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Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just 4 percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. In every industry, from private equity investing to network television, women are underrepresented in leadership and paid less than men for the same work. That's where The Influence Effect comes in. Based on recent research by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Break Your...
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Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Right this minute, you are the proud owner of a library full of content. And congratulations, it's all about you! Cute, rambunctious, smart, or downright unflattering photos, videos, phrases, behaviors, what and who you like and love, where you've been, and what elicits your frown or thumbs down. You and your reactors have been building your life-brand since the birth of your life online. With trolls, cancel culture, reputational damage, and career...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2015]
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English
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This book, based on interviews with the world's most inspiring women, " shows every woman how she can empower herself and her community" (Madeleine Albright). Important conversations about leaning in, work/life balance, and empowering females around the world have energized a generation of women. Fast Forward , by two leaders whose experience spans corporate America, public service, and global diplomacy, takes the next step. Through interviews with...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Straight talk and mild rants from one of beauty's biggest success stories Called the "Queen of Beauty" and the most influential lone woman to impact the beauty industry since Estée Lauder by the New York Times Leslie Blodgett's story is anything but ordinary. As the CEO of BareMinerals, she reinvented how beauty was sold by tapping into the power of community before the idea of social media existed. In 2006, Blodgett took the company public in one...
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HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Girl gangs reigning terror at Facebook, narcissistic overlords at Google ... this is the backdrop of Lean Out , which takes readers on the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to find success in her fifteen-year career at the world's top tech giants. Orr delivers an ambitious attempt to answer the critical question: What have we gotten wrong about women at work? "This book is a must-read for insights on the impact that reversing systemic...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Joan Kuhl helps women create a clear vision of what their career path deserves to be and make a convincing business case for equality to their managers and senior leadership. You'll learn strategies for overcoming sexist cultural attitudes about gender and leadership, as well as for dealing with self-limiting behaviors like Imposter's Syndrome (the feeling that you're never good enough despite a track record of success) and the Myth of Meritocracy...
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Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Your Turn is the career coach that today's working women need to own their career ambition + motherhood path. There are more than fifteen million employed women with children under the age of eighteen in the United States who find themselves smack in the "Messy Middle," where job opportunity and family responsibilities collide and decisions shift into high gear. And there are also millions of women on the sidelines, many there due to impossible...
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Barlow Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In corporate Canada you see this scenario play out all the time: Highly qualified and ambitious women enter the workforce all charged up and ready to change the world, only to be disappointed as they watch male colleagues pass them on the climb up the corporate ladder. Then the women drop out. It's no surprise, then, that women today occupy only 10% of the highest-paying jobs in corporate Canada. That's not a very impressive statistic after all the...
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Too many leaders, men and women alike, have bought into a notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally 'masculine' qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression, and a host of other serious problems. But there is another way, one that restores balance to this lopsided way of leading. Reaching into ancient spiritual and mythical...
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Total Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The single factor that determines success or failure on the public stage, in private interactions and in business today is the conversation. Great leaders are great communicators. They are consistent in their public and private conversations. Experienced corporate business leader and change consultant, Rose Fass, confidently asserts that leadership is a conversation. In her new book, “The Leadership Conversation”, Fass shows her readers how to...
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HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Details an achievable, step-by-step path to become a millionaire within the next three years. Whatever is currently stopping you from having seven figures in the bank--whether it is doubt, feeling overwhelmed, imposter syndrome, trying too many things, or simply not knowing where to begin--this book advises ways to clear your obstacles. Rodgers--mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made Black millionaire--shares the lessons she's learned...
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David R. Godine, Publisher / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"One woman's humorous memoir about leaving the corporate world behind for life on a northern England farm with her whole family. Ever dream of reinventing yourself and starting over? Sally Urwin did. Even though her feet don't quite reach the tractor pedals, this city-girl-turned-shepherd found happiness and love with one husband, two kids, grumpy rams, ewes and lambs, Mavis the Sheepdog, and a very fat pony. Once employed to market the insolvency...
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Make a plan now and manifest a rewarding and abundant retirement: "A book that countless women are waiting for." -- Marianne Williamson Coach and personal finance professional Debra K. Menke spent years watching powerful women not properly plan for retirement. To help this strong tribe of women take ownership of their financial freedom, she offers this love letter as a route to retirement success. In Powerful Women Plan for Retirement , Debra helps...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Dishy, witty and a ton of fun . . [a] document of everyday life and work in 20th century America from a perspective that is all too rarely seen( Chicago Tribune ). In her memoir, Big Bosses, Althea Altemus vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent-but thinly disguised-employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her, we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience...
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