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An inspirational compilation of stories from successful Japanese professional women
In Winding Paths to Success: Chart a Career in Uncertain Times, experienced management consultant Nobuko Kobayashi delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of the professional and personal successes of senior Japanese women executives, academics, and entrepreneurs who started their career in the late '80s to '90s, the dawn of gender equity at work in Japan....
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"Follow in the footsteps of amazing women who have the jobs of your dreams! This extensive and empowering career guide leads the way to a fulfilling professional life. Newly updated with seven additional cutting-edge careers! Go beyond the job description and get the scoop on what it's really like to work as a senator, a marine biologist, an actress, and much, much more. This exciting guide gives the behind-the-scenes scoop on a wide variety of careers...
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"A game-changing guide for women who want to transform the way they work and create their own success-from an award-winning global diversity expert. In today's world, it takes more than ambition to succeed. It takes intention. But intention without clarity, deliberate words, and calculated actions is meaningless. According to Michelle Gadsden-Williams, a global expert in diversity, workplace culture, and career building, intention is more than just...
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Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry
Auditors, accountants, lawyers, consultants, and other highly educated and trained professionals frequently hold impressive credentials and offer clients specialized expertise in complex areas. At the same time, these professionals understandably focus on the analytical and technical components of their jobs, sometimes to the point of excluding or ignoring important soft skills critical to the success...
6) How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services
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The real-world guide to selling your services and bringing in business
How Clients Buy is the much-needed guide to selling your services. If you're one of the millions of people whose skills are the 'product,' you know that you cannot be successful unless you bring in clients. The problem is, you're trained to do your job-not sell it. No matter how great you may be at your actual role, you likely feel a bit lost, hesitant, or 'behind' when it comes...
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College does not teach you how to be successful in the working world. There is no course or textbook that explains how to create the fulfilling careers many aspire to. The Millennial generation is 80 million members strong and each year more than 1.5 million enter the working world with little to no idea of how to succeed. While companies spend millions of dollars scrambling to learn more about Millennials and adapt their work cultures to fit this...
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If the family car breaks down, most kids know that the car will end up with a mechanic. Many times, the car comes back as good as new. What did the mechanic do? It might seem like magic, but it's really skill and education. This book explains how mechanics can detect problems with our vehicles using modern technology and know-how and how they may solve the problems with hard work and skill. Photographs of mechanics on the job will allow a variety...
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"POWER MOVES, a career guide for women stuck in unfulfilling jobs developed from the lessons on the Career Contessa website, featuring inspirational stories from impressive women in a variety of fields, exercises in how to make big life changes, and a discussion of how to find a meaningful career, from Career Contessa founder Lauren McGoodwin"-- Provided by publisher.
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This groundbreaking study reveals the vital perspective women bring to business, and how to make sure your organization takes full advantage of it.
Women and men experience the world differently. They not only see things differently, they also see different things. Men tend to have a bottom line, linear way of thinking. Women are more empathetic, more aware of the critical impact of interpersonal factors both within and without the organization. Everyone...
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What's your story?
The most successful brands aren't created, they are unearthed. Successful branding is based on authenticity. So how do you reveal your own brand? First, by searching yourself for answers to questions like these: What do you do better than anyone? What are you most proud of? What makes you lose track of time?
In Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age, branding authority William Arruda describes the 21st century...
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"Read this book to help bring to life your vision of a future in tech. With practical advice and inspiring stories, you'll develop the right tools and the right mindset. Whether you're just considering going into tech or you want to take your current career to the next level, Women of Color in Tech will show you how to uncover the resources you need to succeed."-- Provided by publisher.
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Women's Murder Club volume 2
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When an 11-year-old girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, hard-as-nails Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer calls a meeting of the Women's Murder Club. Together with ambitious assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, savvy medical examiner Claire Washburn, and Cindy Thomas, a bright young reporter for the Chronicle, Boxer tracks the mystifying killer to a local hate group. But this murder is no one-shot accident. Lindsay's gut tells her it's linked to...
14) In the company of women: inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
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"Across the globe, women are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit and starting creative businesses. In the Company of Women profiles over 100 of these influential and creative women from all ages, races, backgrounds, and industries"--Amazon.com.
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The bestselling author of "Big Girl Panties" is back with a funny, sweet, and sizzling novel about the game of love, in which a hot quarterback must figure out how to score big with a beautiful and talented media analyst after a heartbreaking fumble. Star quarterback and heartthrob Tyson Palmer has made a name for himself with his spectacular moves - except sports commentator Dani Carr, whose negative comments about his performance draw high ratings...
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Helps professional women experiencing feelings of disempowerment and dissatisfaction regain the confidence, courage, and energy to take control of their lives
Identifies 12 crises professional women face today and offers specific advice and tools for overcoming them
Draws on interviews with over one hundred women, offering inspiring stories and practical advice for addressing and resolving disempowerment
Thousands of professional women, though...
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In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything-while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living?
Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society. This is the first scholarly yet accessible exploration of...
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Covering three major topics--career, money, and love--the hedge fund CEO and CNBC regular serves up advice about getting ahead in a career, overcoming failure, meeting an ideal mate, and navigating the challenges of work-life balance, and outlines a crash course in taking control of financial destiny.




