Women and Business

Your Personal Merger: Work and Life
Power Tools for Women
by Joni Daniels
Today, our waking hours are filled to the brim with a wide variety of activities. Work outside the home and you deal with an organizational culture and the constraints and politics of the workplace.

What Holds Us Back
Power Tools for Women
by Joni Daniels
Patty had been employed with a local college for many years when a dean's position became available. As she reviewed the requirements, she recognized that her previous positions had provided her with the experiences needed to qualify for the job

The Toolbox
Power Tools for Women
by Joni Daniels
Do you panic when you discover that you've left the house without your purse? I do. It contains my wallet that holds cash and credit cards, my driver's license, and the required insurance information.

What Are Your Expectations?
Comeback Moms
by Monica Samuels, J. C. Conklin
In addition to analyzing why you're really quitting, think carefully about what your expectations are when you do quit. Make sure that you aren't expecting too much from the experience, because if you do and you're disappointed, your family will suffer.

Quitting
Comeback Moms
by Monica Samuels, J. C. Conklin
Maybe you just got the news that you're expecting or maybe you're a veteran mom with middle school-aged kids at home, it doesn't matter where you are on the mom continuum, at some point you'll be confronted with the burning question

Who Wants to Be Her Own Boss?
The 7 Greatest Truths About Successful Women
by Marion Luna Brem
Inspired by Marion Luna Brem's own amazing rags-to-riches story, this is a practical book for the modern woman at any stage of her career. While revealing how she transformed herself from a jobless young mother, deeply in debt after cancer treatments

pink and blue
Pitch Like a Girl: How a Woman Can Be Herself and Still Succeed
by Ronna Lichtenberg
In a way, the world would be easier if all women were the same and all men were the same. There would be those handy visual cues we could rely on to tell us everything; we could simply note a heavy beard and assume that everything coming up in chapter 3

My Story
Time Off for Good Behavior: How Hardworking Women Can Take a Break and Change Their Lives
by Mary Lou Quinlan
Sister, Sister, call on me! I can still hear my high-pitched first grade voice, shouting those first Type A good girl words to Sister Thomas Anice. It was the fall of 1959 in St. Helena's School in Philadelphia and I was already in a hurry to succeed.

You're on Your Way
The Working Mother's Guide to Life: Strategies, Secrets, and Solutions
by Linda Mason
Different Approaches to Working Motherhood. Petronila, my friend in rural western Kenya, sits in the shade under a small tree in a congested and lively marketplace in a small hillside village. It is hot and dry.

Work
Liz Lange's Maternity Style: How to Look Fabulous During the Most Fashion-Challenged Time
by Liz Lange
pregnancy style. To some this idea seems baffling, but to me it's always made perfect sense. Pregnant women are beautiful, and pregnancy is undoubtedly one of the happiest, sexiest, and most exciting times in a woman's life. In my mind, a pregnant woman

Managing Your Anxiety, What's a Girl to Do?
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
I can see by the looks on women's faces, and from their comments, that anxiety and confusion are part of the learning process. My 1989 audiotape, Women and Power: Understand Your Fear/Releasing Your Potential, and my book, Women, Anger & Depression

The Case of Susan
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
Let me give you an example of a woman with whom I worked who wondered why she wasn't reaching her full potential. Susan was a procurement manager for a Fortune 100 oil company. She'd been with this firm for more than twelve years when she expressed

Getting Started
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
From the outset I want you to know and, even more important, believe that the mistakes impeding you from reaching your career goals or potential don't happen because you're stupid or incompetent (although others might want to make you think so).

Chapter One
When Money Isn't Enough: How Women Are Finding the Soul of Success
by Barbara Steinberg Smalley, Connie Glaser
Quick! Define what success means to you. A prestigious job title? An impressive salary? A corner office with a view? Power and perks? Traditionally, these have been the yardsticks used to measure one's success.