Books on Career Development
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A guide for women in the workplace to developing stronger language and communicating powerfully. Offers ready to use action plans, self evaluations and crib sheets, as well as stories and advice from women succeeding in the workplace. Shows how to get respect without sacrificing dignity or...
Chick lit meets career guidebook in this sassy and practical volume by career manager Williams. Much of the information she provides is commonsensical, but she presents it in a refreshing way, with plenty of interactive exercises to get readers thinking about who they are, what they want to do and...
The fact that there are few women occupying top-level positions in corporate America has, for a long time, been blamed on a ubiquitous "glass ceiling." But according to Gail Evans, this is a tired myth implying a woman is a "person-who's-done-to instead of a person-who's-doing." In Play Like a Man,...
This breezy, conversational book recounts the stories of 100 women born between 1945 and 1955. While their individual successes were not noteworthy, their collective actions improved conditions and provided opportunities for young women today. Most of the individuals profiled came from...
Much has been written about the glass ceiling women encounter in business, but Carol Gallagher isn't having it. Of the 200 women executives she interviewed for Going to the Top, many had already found "windows" through the ceiling; many others, Gallagher says, will get through eventually. To her,... |
This is a guidebook for working women who believe that they are being held back in the workplace. A glass ceiling for women is not in place because of male management, according to Kate White. Rather, she maintains, women create their own glass ceiling because of their good-girl personalities.
There are more high-salaried women in the workforce today than ever before, yet most females remain seriously underpaid when compared to their male counterparts. Motivational speaker and financial journalist Barbara Stanny decided to find out why by identifying the differences between those who draw...
For businesswomen who are unsure of which step to take on the road to success, Marian N. Ruderman and Patricia J. Ohlott offer Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women. Based on a study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership, researchers Ruderman and Ohlott explain...
More women than men start new businesses annually, since women enjoy the flexibility and ease of child care that working at home provides. Huff, a business journalist and author (Home-Based Business Ideas for Women, Pilot, 1993), enumerates 101 business opportunities to women found in traditional...
After carefully studying hundreds of prosperous businesswomen, coresearchers (and twin sisters) Donna Brooks and Lynn Brooks identified a handful of specific skills and practices that were common to those at the top. Their Seven Secrets of Successful Women shows how finding a mentor, increasing... |
