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Stiletto Network

Author : Pamela Ryckman
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814432549

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Stiletto Network by Pamela Ryckman Pdf

During the past few years, professional women's groups have been coalescing in every major American city, collaborating to achieve clout and success--calling themselves “Power Bitches,” “Brazen Hussies,” and “S.L.U.T.S.: Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress.” This new girls’ network is alive and set to hyperdrive! Stiletto Network is the first book to highlight this groundbreaking movement of these trailblazing women. However, these pages are not only about celebrating these extraordinary women--from captains of industry to aspiring entrepreneurs--who have come together to celebrate, unwind, debate, and compare notes. They’re also about what happens when these women leave the table--how they mine their collective intelligence to realize their dreams or champion a cause, how they lift up their friends and push them forward, how they join forces to ensure each woman gets whatever it is she needs to accomplish her goals. Sharing story after story of extraordinary women banding together to help other extraordinary women, Stiletto Network is both a celebration and a call to action to a better way of doing business.

Been There, Run That

Author : Kay Koplovitz
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780795344251

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Been There, Run That by Kay Koplovitz Pdf

“Offers savvy wisdom and actionable advice from the trenches by entrepreneurs who have lived it all. Great read and inspirational as well.”—Heidi Roizen, venture capitalist, Stanford University lecturer “This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.”—Kay Koplovitz Been There, Run That is an anthology of blog posts by thought leaders in technology, media, e-commerce and life sciences, curated by Kay Koplovitz, founder of USA Network and chairman of Springboard Enterprises. In 2000, Koplovitz co-founded Springboard as an accelerator for an expert network of women entrepreneurs. In their first six months, Springboard companies raised over $165 million in total funding, and nearly $200 million in their first year. Now, fifteen years later, companies in the Springboard portfolio have raised over $6.5 billion and have had positive liquidity events for investors, including high-value acquisition and IPOs. Been There, Run That offers insights from dozens of Springboard alumnae and advisors on starting up, raising capital, fostering human capital, and setting company culture, an entrepreneurial tool chest. For early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs, seasoned business owners, and serial entrepreneurs who want tips on crowdfunding and new technologies, readers will find value in real-life advice from those who have truly “been there, run that.” “A treasure chest of wisdom, common sense that will hopefully become more common as more come to understand it. Take your time reading this one, the good ideas are priceless and they appear on just about every single page.”—Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur

Peer-to-Peer Leadership

Author : Mila Baker
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609947484

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Peer-to-Peer Leadership by Mila Baker Pdf

Our leadership models are stuck in an Industrial Age, top-down mentality. But in our complex, data-drenched, 24/7 world, there is simply too much information coming from too many different directions too quickly for any one leader or group to stay on top of it. Hierarchy is breaking down everywhere—why should leadership be any different? Inspired by the peer-to-peer model of computing used in social networking and crowdsource technologies, Mila Baker shows a new way to lead. Organizations, she says, must become networks of "equipotent" nodes of power—peer leaders. The job of the leader is now to set the overall goals and direction and optimize the health of that network, not tell it what to do. In these organizations, leadership roles shift rapidly to fit the needs of any given situation. Information flows freely so those who need it can find it easily and act on it immediately. Feedback becomes an organic part of the workflow, enabling rapid course corrections. Baker shows how companies like Gore and Herman Miller have achieved long-term success practicing these principles and provides a structure that any organization can adapt to build flexibility, resiliency, and accountability.

Strategic Connections

Author : Anne Baber,Lynne Waymon,Andre Alphonso,Jim Wylde
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814434970

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Strategic Connections by Anne Baber,Lynne Waymon,Andre Alphonso,Jim Wylde Pdf

Smartphones, social media, and the Internet can only get a professional so far. At some point, the success of an organization will depend on face-to-face relationships, which means the isolated employees trying to do everything virtually will at some point have to fall back on the tried-and-true, essential skill of relationship building if they are going to survive in today’s increasingly collaborative workforce.Unveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, Strategic Connections provides practical advice anyone can use for building better, more productive business relationships. Readers will discover how to:• Commit to a positive, proactive networking mindset• Earn trust• Boost their social acumen and increase their likeability• Master conversational skills and deepen interactions• Employ storytelling to make communications memorable• And much moreBusinesses don’t have to look very far to find employees with a strong presence in the different social networks. If you want to stand out and make yourself invaluable to your organization, focus on making your presence known in the company’s physical networks.

Women, Work, and Family

Author : Michele A. Paludi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798216167273

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Women, Work, and Family by Michele A. Paludi Pdf

A sweeping collection of new essays gathers historical background, theoretical perspectives, and the latest research on integrating work and personal life in a multigenerational workforce. A half-century after the women's movement of the 1960s, women still have not achieved equality in the workplace, in part because the burdens of family still fall largely upon their shoulders. This in-depth review examines legislation, social-science research, and human resources management practices dealing with women's integration of work and life roles. It explores the context and theory that explain new workplace trends and realities, and it offers practical recommendations on how women and companies can cope. The book is based on the premise that to attract and retain top talent and be competitive in the 21st century, employers must redesign their organizations to meet the needs of employees. A sort of "paper mentor" for women, it spells out the myths and realities of combining employment with motherhood and a committed relationship. The expert essays are also a guide for corporations, intended to help them understand the necessity of easing women's burdens—and nurturing their talent—through attention to work hours and to policies that can facilitate the integration of work and life roles.

The Nowhere Office

Author : Julia Hobsbawm
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541701946

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The Nowhere Office by Julia Hobsbawm Pdf

Named one of the Financial Times' BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2022 What has changed in the workplace? Everything. The traditional office was probably doomed anyway. Then a global shutdown changed everything we thought we knew about work, including where and when it needed to take place. Automation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have accelerated, and perhaps as much as one third of the world’s permanent workforce will soon become remote. In The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm offers a strategic and practical guide to navigating this pivotal moment in the history of work and provides lessons for how both employees and employers can adapt. Hobsbawm draws on her extensive networks in business, academia, and entrepreneurship across generations to offer new ideas about how to handle hybrid working, as well as provides deep insight into how the way we work is being transformed by larger issues such as community, hierarchy, bias, identity, and security. The Nowhere Office describes a unique moment in the history of work which, if understood and handled correctly, can provide a springboard for the biggest transformational change in the workplace for a century: something better, more meaningful, and more workable for everyone.

The Confidence Effect

Author : Grace Killelea
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814436424

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The Confidence Effect by Grace Killelea Pdf

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it . . . yet how much has actually changed regarding the makeup of leadership when it comes to adding women’s voices? While it's easy to still blame a corporate culture that favors men, seasoned executive Grace Killelea identifies another culprit: a surprising disparity in confidence--with men typically prone to overestimate their abilities, and women too often selling themselves short. For real change to take place within the workforce when it comes to adding more women’s voices within leadership, we must get beyond knowing that we simply have the ability as women to speak out, take risks, and fill leadership positions; we must become more confident that we can do those things with excellence!The Confidence Effect moves beyond research, statistics, and cheerleading, and focuses on what’s really important: how women can become more confident, one step at a time. While developing the four Rs of Success--relationships, reputation, results, and resilience--women will learn how best to:• Build circles of influence• Seize opportunities they normally avoid• Leverage and promote their skills• Cultivate executive presence• Bounce back from setbacks• And moreYou’ve been encouraged to get in the game your entire life, yet you remain on the sidelines. Why? Become more confident in who you are and what you can do, and claim the success you deserve!

Millennials & Management

Author : Lee Caraher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351861267

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Millennials & Management by Lee Caraher Pdf

As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations and Millennials join companies at steady rate, companies are suffering through tension and dissonance between Millennials and Boomers, and realizing that they can't just wait for management to age out to fix it. Finding productive ways to work across the generation gap is essential, and the organizations that do this well will have significant strategic advantages over those that don't. Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work addresses a very real concern of large and small businesses nationwide: how to motivate, collaborate with, and manage the millennial generation, who now make up almost 50% of the American workforce. The key is to change Boomer attitudes from disbelief and derision to acceptance and respect without giving up work standards. Using real world examples, author Lee Caraher gives leaders data-driven steps to take to co-create a productive workplace for today and tomorrow.

REACH!

Author : Stacey Alcorn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781491816660

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REACH! by Stacey Alcorn Pdf

What is REACH! As opposed to reach? REACH! With an exclamation point portrays emotion. It is me yelling to you. It’s tiny, five foot tall me, raised to my tippy toes on the sidelines of your life screaming from the top of my lungs to you, “REACH! Damn it! REACH!.” This book is about magic. It is about creating something out of nothing. It is about bravely closing your eyes, pushing through your fear, and reaching for something that is not yet within your grasp. Once armed with the lessons and stories in this book, you will have the essential skills needed to achieve all of your dreams. For the first time ever, the job you want, the spouse you seek, the house, the car, the education, and the accomplishments you yearn for are all within REACH! If this sounds unlikely or even impossible, keep reading, as I share back-to-back stories of people like you who thought that their greatest aspirations were pipe dreams too. Then something amazing happened in each of the lives I showcase in this book. They learned a skill never taught in school, rarely dissected in books, and seldom talked about amongst peers. They learned how to REACH!.

SUPERHUBS

Author : Sandra Navidi
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781857889796

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ONE OF BLOOMBERG'S BEST BOOKS, 2016 FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINI $UPERHUBS is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most powerful titans, the -superhubs- pull the levers of our global financial system. Combining insider's knowledge with principles of network science, Sandra Navidi offers a startling new perspective on how superhubs build their powerful networks and how their decisions impact all our lives. $UPERHUBS reveals what happens at the exclusive, invitation-only platforms - The World Economic Forum in Davos, the meetings of the International Monetary Fund, think-tank gatherings and exclusive galas. This is the most vivid portrait to date of the global elite: the bank CEOs, fund managers, billionaire financiers and politicians who, through their interlocking relationships and collective influence are transforming our increasingly fragile financial system, economy and society.

The Retirement Boom

Author : Catherine Allen,Nancy Bearg,Rita Foley,Jaye Smith
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781632659828

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The Retirement Boom by Catherine Allen,Nancy Bearg,Rita Foley,Jaye Smith Pdf

Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to.The Retirement Boom is a practical roadmap for making your “retirement years” a time of reinvention, excitement, and fulfillment.The coauthors of this practical guide are four Boomer professionals who have walked the walk and transformed themselves from corporate executives, CEOs, consultants, and national security policy experts into a range of new careers that more closely hew to their passions. They interviewed more than 300 people and 30 organizations in the writing of this book.The Retirement Boom includes tips, stories, exercises, and techniques to help you:Design your own “retirement” and plan for it.Use your time creatively and well.Understand what's changing in the workplace and the workforce today.Make your money last.Renegotiate life at home.Improve and keep your health.Build and leave a legacy.Simplify your life.And much, much more.

Fully Connected

Author : Julia Hobsbawm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472926869

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Fully Connected by Julia Hobsbawm Pdf

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined 'health' as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update. In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey – often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' – to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.

Disrupters

Author : Dr. Patti Fletcher
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613083802

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Disrupters by Dr. Patti Fletcher Pdf

Only 4% of women are CEOs and women make up only 18% of board seats around the globe. But if all the research shows that the odds are stacked against women, what can we learn from the women who managed to reach the pinnacle of success despite the obstacles of systemic bias in corporate America? Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold explores what has enabled some women to not just break the glass ceiling but to shatter it against all odds. Dr. Patti Fletcher includes in her book first-person in-depth interviews with dozens of trailblazing women executives and board members. This exciting and uplifting book demystifies what it takes to go where so few have gone before by: Exploring the mindsets that help or hinder success against all odds Discovering the right time to begin the journey to a role that feels too big and too hard to obtain Learning the secrets to success that separate those who succeed from those who do not Building a personal board of directors to help you catapult yourself to the boardroom Case studies and interviews will include women of diverse races, ages, backgrounds, and industries -- all sharing what it means to achieve their own version of success

Women Entrepreneur Revolution: Ready! Set! Launch!

Author : Jenn Aubert
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452594392

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Women Entrepreneur Revolution: Ready! Set! Launch! by Jenn Aubert Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at how identifying and utilizing role models can benefit your business and life. Through interviews and research, the author identifies the traits, motivations, and personal styles of empowered women entrepreneurs and distills it all into a practical guide that explains how to become a savvy and successful businesswoman.--Adapted from publisher description.

The People Equation

Author : Deborah Perry Piscione,David Crawley PhD
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626566439

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The People Equation by Deborah Perry Piscione,David Crawley PhD Pdf

The People Equation Every business leader knows that the key to growth is innovation—if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Deborah Perry Piscione and David Crawley argue that ultimately the key to innovation is people. After all, creativity is a uniquely human function, something that can't be automated. So how do you design an organization so that it provides the elements that will bear new thinking and bring forth bold ideas? Through The People Equation. Based on examples from their consulting work and research into successful business practices, Perry Piscione and Crawley's The People Equation enables leaders to create a culture where psychological safety is a given, risk taking is embraced, and collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured. When experiments and new initiatives look promising, Perry Piscione and Crawley's Improvisational Innovation process provides a road map to quickly develop ideas and bring them to market. All this requires upending the usual organizational pyramid and instilling a completely new mindset throughout the organization. Perry Piscione and Crawley show that in our rapidly changing world, the top is not where the really disruptive ideas are going to come from. And if people are afraid to take chances, even fail, you're never going to get those ideas—playing it safe means you'll be out of the game. The People Equation provides you with a formula for exponentially increasing out-of-the-box thinking in your organization and multiplying your chances for greater growth and success.