of creating innovative products or services and wonder if this can be done internally. The answer is yes.

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?

Get Going
The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
The third step is not to fire up Word to write a business plan, launch PowerPoint to craft a pitch, or boot Excel to build a financial projection. Wrong, wrong, wrong! My goal in giving you this advice is not to reduce the sales of Microsoft Office

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?

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.