Simply put, this is a must-read manual for anyone thinking about coming back into their career after stepping out for a while. But it’s not just a strategy for career gaps. It’s also a guide for those who want something new, thinking about entrepreneurship, poised to make their dream career a reality or stepping into […]
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The Miracle Morning
Author Hal Elrod has built quite a following with The Miracle Morning series. He wrote the book to share with the world what he discovered had helped him achieve great success in his personal and professional life. Yet Elrod is not sharing these pearls of wisdom lightly. He’s overcome a major professional setback, a tragic […]
Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success
This is a book that everyone who prioritizes success should have on their bookshelf and refer to on a regular basis. What I like best about this book, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, is that it’s all about the little nuances that we take for granted that can make powerful differences in your personal and professional […]
Assertiveness Training: Stop People Pleasing, Feeling Guilty and Caring for What Others Think, and Start Speaking Up, Saying No, and being More Confident.
I found this little gem on Amazon and decided to check it out. I was pleasantly surprised at this fifth book in the Practical Emotional Intelligence series by James W. Williams. Yes, the title is lengthy, but it does a nice job in summarizing the wisdom, advice, and tools that you’ll find inside to build […]
How to Be an Even Better Manager
How to Be an Even Better Manager provides the blueprint for managing successfully in any situation, from policy and decision making to building effective skills and an exemplary team. The forty chapters outlined in this book by Michael Armstrong cover everything a manager should have a working knowledge of. Especially if they have their sights […]
6 Picks: Books to Launch Your Self-Reflection Journey
There are moments in our lives (or at least there should be) when you need to stop and reflect on who you are and what you’ve become. Leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, creatives, and well, members of the human race all succeed in life, love and career if they develop the practice of self-awareness. So, we have […]
The Road Back To You: An Enneagram Journey To Self-Discovery
This is a book written by two spiritual authors, but without the heavy dose of religious overtones. Rather, it’s a guide to help you understand yourself and how that awareness will help you better relate to others and build a career and life that aligns with your type. And if that awareness leads you back […]
Return on Ambition: A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being
If you’re set on achieving big goals, being ropelled by your ambition gets results. And this book offers the definition of ambition as “a powerful yearning and drive to attain a future stat that is different from today and challenging to reach.” While it can be driven by many root factors, it’s the never-ending fuel […]
Book Craft Q&A with Sam Meier
Sometimes information technology professionals and creatives don’t connect. They are busy in their respective industries, but need to make time to collaborate as they both depend on each other for success . This is why you need to meet Sam Meier. He gets it. Not only does he have a technical background, but a creative […]
Bookstore Spotlight: Planting People Growing Justice
Here’s a ‘novel’ concept, build an online bookstore and publishing house to answer the call of social change. And what could be timelier? Dr. Artika Tyner is the founder and manager of the Planting People Growing Justice Press and Bookstore, a “Black woman owned social enterprise” that opened its doors in 2017 in St. Paul […]