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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Strategic Impact: A Leader’s Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan
Here’s another catchy phrase that business leaders like to throw around—strategic planning. Yet, the ones who really get it and see its value are the leaders who’ve taken their business to great heights. And there’s the critical difference. You can say you’re doing this, or you can really do this and mean it. Your team […]
Up From Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed
John Hope Bryant brings hope to all those who aspire to greater circumstances, wealth and success. He also shows through his own story that anything is possible if you are willing to try. And what is most important is to clarify that while these are indeed desirable outcomes and topics addressed in the book, they […]
Your Oxygen Mask First: 17 Habits to Help High Achievers Survive & Thrive in Leadership & Life
In the category of success books, this is one that leaders, and emerging leaders, must have on their bookshelves. And it is also one that you will turn to time and again for insight and inspiration. If you’re ready for a shake up in the way that you’ve been approaching success, then this personal growth […]
Author Insights: Expert Advice For Achieving Financial Bliss
This is a topic that will hit home for so many people. Achieving a point in your life when you feel you have a solid financial foundation reduces stress, increases security and opens the door to a realm of possibilities. It’s not all about money. After all, money doesn’t buy you happiness, right? But understanding […]
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Everyone knows legendary basketball star and coach, Phil Jackson, and much for his unconventional approach to leading elite athletes onto championship victory. What you may not know his how he chose a more mindful and spiritual path to success and how he thoughtfully blended spiritual wisdom with traditional methodologies to achieve unapparelled success on the […]
Unapologetically Ambitious
I absolutely love this book. And I so wish that I had read this book in my youth. Because of those and many other reasons, I have starred this as one I’ll gift again and again to the young people in my life. What a thoughtful, motivational journey author Shellye Archambeau has outlined. From the […]