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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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Regardless of your age, gender, industry, or company size, you will eventually need to exit from your business. How well you exit is largely dependent upon how well and early you plan. This book is meant to help prepare you and your firm for an exit based on your own terms.
Your business exit will likely be the biggest financial transaction of your life, and for the majority, you have one shot at doing it right. The tools and checklists in this...
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Inspiring women are all around us, and I invite you to take notice of their brilliance and the difference they make in our world. This group of contributing authors has demonstrated longevity in their commitment to excellence, moving through difficult challenges, and overcoming personal and professional obstacles. It's our hope that you enjoy their stories and are touched and moved in a way that you, too, choose to be inspiring to others.
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Shift Into Thrive provides six resilience-building strategies that women use successfully to thrive in the face of career challenges. These six powerful strategies, practical action steps, and inspiring stories from women around the world will enable you to create a career accompanied by growth, success, and satisfaction. Resilient women overcome obstacles and create the extraordinary careers they both desire and deserve. The ability to thrive in...
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Smart, talented, ambitious women still don't face a level playing field when it comes to reaching their full potential in the workplace.
Advice to My Younger Me: Career Lessons from 100 Successful Women is the guidebook you need to change that.
For over twenty years, award-winning career coach Sara Holtz has been helping women advance in their careers. Since creating her top-rated podcast, Advice to My Younger Me, she has interviewed more than 100...
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Don't Abdicate the Throne offers pragmatic and actionable advice for those trying to navigate the corporate world without a blueprint or basic guidance. Citing pivotal moments from her own journey, author Lisa Brooks-Greaux shares tips young women can use in both their careers and their lives. More importantly, she urges women of all ages to find the courage to take healthy risks, take control of their lives, and stop relinquishing power. • What...
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The Women in Transition (WIT) career group is an example of an adaptive leadership structure that is self-directed, collaborative and engaging. Whether an individual is actively looking for a job or not, the insights acquired from the journeys of the women who tell their stories will no doubt be thought provoking. Just as in the WIT group, it is hoped that readers will learn and benefit from the experience of others. In this way, the book further...
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Chris-Tia Donaldson knows what it means to beat the odds. Going from the inner city of Detroit to the Ivy League to founding a successful hair care company and facing brutal trials like breast cancer along the way, she embodies the strength so many women in America aspire to have - and knows how the challenges women face can create remarkable perspective, calm, and understanding.
In This is Only a Test, Chris-Tia reflects on her journey as a black...
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Originally published in 1998. A practical, positive and forward-thinking guide for women managers who want to capitalize on the new 'cooperative' ways of working in the organization of today - and the future. The 90s are proving a significant time of change in the world of management. Organizations are increasingly having to look at new ways of working, as the new management philosophies of success stress cooperation, teamwork, motivation and encouragement...
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Being a great female leader is harder than ever. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three million women left the U.S. workforce. Women face unique career challenges that include lacking confidence, playing small, working harder for less pay, and failing to strategize. Combined with social pressures, systemic issues, and family life, these hurdles are causing higher rates of burnout than ever before.
Reclaiming the Fire in Your Belly...
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From one of Time Magazine's "Forty Most Influential Minds in Technology" comes an essential collection of candid, first-hand accounts of women in technology.
Women in technology are on the rise in both power and numbers, and now it's more important than ever to not lose that momentum, to "lean in" and close the gender gap. Although they make up half of the population, only 14% of engineers in the United States are women. They take the seeds of technological...
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How would it feel to build a massively successful network marketing business from a place where you feel supported, energized, and connected to your feminine pleasure and power? If the business you've built has you feeling burned out, alone, and exhausted instead of successful and free, it can seem like that dream is no longer achievable. But it is. Dr. Erin Pollinger is proof of that.
At one point, Dr. Erin was broke and suffering. Today she is...
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Discover the leader you already are.
Leadership isn't just for CEOs. We need good leadership everywhere. In the workforce. In government. In our schools, communities, and homes. Today, the doors stand wide open for women to step into these roles, but modern female leadership doesn't look the same as the male roles of the past. The rules are different. The mindset is different.
Join Molly Gimmel, entrepreneur and former chairwoman of the National...
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Silicon Valley can be a wild ride for an entrepreneur, especially if you're a woman, a minority (or both!). But not being a white dude dropout from Stanford shouldn't stand between you and startup success-there's a path forward for everyone, including you.
In Mechanical Bull, Silicon Valley veteran Cheryl Contee takes readers through her entrepreneurial journey with humor and candor, sharing practical insights from her experience of launching three...
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Are you ready to transform your aspirations into a thriving business? In Unleash Your Inner CEO, you'll embark on a pivotal journey that will help pave the way toward business independence. With this book as your guide, you will be able to:
● Uncover the "why" that propels you forward
● Align your personal goals with your business vision
● Formulate a comprehensive plan to lead you toward your goals
● Make accountability your ally
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Find out how to turn the vision of a successful business into reality-with just the right attitude, approach and skills.
You Go Girl has tricks and tips for starting a business from nothing, building it up, and selling it for a multimillion-dollar profit. Tactics are relevant to the corporate world as well. The stories are entertaining and the guidance is easy to implement.
19) Facing the Seduction of Success: Inspiring Stories On Leading In Business While Living Your Life
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Business leaders are constantly faced with the dilemma of how to embrace the work they love while keeping it from eclipsing the other parts of their lives. It is easy to get sucked into feeding work's endless hunger. Work is infinite. Work is unforgiving. It is also exciting and joyful. And that's what makes it so seductive. The challenge is to give ourselves fully to our work, which is necessary for success, without getting drained by work's immense...
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Karen Finerman likes to tell people she was raised Calvinist. Or as her mother used to say, "I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes... Then when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves." In order to keep herself in Calvin, Karen went to work on Wall Street.
As a woman working in finance she noticed numerous ways that she and her female colleagues sabotaged themselves both professionally and personally. Why...
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