Resource
Index Categories:
Index Categories:
Recommended Resources
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2006
Make the Right Career Move teaches the skills, tools, and branding to
make all the right career moves, whether your focus is finding a new
job, moving up to a better job, or making your current job better. It
makes job search and self-promotion smarter, helping readers land
their dream job and realize the benefits of a better job faster. It's
a career guide that belongs in the hand of every executive, attorney
or professional - or any ambitious job-seeker, from new graduates to
senior executives.
Women don't ask :
Negotiation and the gender divide
Negotiation and the gender divide
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003
This book explores evidence for how women fail to ask for what they want
or deserve, as well as on the self-imposed and social barriers to their
requests, which foster ongoing inequalities in women's professional and
personal lives.
Your signature path
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1996
Bellman provides a unique and valuable perspective on finding meaningful
work, guiding readers through a series of experiential exercises to find
one's life and careerpath.
Transitions: making sense of life's changes.
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1980
Bridges' classic three-stage model of organizational and individual
transitions (an ending, a neutral zone of confusion and ambiguity, and
a new beginning) presents a process for dealing with change and
transition effectively.
Our wildest dreams
New York: HarperBusiness, 1992
A handbook for women entrepreneurs, that is also useful to men
contemplating starting their own businesses. Shares the results of her
own experiences and those of other women entrepreneurs to identify
"a whole new definition of success and an entirely new paradigm
of working life."
When smart people fail
New York: Penguin, 1993
This book examines failure and provides practical perspective, tools,
and coping strategies to learn from and move past failure, creating a
more satisfying career.
Rich dad, poor dad
New York, Warner Books, 1997
A best-seller with some provocative ideas about the importance of
financial literacy and how to make your money work for you rather than
working for money.
The pathfinder:
How to choose or change your career for a lifetime of satisfaction & success
How to choose or change your career for a lifetime of satisfaction & success
New York: Fireside (Simon & Schuster), 1998
Incorporating many of the excellent ideas of Landmark Education, this
book provides good information on how to identify the ideal career.
Uses three primary tools: Wants List, Commitments & Requirements
List, and Questions List to assist in the career assessment and
targeting process.
Rites of passage at $100,000 to $1 million+:
Your insider's lifetime guide to executive job-changing and
faster career progress in the 2lst Century
Your insider's lifetime guide to executive job-changing and
faster career progress in the 2lst Century
New York: Viceroy Press, 2000
Written for executives, the book provides excellent information on the
use of recruiters in a job search, reflecting Lucht's professional
background as a recruiter. Also includes information on websites to
assist in a job search. I don't agree with some of Lucht's ideas
(about resumes of more than two pages, for example), but his advice on
recruiters is well worth reading.
You don't have to go home from work exhausted
New York: Bantam Books, 1992
This entertaining book provides practical steps to avoid burnout and
increase energy, job satisfaction, and balance in your life.
Managing for excellence
New York: John Wiley, 1984
Presents a new approach to management based on the ideas of
"Manager as Developer" and shared responsibility of managers
and their teams.
Influence: Science and practice
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001
The fourth edition of this bestseller provides a comprehensive and
well-documented review of the principles of influence and how they
permeate our lives, affecting us often in subtle and unobserved ways.
How to make meetings work
New York: Jove - Berkley Publishing, 1985
The innovative and effective Interaction approach to making meetings
work, with its simple technology laid out for the reader.
The five dysfunctions of a team
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002
One in a series of leadership fables by Lencioni, all of them
instructive and easy to read, that enumerates the central challenges
of teams - trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results -
and how to address them in simple and powerful terms.
Fish! A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results
New York: Hyperion, 2000
An entertaining parable about how to create workplaces that are happy,
productive, and offer excellent service to their customers.
Managing the professional service firm
New York: Free Press, 1993
In this and the following book, Maister advances important ideas about
how to be successful in a professional service firm, from where and
how to focus business development efforts to the importance of
coaching and accountability to enhance productivity.
True professionalism
New York: Free Press, 1997
In this and the previous book, Maister advances important ideas about
how to be successful in a professional service firm, from where and
how to focus business development efforts to the importance of
coaching and accountability to enhance productivity.
Center for Creative Leadership
A non-profit organization that provides research and training in
leadership development publishes an excellent array of books and
reports on development issues. Also see website below.
Bringing out the best in people
New York: McGraw Hill, 1994
Daniels explains simple and powerful behavioral principles, such as
positive reinforcement, to create successful development and other
change programs.
How to think like Leonardo daVinci
New York: Dell, 1998
A guide to developing your creative and intellectual potential through
a set of engaging exercises and lessons based on 7 DaVincian
principles of genius, including curiousity, sensation, and whole-brain
thinking.
Emotional intelligence
New York: Bantam Books, 1995
I recommend this book for its cogent and fascinating explanation of
how emotional "smarts" (emotional intelligence, or EQ) -
such as the ability to understand the reactions of others and manage
one's own reactions predict success and achievement twice as
powerfully as traditional measures of IQ.
Wherever you go, there you are
New York: Hyperion, 1994
This wise book and practical guide to meditation is subtitled,
"Mindfulness meditation in everyday life." You may remember
Kabat-Zinn from Bill Moyers" Healing and the Mind series.
A path with heart
New York: Bantam Books, 1993
A profoundly inspiring book about the challenges of living a spiritual
life in the modern world, written by a leading American Buddhist
teacher, psychologist, and meditation instructor. This book is filled
with stories, guided meditations and practical tools, humor, and
wisdom. It is a delight.
A general theory of love
New York: Vintage Books, 2001
A fascinating book about the psychobiology of love and relationships,
written by three psychiatrists from a leading medical school. Part
poetry, part science, and endlessly fascinating exploration of the
human brain and relationships.
The lessons of experience:
How successful executives develop on the job
How successful executives develop on the job
New York: Lexington Books, 1988
Empirically based book from the Center for Creative Leadership on the
kind of experiences and lessons that provide the best learning for
successful executives.
Breaking the glass ceiling
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1987
Results from the Center for Creative Leadership's pioneering
three-year study of women executives in Fortune 100 companies,
identifying the factors that determine success and derailment in
corporations.
The resilience factor
New York: Broadway Books / Random House, 2002
Subtitled, "7 Essential skills for overcoming life's inevitable
obstacles," this book by University of Pennsylvania
psychologists, presents information and techniques based on 15+ years
of research into the importance of resilience for emotional,
occupational, and physical health, well-being, and success. Reivich
and Shatte show that resilience -- "the ability to persevere and
adapt when things go awry" -- is the most important component of
emotional intelligence. Based on the importance of accurate thinking
(as opposed to positive thinking), the book helps the reader evaluate
his or her level of resilience and then shows how to develop and
maintain resilience in the face of life's challenges. An empirically-
based and useful how-to book for life and career.
Learned optimism
New York, Knopf, 1991
Written by a recent past president of the American Psychological
Association and a leading expert on motivation, this fascinating book
looks at the critical role of optimism in determining the quality of
life. The book nurtures optimistic coping styles by including a
program exercises to break the habit of pessimism and helplessness and
learn the habit of optimism.
Fierce conversations
New York: Berkley Books, 2002
A practical and inspiring guide on powerful communication: how to have
difficult conversations and how to use those conversations to
transform relationships and situations.
The art of possibility
New York: Penguin, 2000
Co-written by a therapist and orchestra conductor couple, this little
book with a big message radiates enthusiasm and optimism. It offers a
sense of the great possibilities that can illuminate and transform our
personal and professional lives if only we choose possibility.
What Happy People Know
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003
This easy-to-read book, co-authored by the founder of the Life
Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch, distills simple and effective
principles and skills for achieving happiness.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
New York: Hyperion, 2007
One of the world's best executive coaches provides tips on the 20
workplace habits that keep successful people from reaching their full
potential in an entertaining and useful book that every ambitious
person should read.
Going to the Top
New York: Penguin Books, 2000
Based on research with 200 women executives, this book outlines the
lessons for women interested in going to the top, including four
critical factors for women's success: competence, outcomes,
relationships, and endurance.
What Makes a Leader?
Harvard Business Review, November-December, 1998
Whether you are a leader or not, this is a simple, straightforward
description of emotional intelligence at work.
Meeting of the Minds
"O" Magazine, October 2006
An interview with Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional
Intelligence, about how relationships have the power to shape our
brains.
Business Week Online has a number of excellent career columns,
including Marshall Goldsmith's "Marshall and Friends" that have
excellent career advice.
Flawless consulting
Austin, TX: Learning Concepts, 1981
An enduring classic about the consulting process and skills necessary
for a successful consulting practice, from negotiating contracts to
being authentic with clients. Practical "consulting
guidebook" that contains specific how-to advice for many
consulting situations.
The website of the American Society for Training and Development
(ASTD), a national membership organization has numerous links and
information on everything from policy to resources.
A comprehensive website with everything from job listings to company
and salary profiles to career management articles and tools.
A comprehensive website with everything from job listings to company
and salary profiles to career management articles and tools.
An excellent array of resources on development from a leading training
and research center, The Center for Creative Leadership.
This website brings together independent consultants and contract
projects with a database of over 130,000 gurus and over 14,000 hiring
companies. Also includes a guru gallery with interviews of
consultants.
is an example of online professional networks, one of the newer and
fastest-growing Internet resources. Based on the six degree of
separation networking principle that only six intervening contacts can
connect any two people in the world, and based on the success of
social networking sites like Friendster, LinkedIn and similar sites
are among the newer Internet resources that can be used to link with
your trusted contacts and with theirs. Can be used for information,
introductions, jobs, and other business opportunities.
tracks the board memberships of major U.S. companies and allows the
user to track information on top executives and companies and their
interlocking associations.