Job & Career Center September / October 2011

A Huffington Post editor explains how eliminate time-wasting tasks at work by embracing shortcuts, strategies, tricks and other workarounds, in a book that includes a foreword by the best-selling author of Getting Things Done. 20,000 first printing.

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The Corner Office : Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed - Adam Bryant

Publisher: Times Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/12/2011

ISBN-13: 9780805093063
ISBN-10: 0805093060

The "Corner Office" columnist and head of a Pulitzer Prize-winning national reporting team draws on the insights of such leading CEOs as Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Yahoo's Carol Bartz and DreamWorks's Jeffrey Katzenberg to identify proven leadership principles as well as the qualities that CEOs most value in their employees. 40,000 first printing.

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The 9-to-5 Cure : Work on Your Own Terms and Reinvent Your Life - Kristin Cardinale

Publisher: JIST Works
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2011

ISBN-13: 9781593578077
ISBN-10: 1593578075

The 9-to-5 Cure is a user's guide to an innovative career lifestyle. Learn how to insulate yourself from sudden and total job loss by following the practical advice detailed in each chapter. Earn a good living in any economic environment by learning how to create an exceptional number of career opportunities and then select the offers that are most attractive to you. Create your own schedule and choose when and where you work. Discover a new way to review your skills and the best ways to market them to employers. Work on your own terms and reinvent your life -- today!.

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The 1% Solution for Work and Life : How to Make Your Next 30 Days the Best Ever - Thomas K. Connellan

Publisher: Peak Performance Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/16/2010

ISBN-13: 9780976950622
ISBN-10: 0976950626

Presents strategies for introducing small changes in habits and outlook which can enhance the quality of life and improve the chances of success in achieving personal and professional goals.

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Entrepreneurial Success

One Simple Idea : Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine while Letting Others Do the Work - Stephen Key

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/22/2011

ISBN-13: 9780071756150
ISBN-10: 0071756159

In this book, Key reveals the secrets that helped him and thousands of his students--including bestselling author Tim Ferriss--turn their creativity into a passive income generator by "renting" an idea to a company, which takes care of R&D, production, marketing, sales, accounting, distribution, and everything else you don't want to do. You'll be amazed at how simple the processof licensing an idea for profit actually is.

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The Entrepreneur Equation : Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business - Carol Roth

Publisher: BenBella Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/22/2011

ISBN-13: 9781935618447
ISBN-10: 193561844X

Examines the risks and rewards of starting, buying, and owning a business, and explains how to assess one's potential to succeed as an entrepreneur.

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Companies on a Mission : Entrepreneurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly, and Profitably - Michael V. Russo

Publisher: Stanford Business Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/06/2010

ISBN-13: 9780804761628
ISBN-10: 0804761620

This is the first book to explain how following a vision for the earth and for society can be a powerful route to profits for small and medium sized companies. Companies on a Mission explains that mission-driven companies appreciate and leverage traditional strategic principles-with a twist-to win in the marketplace. By clearly and pragmatically laying out this argument, author Michael V. Russo crystallizes for enlightened businesses what Michael Porter made clear for mainstream firms years ago. The book shows that a mission-driven approach creates significant barriers to imitation by larger, established rivals. Mission-driven firms build their brands on authenticity. Only you are you. And, authenticity builds customer loyalty.

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Surviving Your Serengeti : 7 Skills to Master Business and Life - Stefan Swanepoel

Publisher: Wiley
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2011

ISBN-13: 9780470947807
ISBN-10: 0470947802

Likens the current state of the workforce in economic downturn to the massive wildebeest migration across the Serengeti, and applies seven skills used for desert survival to success in business, including endurance, strategy, and efficiency.

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