Career & Money

The Shanghai Squeeze
Fast Boat to China: High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.

The Impossible Question
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
by William Poundstone
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? is an indispensable book for anyone in business. Managers seeking the most talented employees will learn to incorporate puzzle interviews in their search for the top candidates. Job seekers competing in today's tight market

Your Entity Menu
Own Your Own Corporation : Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them
by Garrett Sutton, Esq.
Own Your Own Corporation reveals how private citizens can take advantage of incorporating themselves and their business to save thousands of dollars in taxes and protect themselves against financial disaster.

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.

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!

Success
by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
Many serious letters and a half-humorous criticism in Punch suggest that I am to be regarded as the apostle of a pure materialism. That is not so. I quite recognise the existence of other ambitions in the walks of Art, Religion, or Literature.

Increasing Efficiency In Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
by Walter Dill Scott, Ph.D.
The modern business man is the true heir of the old magicians. Every thing he touches seems to increase ten or a hundredfold in value and usefulness. All the old methods, old tools, old instruments have yielded to his transforming spell

The Power of Concentration
by Theron Q. Dumont
It was never intended that man should be poor. When wealth is obtained under the proper conditions it broadens the life. Everything has its value. Everything has a good use and a bad use. The forces of mind like wealth can be directed either for good

Character
by Samuel Smiles
Work is one of the best educators of practical character. It evokes and disciplines obedience, self-control, attention, application, and perseverance; giving a man deftness and skill in his special calling, and aptitude and dexterity

Cheerfulness as a Life Power
by Orison Swett Marden
Business is king. We often say that cotton is king, or corn is king, but with greater propriety we may say that the king is that great machine which is kept in motion by the Law of Supply and Demand: the destinies of all mankind are ruled by it.

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.

The Slash Mind-Set: Begin, Improve, Reinvent. Repeat
One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success
by Marci Alboher
One Person/Multiple Careers reveals how a new breed of workplace trailblazers have combined multiple talents to create the kind of work they've always dreamed of and to enrich their personal lives as well.

Why College Makes No Sense
Real World Careers: Why College Is Not the Only Path to Becoming Rich
by Betsy Cummings
A Great Career-Without a College Degree! Possible? Absolutely! Today's job market has lots of room for people who leave school early or don't plan to go to college at all.

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