Career & Money
105 Articles & Excerpts
Destiny vs. Self-Created Meaning
What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson Wouldn't it be so much easier if you got a letter in the mail when you were seventeen, signed by someone who had a direct pipeline to Ultimate Meaning, telling you exactly who you are and what your true destiny is?
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
Are You a SalesDog?
Sales Dogs : You Do Not Have to Be an Attack Dog to Be Successful in Sales (Rich Dad's Advisors series) by Blair Singer By knowing the five basic breeds of people-the Pit Bull, the Golden Retriever, the Poodle, the Chihuahua, and the Basset Hound-readers will have the necessary insight to improve their business and selling savvy.
The Stanford Survey
Getting It Right by Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D. A common assumption among psychologists is that we all research our own neuroses, and I clearly am no exception. Since the 1980s at Stanford, the primary focus of both my clinical and research work has been the stresses inherent in the lives of working
Claiming Value in Negotiation
Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond by Deepak Malhotra, Max H. Bazerman Whether you've 'seen it all' or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take
Neither Here nor There
Mommy Wars by Leslie Morgan Steiner Some of us working moms find ourselves caught in a gray zone between work and home. We are working but have scaled back our ambitions. Our employers, our colleagues, even our husbands, may not comprehend what we've given up in order to have more time
Prologue
You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again : The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny by Suzanne Hansen Hilarious and addictive, this chronicle of a small-town girl's stint as a celebrity nanny reveals what really happens in the diaper trenches of Hollywood. When Oregon native Suzanne Hansen becomes a live-in nanny to the children of Hollywood über
Money Study: The Learning to Earn Fast Fivesome
How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins Money study-I call it that to emphasize how vital it is to learn how to acquire new knowledge quickly and thoroughly. Knowing how to learn fast is the key to rapid personal growth and quick sales success. As adults, it's easy to fall into the habit
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
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.
Introduction
The Culture Code by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille The Culture Code is the unconscious meaning we apply to any given thing - a car, a type of food, a relationship, even a country - via the culture in which we are raised.
Success Strategy 1
Stop Sabotaging Your Career: 8 Proven Strategies to Succeed - in Spite of Yourself by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. If you've been passed over for a well-deserved promotion, overlooked even when your ideas are great, or denied the bonus you counted on-don't blame the system or your boss. Chances are you've been sabotaging your own career.
Angst
The Money is in the Gravy: Finding the Career that Nourishes You by John Clark John Clark says that work and joy should go hand in hand. Now in this uplifting, inspiring, and often very funny book, he shows you how. With laughs and insights courtesy of Dilbert, Doonesbury, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, Clark guides you along
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
50 Rules from 50 Years of Trying to Make a Living
It's All Lies and That's the Truth by Bernie Brillstein When the New York reviewed my 1999 memoir, Where Did I Go Right?: You're No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead, the book was described as 'unmistakably Brillstein: loud, astute, crude, alternately self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating
Exploring Your Decision-Making Foundation
Crunch Time by Ken Lindner One of the great benefits that I derived from being an athlete and studying different sports is that I learned to identify Crunch Time, and thereafter developed the ability to, in many instances, respond constructively when a Crunch Time challenge
Detours Are the Route to Happiness
Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success by Penelope Trunk Are you taking long lunches? Ignoring sexual harassment? Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like you don't have enough to do? The answer to all three, if you want to succeed in your career on your own terms, should be yes!
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.
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
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
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