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Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century
The article "Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century" by Stephen Reed discusses a report about the Future of Jobs, focusing on the skills that will be in demand and those that will decline by the year 2022. The trending skills include analytical thinking, innovation, active learning strategies, creativity, reasoning, and complex problem-solving. The article is divided into six parts:
Part One: "Acquiring Knowledge" - This section covers cognitive processes critical for effective learning.
Part Two: "Organizing Knowledge" - It explains different methods, such as matrices, networks, and hierarchies, for visualizing the organization of knowledge.
Part Three: "Reasoning" - This section discusses visuospatial reasoning, reasoning from imperfect knowledge, and reasoning strategies.
Part Four: "Problem Solving" - It focuses on the knowledge and strategies required for solving various types of problems, including those involving design and dynamic changes.
Part Five: "Artificial Intelligence" - This part delves into topics like Data Sciences, Explanatory Models, Information Sciences, and General AI.
Part Six: "Education" - Consisting of three chapters, this section emphasizes educating 21st-century skills at all levels of instruction. The foundation for acquiring these skills is derived from research in Cognitive Psychology, Education, and AI.
In summary, the article covers the essential cognitive skills needed for success in the 21st century job market and how education and artificial intelligence play a role in nurturing these skills.
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Get Career Fit
Due to the advancement of technology, many careers and even industries will soon be obsolete. What can workers do to secure a career that will not meet this same fate? That is the question that Get Career Fit by Michelle Gibbings answers for readers. This book highlights the choices that readers can make to liberate their career. Get Career Fit introduces the reader to the 4-phase career reinvention cycle, and the 12 key steps needed to follow to successfully leap from one career to another. The goal of this book is to urge the reader to prepare their career for the inevitable.
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Targeting a Great Career
“Targeting a Great Career” is filled with strategies that can help you develop your career targets, become an industry insider, discover new opportunities that you never thought of before, and plan and organize your entire campaign to make it happen. Exercises throughout the book allow readers to picture what they want their life to be like in the future and what they can do today to make their dreams come true. This book is useful for those looking for tips that can help them identify and achieve their career goals.
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The Magic of Thinking by David Schwartz
“The Magic of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz is a self-help book that aims to inspire readers to think positively, set high goals, and overcome their limiting beliefs. The book emphasizes the power of positive thinking, teaches techniques for developing a success mindset, and provides strategies for achieving success in all areas of life, including personal and professional relationships, finance, and health. The author argues that thinking big is a key factor in achieving success, and encourages readers to develop confidence, take action, and persist in the face of challenges.
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Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability
The sustainability approach is gaining recognition from large corporations as they begin to acknowledge their environmental impacts. Executives also understand that sustainability can lead to new opportunities for competitive advantage by reducing costs, minimizing risk, appealing to conscientious customers, and reaching new markets. As a result, there are new career paths opening up for MBAs interested in sustainability. These include sustainable venture capital, green marketing, sustainability consulting and more. However, these career paths can be diverse and challenging to navigate. The goal of the book "Profession and Purpose" is to provide job search resources and tips to help MBAs interested in sustainability careers.
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Green Careers: Choosing Work For A Sustainable Future
Sustainability has become a very important topic in the last few years as we continue to fight global warming and other environmental issues. As industries move towards more environment friendly practices it is important to know what your career would look like in this new sustainable world. And if it would even exist. This unique book on career advice, which is based on labour market research, discusses green careers in practically every field of interest.
You can explore potential green career paths with the assistance of the writers' significant experience in career and workforce development. Describe options for green careers, for example: How much can I expect to make? Which education do I require? How popular is this line of work? How do I transition to a green profession?
Clear and straightforward information about the newly expanding sector of green and environmental jobs is provided by Green Careers. Chapters consist of: An overview of green jobs per industry 90 distinct occupation profiles divided into 12 different career groups more than 65 case studies and interviews with individuals with green job roles Iand much more. So If you are looking for a resource to locating a career that you will be enthusiastic about and succeeding while doing what you love, this is the perfect book for you.
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I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was
If you’re like many university students, you may not know exactly which path you’d like to take after university. This book by Barbara Sher aims to help people choose a career path that not only suits their strengths, but one that they will be happy with in the long run. Sher encourages readers to follow their heart’s desires and insists that this is the key to happiness in one’s career, and in life. The book is broken down into 14 chapters, each of which describes one step readers can take in order to find their calling. The book highlights the fact that there are more options out there than we may think, and that the life of our dreams is not out of reach.
“Through a series of exercises, guidance and real-life examples, Sher walks you through a process of working through any emotional obstacles preventing you from figuring out what ‘it’ is, while conducting an in-depth soul search to uncover your unique, ideal career possibilities.”
-Anne Baker, Certified Life and Career Coach
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How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
In a world which focuses a bit too much on the phrase “Jack of all, King of none” we often feel the pressure to choose a single passion/career for life. Through this book, Emilie Wapnick provides us with a new perspective and helps take this pressure off of our shoulders. In this book, Wapnick talks about being a multipotentialite: someone with many interests and creative pursuits. And how to use this attribute as your biggest strength to succeed professionally. Wapnick offers a useful framework for creating a sustainable existence around all of your hobbies rather than advising you to specialize, pick a niche, or amass 10,000 hours of expertise in a particular field.
In this masterpiece, Wapnick explores many topics including; How to make a living and structure your work if you have many skills and interests. How to focus on multiple projects and make progress on all of them. And how to handle common insecurities such as the fear of not being the best. So if you too often feel lost, or unsure about which hobbies to pursue and which to toss in the ocean, this is the perfect book for you.
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We are all unique, so why does there only seem to be one path towards success? How to Be Everything throws out this one-size-fits-all approach and explains how to make our diverse skill sets work for us. When we embrace our varied interests and personalities, we let our true talents emerge, and ironically, achieve far more than we would by sticking to the traditional route -- Todd Rose, Harvard University scientist, cofounder and president of the Center for individual Opportunity, and author of The End of Average |
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Getting to Like: How to Boost Your Personal and Professional Brand to Expand Opportunities, Grow Your Business, and Achieve Financial Success
In the last decade alone, the face and nature of the job market has evolved dramatically. It's now a given that personal branding will have a significant impact on your professional opportunities. It's not an exaggeration that your brand and reputation could make--or break--your career. In order to connect with new employers and clients and transform your potential into success, you need to establish your unique digital identity, build strong relationships with your audience(s), and gain visibility for all the right reasons.
Getting to Like is a practical, actionable guide to anticipating and staying one step ahead of the curve--and your competition. Each chapter provides specific examples for effective communication and engagement, including Strategies for both in-person and digital channels. Interviews, case studies, and advice from branding and marketing experts. Specific guidelines for successfully navigating the most essential platforms. It's a crowded, competitive marketplace out there. Getting to Like will help you stand out, make your voice heard, and take those crucial steps toward future-proofing your career.
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Super Secrets of the Successful Jobseeker: Everything You Need to Know About Finding a Job in Difficult Times
With high unemployment and job seekers fighting for fewer and fewer jobs, it's never been more important to get an edge when looking for that next career move. The right experience and qualifications, a good CV and a nicely worded covering letter are no longer enough - they are the bare minimum!
In this book, Simon Gray explains how to get ahead, what to do and - just as crucially - what not to do in order to win in the highly competitive job race. He also explores the psychology of looking for a job and divulges his revolutionary techniques to get noticed and employed in a crowded market.
If you are looking for a job or planning to change career this is the book you can't afford not to read!
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Success Strategies From Women In Stem: A Portable Mentor
Success Strategies from Women in Stem: A Portable Mentor, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and accessible manual containing career advice, mentoring support, and professional development strategies for female scientists in the STEM fields. This updated text contains new and essential chapters on leadership and negotiation, important coverage of career management, networking, social media, communication skills, and more. The work is accompanied by a companion website that contains annotated links, a list of print and electronic resources, self-directed learning objects, frequently asked questions, and more.
With an increased focus on international relevance, this comprehensive text contains shared stories and vignettes that will help women pursuing or involved in STEM careers develop the necessary professional and personal skills to overcome obstacles to advancement. Preserves the style and tone of the first edition by bringing together mentors, trainees and early-career professionals in a series of conversations about important topics related to careers in STEM fields, such as leadership, time stress, negotiation, networking, social media and more Identifies strategies that can improve career success along with stories that elucidate, engage, and inspire Companion website provides authoritative information from successful women engaged in STEM careers, including annotated links to key organizations, associations, granting agencies, teaching support materials, and more
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This is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want
"Why didn't you hire the last ten people you interviewed and passed on?" Leading career expert and syndicated columnist Andrea Kay asked numerous employers that single, simple question because of what she felt seemed a glaring disconnect in the business world--millions of educated, qualified people either out of work or unhappily employed, despite an increasing number of companies with job openings they can't seem to fill. How could that be? This Is How to Get Your Next Job is the story of her quest for answers and, more importantly, the surprising conclusions she was led to by these employers frustrated with not being able to fill these positions.
The overwhelmingly common answers she received time after time were not about skills or experience but about how applicants behaved and spoke during the interview. From lack of preparation to pushiness to a subtly defensive attitude, these simple behaviours that prospective employees exhibited before, during, and after interviews ended up nullifying their otherwise-qualified résumé. Now, in this well-researched book based on candid insights from real-life employers, job hunters can learn how to take control of how they come across to the people in charge of giving them the exciting, rewarding opportunities they are seeking. Show them why you're the perfect fit for their job!
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How to Build a Nontraditional Career Path: Embracing Economic Disruption
The paradigm of a successful career has shifted. No longer is working for a single company or even within a single career field throughout one's lifetime the norm. Today, many people are considering nontraditional paths to achieving success. How to Build a Nontraditional Career Path: Embracing Economic Disruption explains what such a career path looks like and details the benefits and challenges of pursuing this option.
Author Ron Elsdon identifies the types of individuals who will likely find nontraditional careers attractive and examines critical strategic issues, thereby enabling the reader to assess whether and how such a path might fit their personality, life goals, and career objectives. The information presented will benefit those considering "something different" at their entry to the workforce, individuals in middle or later career stages re-assessing their direction, people re-engaging with a career at an encore stage, or those whose previous career paths have been disrupted by an external event such as job loss.
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Packaging Yourself: The Targeted Resume
Does your résumé correspond to your LinkedIn profile? Have you simply recounted your work history in your résumé, or have you "packaged" yourself to be seen the way you want to be seen? PACKAGING YOURSELF is the only book on the market that uses case studies to teach you the nuances of résumé preparation, as well as how to combine it with your LinkedIn profile.
The average résumé is looked at for only ten seconds. Make yours stand out. Learn how to highlight your strengths and hide your weaknesses. Prepare a marketing piece that dynamically presents you just the way you want prospective employers to see you. Learn how to present yourself effectively on LinkedIn and other media. You'll learn to create an exciting résumé that will make the reader want to call you in for a meeting, and will guide the interviewing process and bring out the best points about yourself, develop the accomplishment statements that form the backbone of your résumé, and write a summary that increases your chance of getting just the job you want.
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Success 365: 365 Great Ideas for Personal Development and Achieving Great Success
How can I increase my effectiveness at work? How can I enhance my productivity? How can I improve my time management? How can I make better decisions? How can I become better at networking? How can I boost my memory? How can I become a better negotiator? How can I learn great interview skills? You’ll find answers to all these questions and many more in Success 365.
Success 365 contains an idea a day, one for each day of the year, that will give you all the tools and strategies you need to become more effective and successful. You will find lots of useful advice from email to networking, from decision making to networking, from confidence to negotiating, from productivity to business etiquette, and much more. All the tips in Success 365 are explained clearly with practical examples and advice you can apply immediately to help with your own work and career.
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When Talent Isn’t Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined
Many creative professionals focus too much on their artistic abilities and too little on their business interests. In When Talent Isn't Enough, copywriter and journalist Kristen Fischer offers powerful strategies and practical stories from some of today's most prominent creative leaders to help you thrive. The result: an easy-to-read guide that covers all aspects of launching and managing a successful business for any creative entrepreneur or solo practitioner.
When Talent Isn't Enough offers savvy and easy-to-apply business advice for writers, designers, and artists who want to: run a profitable, fulfilling business; market themselves alongside seasoned pros, in-house talent and established agencies; understand the legalities of doing business; spearhead hassle-free accounting and bookkeeping practices; overcome challenging situations with clients; embrace self-promotion as a solo professional; cultivate lasting client partnerships.
If you're creative and want to build a business around your talents, then you have to read Kristen's new book. It provides a clear path for taking your talent and turning it into a full-time career
- Dan Schwabel, author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success
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If Not Now, When?: How to Take Charge of Your Career
The world of work is changing dramatically. Jobs for life have long been a thing of the past and even as people move up the corporate ladder, they are questioning their choices and keen to consider new possibilities such as work/life balance and portfolio working. Those of us keen to change careers often don't know where to start so it remains a pipe dream rather than a reality we can work towards.
In this action-oriented and pragmatic book, expert career coaches Jane Barrett and Camilla Arnold address the common barriers to career change that they frequently encounter in their work, and give readers a proven roadmap to achieve their new job goals. If Not Now, When? includes first-hand experiences of a successful career change but also quizzes, exercises and self-assessment tools to help readers make the best choice for them.
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The Social Entrepreneur Revolution: Doing Good by Making Money, Making Money by Doing Good
Change the world around you. Make some money. It's an appealing prospect for many people in this age of social conscience. For all the good that government, business, religion and other institutions do, there are many problems that fall between the cracks- health, environment, human rights, poverty, etc... and that's where social entrepreneurs come in.
Social entrepreneurship has the potential to transform corporate practice and make a major contribution towards solving the world's ills and problems. This book describes how virtually anyone can become a social entrepreneur, whether you want to create change in your local community or the entire planet. There are already well-known role models - Jamie Oliver, Muhammad Yunus, Bill Gates - of who this book profiles. Such social entrepreneurs are already rewriting the recipe book, mixing social impact and profit. But as this book shows, you don't have to be a millionaire to make a difference.
Clear, concise, full of useful information, delivering a message that is absorbing and inspiring with examples and case studies from pioneers who have mapped the way forward. If you are interested in social enterprise, and are considering becoming involved, I cannot recommended this book highly enough. – Jane Arnold, aspiring social entrepreneur
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From Passion to Execution: How to Start and Grow an Effective Nonprofit Organization
Transform your vision and passion as you learn how to effectively start, grow, and lead a nonprofit organization with this practical, inspiring guide. FROM PASSION TO EXECUTION: HOW TO START AND GROW AN EFFECTIVE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION combines meaningful, real examples and insights, based on the author's extensive experience, with a high-energy, powerful presentation that equips you with the confidence to follow your dream of starting a nonprofit organization.
This reader-friendly book provides specific how-to steps to start a nonprofit organization with a focus on long-term sustainability. The author shows you how to set the groundwork, from exploring your personal passion and effectively articulating a mission statement to building a solid board. You also learn how to communicate vision, design programs, ignite volunteers, assemble the right business team, craft a strategic plan, seek supporters, and navigate differing personalities as the organization grows. Finally, you learn to assess results and adjust plans to effectively manage and continue to lead a successful organization.
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More Time for You: A Powerful System to Organize Your Work and Get Things Done
In this step-by-step guide, authors Rosemary Tator and Alesia Latson unpack the things that lead people to feel burnt out and unfulfilled in their lives and careers and offer a solution to getting more of the thing they really want--time for themselves! Employing a healthy mix of upbeat encouragements and get-to-it messages, they offer a proven, practical approach for prioritizing, achieving goals, reducing stress, and increasing your capacity to do what matters most.
More Time for you has given me a much needed breath of fresh air. As a manager, I knew how to organize at work but was not every effective at balancing my dayto-day life. The techniques and systems the authors share in this book have helped me see that I have the power to get it all done as well as have the time to enjoy life! And these tools are very easy to implement. I wish i could have read it sooner!
- Marla Dillard-Lemons, Quality Systems Manager, Ford Motor Company
Especially during an era in which time is a valued and sometimes rare resource, this book explains how to take advantage of today's most versatile and effective productivity enhancers--mobile devices, online tools, and calendar software--to get things done with ease and efficiency. Complete with helpful illustrations and the authors' actionable tips, More Time for You teaches readers how to get organized and make life happen--so they have more time to live it!
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The Panic Free Job Search: Unleash the Power of the Web and Social Networking to Get Hired
Inundated by online applications and hampered by computer systems that are unable to select viable candidates from the masses of applicants, employers are now using innovative strategies to recruit and screen candidates online. Advances in technology make the way jobs are found and filled online distinctly different from just a few years ago. Employers are scanning the Web using advanced tools to capture signals from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, among others, to recruit candidates.
Paul Hill's The Panic Free Job Search is a savvy resource for anyone looking to get a job, keep the job they have, restart their career, or prepare for the corporate restructuring. It'll fire you up to get the job and income you need.
- Rick Frishman, author of Geurilla Marketing for writers and Where's Your Wow
Based on leading Internet strategies, The Panic Free Job Search shows you how to get hired: By developing a professional, Web-savvy profile, by leveraging the power of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, VisualCV, YouTube, TubeMogul, and even your own Website, by sending the right signals through social networking sites, by tapping into the hidden job market. Don't panic! You can get the job you want, even in this tough economy.
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Well Said! Presentations and Conversations That Get Results
Whether you're making a formal presentation, wooing a client, closing a sale, or proposing an idea, persuasive communication is essential. Based on the same concepts that guide the author's award-winning training and consulting company, Well Said! teaches readers to put themselves in their audience's shoes and tailor their messages to the needs of decision-makers. Darlene Price reveals the simple but powerful techniques you can use to prioritize, organize, and economize your words so that your communication wins the day.
"...must have book for virtually anyone in the workforce...by following the advice given, you will definitely become a more effective communicator, which can only help your career
- IEEE Electrical Insulation
Complete with real-life examples illustrating the concepts in action, this handy guide shows how to use the words and phrases that get people to listen, capture and hold an audience's attention, gain instant credibility with decision makers, optimize body language, handle QA with finesse, make connections, shine with or without PowerPoint, perfect the elevator pitch, and much more. By placing words carefully and with confidence, you'll captivate your audience and make big things happen in your career.
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Be the Captain of Your Career: A New Approach to Career Planning and Advancement
Drawing from his own experience with corporations both large and small and as a business owner, Jack Molisani has seen every mistake the professional (or not-so-professional) can make in today's highly competitive job market. This book provides the tools for navigating these choppy waters. Starting with how to escape a dead-end job or an overbearing boss, to advancing one's career, and finally to achieving a higher standard of living, the book is divided into sections on finding new directions, making things happen, and optimizing the results.
Whether you are a new graduate or career changer, Jack's challenge to be the captain of your career will motivate you. Read the book, follow his tips, and you'll have the career of your dream.
-Victoria Koster-Lenhardt, Global Employment Advisor, U.S. Department of State
While most business guides focus on either job hunting for the unemployed or getting rich for business owners and CEOs, these solutions—including how to get and ace an interview and how to increase job security once hired—cater to real people wanting real advice on how to escape the chains of a recessive economy and create a long-term lifestyle that is both enjoyable and achievable.
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Work Your Strengths: A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match Them to the Best Career for You
Your brain is hardwired with a unique combination of 12 different Executive Skills—the cognitive strengths that determine how well you will perform in a particular role. Your strongest and weakest Executive Skills can make the difference between big-time career success and years of disappointment and failure. Work Your Strengths helps you avoid “trial-and-error” career moves by matching your strengths to the jobs that call on those skills specifically. Based on the authors’ two-year study of more than 2000 top-performers at hundreds of organizations, the book reveals which strengths correlate with success in different jobs.
Not ready for a move yet? Work Your Strengths can also make a world of difference in the job you’re in now. It can help you not only focus on the projects best suited for you but also recognize skills in others and assign tasks accordingly. So, whether you’re planning a jump to the career of your dreams or just wondering how to make your current job easier and more rewarding, Work Your Strengths gives you the science and the system to find your success.
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Build Your Reputation: Grow Your Personal Brand for Career and Business Success
Your reputation is what people say about you when you're not there. It's your most powerful asset for business growth, career enhancement and freedom of choice in many aspects of life. Yet too many people leave it to chance. They are a well-kept secret - it's not enough to be the best, you have to be seen to be the best. Build Your Reputation will show how to identify your brand and where it fits into the big picture, and then you'll learn how to become the obvious choice for whatever it is you do.
Learn how to build credibility, connect with the right people and make your achievements known. Attract the right relationships and the right attention. The highest-paid people in any company, industry or profession are not necessarily the most qualified, gifted or best. They're the most popular. They are liked, trusted, recommended, chosen, hired and introduced. Build Your Reputation gives you the inside track to the top, with practical wisdom and strategic advice for building your own brand.
Over 100 practical strategies to get your name out there. Just do 10% of what Rob Brown tells, and in a year's time your life, reputation and positioning will be completely transformed."
-Daniel Barnett, Barrister, Broadcaster and Keynote Speaker
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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire
Whether you're trying to communicate a vision, sell an idea, or inspire commitment, storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between lackluster enthusiasm and a rallying cry. Addressing a wide variety of business challenges, including specific stories to help you overcome twenty-one difficult situations, Lead with a Story gives you the ability to engage an audience the way logic and bullet points alone never could.
This how-to guidebook shows readers how powerful stories can help define culture and values, engender creativity and innovation, foster collaboration, build relationships, provide coaching and feedback, and lead change. Whether in a speech or a memo, communicated to one person or a thousand, storytelling is an essential skill for today's leaders. Complete with examples from many high-profile companies, Lead with a Story gives readers the guidance they need to spin a narrative to stunning effect.
Led with a Story is now my go-to source for stories that inspire change across a broad range of business challenages. This is a must-read book for any leader who wants to up their game by leading through inspiration.
-Andy Murray, Founder of Saatchi & Saatchi-X and Mercury11
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Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girl’s Guide to Corporate Domination
Packed with insights from extraordinary women who have climbed the corporate ladder--including former McDonald's president Jan Fields, JetBlue cofounder Ann Rhoades, and fashion pioneer Liz Lange--Who Says It's a Man's World reveals the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of the five reputation-enhancing business areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership.
What I life most about bennington's book is the focus on self first... Business is a game about people - life everything else in life - it all starts with you.
-Washington Post
Complete with an eye-opening "promotability" assessment, an ideal "success profile," and the latest research on women in the workplace, Emily Bennington's book provides readers with everything they need to achieve their professional goals. For the first time in North American history, women form the majority of the workforce, filling more managerial positions than their male counterparts. The Atlantic has called it the "end of men." While this may be an overstatement, one thing is certain: today's women are primed to take over the corporate world--and Who Says It's a Man's World is just the resource they need to ensure they don't stumble on the way up.
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What’s Your Type of Career? Find Your Perfect Career by Using Your Personality Type
This is the most thorough explanation of personality types you will find. Dunning provides useful terminology to express MBTI typology, offers clarifying quotes and checklists, and suggests tips for action appropriate for each type. Extremely useful for ongoing career management.
-Peggy Simonsen, managing vice president, Talent Management, Right Management Consultants and author of Career Compass
The simple truth is that to be happy and successful in your work, you need a career that not only matches your interests but fits your personality type as well. In this approachable book, author Donna Dunning uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) to introduce eight distinct ways of working.
Encouraging you to reflect on your own natural preferences - using checklists, exercises, strategies and tips - What's Your Type of Career? provides all the tools you need to discover your own natural preferences and find your ideal career. Are you a Contributor, Expeditor, Explorer or Responder? An Analyzer, Assimilator, Enhancer or Visionary? An Extravert or an Introvert? If you identify yourself as an Extravert and a Responder, you tend to like action, scenarios that are rapidly changing and are not inclined toward a desk job. A profession as an emergency worker, a firefighter or a police officer may be for you.
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Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy
Own Your Future is a career and success book that...is adapted to today's realities...packed with advice and keen insight for those looking for their next job...which should be everybody.
-Soundview Executive Book Summaries Blog
Not everyone has the means and resources to become a successful entrepreneur. So does that mean everyone else must hinge their success on the hopes that they survive the next set of layoffs and that their chosen field doesn't become the next dying industry? Not at all! The successful methods that the leading entrepreneurs used to find their niche in today's marketplace can be applied by all in their pursuit of a long-lasting, rewarding career. Own Your Future shows how to take the same small steps forward they use – Act. Learn. Build. Repeat. – to reinvent the way you maneuver in an unpredictable job market.
Too often, people picture their perfect career and then think through all the steps backward in order to plan out their path to career success. But today there is very little assurance that your chosen job--perhaps even the industry itself--will even be there by the time you maneuver through the long path of continuing education and promotions. Don't rest your success on the mercy of an ever-changing marketplace. Learn to take control! Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future gives you the tools you need to succeed--no matter what comes your way.
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Time Management
It's a simple equation--the better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater you will succeed. But the rollout of this basic theory isn't so simple, is it? In Time Management, business author and success expert Brian Tracy says it is! In this indispensable, pocket-sized guide, Tracy reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Two or more! Every day!!
The advice is simple and easy to follow... an effective and concise guide that outstandingly performs its purpose.
-San Francisco Book Review
By learning the strategies that Tracy himself has identified as the most effective and employed personally, readers having trouble fitting everything the day brings them inside a 24-hour window will learn how to: Handle endless interruptions, meetings, emails, and phone calls, Identify your key result areas, Allocate enough time for top priority responsibilities, Batch similar tasks to preserve focus and make the most of each minute, Overcome procrastination, Determine what to delegate and what to eliminate, Utilize Program Evaluation and Review Techniques to work backward from the future . . . and ensure your most important goals are met, and more. Filled with Brian Tracy's trademark wisdom, this invaluable, time-creating resource will help you get more done, in less time . . . and with much less stress.
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