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The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity
by Kory Kogon
Citing the productivity challenges posed by today's high-demand, interrupted environments, a guide by three FranklinCovey leadership experts identifies five strategic choices that help professionals to establish top priorities, focus their mindsets and achieve important goals.
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Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Hired, and Rewarded at Work
by Jessica Kleiman
Shows anyone looking to land a new job, attract freelance assignments, stay essential in a current position, or get that coveted promotion by using public relations skills to achieve his or her goals. Be Your Own Best Publicist will teach you how to set a personal PR strategy that gets results, build key message points and deliver them with style, craft the perfect "pitch" for each situation, network and develop relationships that will help you get ahead, and use creativity to stand out from the competition.
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The Career Fitness Workbook: How to Find, Win & Hold onto the Job of Your Dreams
by Peter Weddle
This guide provides an engaging way for job seekers to rethink their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and goals, and challenges and opportunities in the new world that has emerged after the "Great Recession." As a self-instructional workbook, this helpful companion enables career builders to learn valuable lessons at their own pace and apply them to their own unique circumstances. Exercises and worksheets cover topics such as discovering individual talent, setting goals, nurturing the facets of a healthy career, how to define personal victories, and getting back on track.
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
by Jonathan M Acuff
A consultant, public speaker and best-selling author describes how to make career changes and to avoid feeling trapped in the wrong job by changing the way workers view their skills, relationships and work ethics through the use of a “Career Savings Account.”
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Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
by Carla A. Harris
Carla Harris, one of the most powerful and respected women in business and Chairperson of the National Women's Business Council, shares advice, tips, and strategies for surviving in any workplace environment. While climbing the corporate ladder, Harris had her own personal missteps and celebrated numerous victories. She vowed that when she reached senior management, and people came to her for advice, she would provide them with the tools and strategies honed by her experience. Expect to Win is an inspirational must-read for anyone seeking battle-tested tools to fulfilling their true potential and for fans of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In.
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Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life
by Karen Finerman
Wall Street investment banker Finerman offers advice to women on how to succeed at work, relationships and finance. She noticed numerous ways that she and her female colleagues sabotaged themselves both professionally and personally by failing to apply the same logic they used in other spheres of their lives. Covering three major topics (Career, Money, Love), Finerman's Rules serves up unvarnished advice about getting ahead in your career, overcoming failure, meeting your ideal mate, and navigating the challenges of work-life balance. She also offers the reader a crash course in taking control of her financial destiny.
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#Girlboss
by Sophia Amoruso
The founder of the Nasty Gal fashion e-tailer shares an irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women that explains how to channel personal passion and energy while overcoming insecurities, outlining straightforward advice on doing meaningful work and garnering recognition.
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Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by Adam M. Grant
An award-winning researcher and consultant explains how effective networking, influence and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers and givers that dramatically shape success rates, citing the essential roles of behind-the-scenes contributors to famous organizations while outlining a revolutionary approach to networking and productivity.
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Happy at Work: 60 Simple Ways to Stay Engaged and Be Successful
by Jim Donovan
Even in a tight economy, job satisfaction isn’t a luxury; fulfilled, happy employees are productive, innovative, and loyal. And workplace fulfillment spills over into happier families and better communities. Jim Donovan, a small-business owner, consultant, and speaker, has worked with employees and employers for twenty-five years. In that time he has tested and honed these shift-producing strategies on everything from managing time, making decisions, and marking milestones to breaking patterns, bouncing back, and becoming exceptional. Each tip’s method and rationale are clearly explained. Real workplace vignettes demonstrate the benefits and results that can be gleaned from simple shifts and actions. These tools will empower you with the knowledge that no matter the circumstance, you can think, act, and feel in ways that create purpose, success, and, yes, happiness.
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HeadTrash: Cleaning Out the Junk that Stands Between You and Success
by Tish Squillaro
Why do executives get stuck? Why do leaders sometimes find themselves pushing hard but not gaining traction? Frequently it's because they're working against themselves, defeating their best efforts with their own problematic thoughts and emotions that hinder your ability to respond to business issues in a productive and professional way. HeadTrash is the negative voice of your subconscious, engaging you in a deadly inner dialogue that only you hear, consciously or subconsciously, but which affects everything you say and do and everyone around you. Based on their work with thousands of leaders, authors Tish Squillaro and Timothy I. Thomas discovered that some forms of HeadTrash can even produce symptoms in organizations that mirror the symptoms experienced by company leaders. This book investigates how to change your behavior and become a better leader.
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How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work
by Megan Hustad
Based on the experiences of twenty- and thirty-somethings, as well as the advice of experts ranging from Andrew Carnegie and Emily Post to Napoleon Hill, Helen Gurley Brown, and Stephen Covey, a hip and practical guide explains how to negotiate the often difficult ins and outs of office life with wise and whimsical advice on how to move up in the world.
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I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
by Kate White
As a follow up to her bestselling Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead...but Gutsy Girls Do, author and Cosmo magazine editor-in-chief Kate White is back with a wealth of no-nonsense advice for working women of all ages and professional levels. Including behind-the-scenes stories and unique perspectives (including her own), White aims to help women get the most out of their careers. She offers advice on topics that range from tangible (how to get a job) to less so (how to read work situations, or develop a "golden gut") as well as on special situations (how to handle maternity leave). Though not all of her tips will appeal to everyone, they are on the whole "useful and delightfully no-nonsense," says Kirkus Reviews.
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
by David Zweig
In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? David Zweig explores what we can all learn from a modest group he calls "Invisibles." Their careers require expertise, skill, and dedication, yet they receive little or no public credit. And that's just fine with them. Zweig met with a wide range of Invisibles to discover first hand what motivates them and how they define success and satisfaction. Despite the diversity of their careers, Zweig found that all Invisibles embody the same core traits. And he shows why the rest of us might be more fulfilled if we followed their example.
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Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need
by Nicholas Wyman
Today, unemployment hovers remains high, but many job openings go unfilled because companies simply cannot find people with the skills they actually need. The good news is that this skills gap represents unprecedented opportunities for every person seeking a successful and exciting career. These opportunities can be found in the myriad of educational options that provide the technical, vocational, and soft skills on demand in today’s workplace, such as professional certifications, associates degrees, apprenticeships, and occupational training. In Job U, you’ll learn about these paths to rewarding occupations; where to find them and how to parlay them into the best paying job in any field. And along the way, you’ll meet individuals of all ages who have attained their “dream jobs” through a non-traditional education.
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
In this bestselling book, Facebook chief operating officer and influential businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg urges women to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately. Though she's clearly done her research, she's also included plenty of candid anecdotes from her own life. Women -- whether or not they have as privileged a background or illustrious a career as Sandberg's -- will hopefully find much to relate to, think about, be inspired by, and act on.
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The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great
by Rick Smith
Maybe you're trapped in a dead-end job that you're afraid to leave. Or maybe you already have a good job--one that gives you room to grow and exercise your talents--but you don't really feel like you're doing your best work. Rick Smith knows firsthand what it's like to feel stuck in a career rut. He worked in a midlevel job where he had modest success. Then his life took an unexpected turn and he found himself creating a business that became wildly successful. He unlocked a level of performance he did not know he had in him. And after talking to others who had also transformed their careers from mundane to magnificent, he realized that the secret doesn't lie with some mysterious talent, trait, or affinity for risk. Rather, it lies with your ability to harness your true strengths and passions. Through anecdotes, lessons from brain science, and tools for self-assessment, Smith shows how, with the right amount of passion, determination, and three simple steps, anyone can make the leap to a more successful and fulfilling life.
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Personality Style at Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) Anyone
by Kate Ward
The most important business skill isn’t a skill at all. It’s your personality. And only when you develop a keen understanding of your personality style―and the styles of the people you deal with―will you reach your full potential as a business professional. This groundbreaking guide helps you achieve positive results in virtually any workplace situation. You’ll learn why others behave as they do in specific situations and how to use that knowledge to turn every interpersonal encounter into a win-win scenario. Personality Style at Work includes an assessment that you can take to identify your style. Armed with this information, you can adapt your behavior to create more practical, harmonious working relationships.
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success
by Dan Schawbel
How people perceive you has always been critical to a successful career. Now add in the internet, social media, and the unrelenting hum of 24/7 business, and the ability to brand and promote yourself effectively becomes absolutely essential. Drawing on proprietary research and interviews with the most dynamic professionals in business today, Schawbel takes readers through his step-by-step process of creating unique personal brands and leveraging them to maximum advantage. By basing these brands on the foundation of hard, soft, and online skills that are essential to get the job done right and by knowing exactly what managers value, Schawbel provides every reader with the unique skills and message that they'll need to get ahead today and for the rest of their careers.
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The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career
by Jack Welch
The best-selling authors of Winning present a guide to overcoming today's business challenges. When you get down to it, they argue, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. Coupled with Jack’s years of leadership and Suzy’s insights as former editor of the Harvard Business Review, their experiences infuse this book with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions that every manager at any level can use right now.
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Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship
by Maynard Webb
Rebooting Work reveals how anyone can take control of his or her own future, finding greater fulfillment, productivity, and happiness. Webb identifies 4 different mindsets around work (the company man, CEO of your own destiny, disenchanted employee, and the aspiring entrepreneur). He organizes those who are self-motivated versus those who are waiting to be discovered and aims to give readers the tools to become more self-actualized, happier, and ultimately more fulfilled in their careers. He demonstrates how to harness technology to embrace our own personal happiness, allowing people to become more productive at work and also spend more time with their families.
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Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success
by Rick Newman
In Rebounders, Rick Newman examines the rise and fall—and rise again—of some of our most prolific and productive figures in order to demystify the anatomy of resilience. He identifies nine key traits found in people who bounce back that can transform a setback into the first step toward great accomplishment. Newman turns many well-worn axioms on their head as he shows how virtually anybody can improve their resilience and get better at turning adversity into personal and professional achievement. In this uncertain and unstable time, Rebounders lays out the new rules for success and equips you with the tools you need to get ahead and thrive.
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
by Liz Wiseman
In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. Being new, naïve, and even clueless can be an asset. For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman explains how to reclaim and cultivate this curious, flexible, youthful mindset called Rookie Smarts. She argues that the most successful rookies are hunter-gatherers—alert and seeking, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like pioneers. Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she refers to as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of experience, they retain their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of these high-performing rookies. The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie.
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Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company
by Kevin Cope
All companies are driven to success or failure by the same five simple drivers: cash, profit, assets, growth, and people. Kevin Cope explores how day-to-day decisions can balance these drivers and contribute to the big picture of an organization's success. He details how to bring real value and passion to your work, convincingly communicate your ideas to leaders, improve your team's performance, even launch a successful business of your own. No matter your goal, this book is likely to help you discover new strategies for proving your value.
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Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead
by Nancy Ancowitz
Shows introverts how to leverage their quiet skills and talk about themselves and their businesses, ideas, and accomplishments confidently and with minimal stress to get the recognition they deserve, in a book that includes exercises, case studies, and interviews with Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, and more.
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Shake the World: It's Not about Finding a Job, It's about Creating a Life
by James Marshall Reilly
James Marshall Reilly set out to capture the insights of today’s brightest business and nonprofit leaders. He learned that despite their different fields, they’re all using similar tools to seize opportunities and redefine success. The role models in Shake the World define themselves not by money and title but by fulfillment and happiness. This book will light your path to greatness if you too want to shake the world.
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Shift: How to Reinvent Your Business, Your Career, and Your Personal Brand
by Peter Arnell
Branding expert Peter Arnell shares provocative insights into how to transform oneself or one's business through branding strategies. Arnell applied many of these same strategies to transform his own life by losing 256 pounds. Weaving together personal stories of his own transformation with stories about how he created transformative change for brands such as Reebok and Pepsi, Arnell shares his unique vision on how each of us can rebrand and transform ourselves, both personally and professionally, to achieve the success we desire.
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed--preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work--but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do. Spending time with a variety of people who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Matching your job to a preexisting passion does not matter, he reveals. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
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Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success
by G. Richard Shell
Wharton professor Richard Shell created the Success Course to help his world-class MBA students answer two questions that aren’t as obvious as they seem: “What, for me, is success?” and “How will I achieve it?” Based on that acclaimed course, Springboard shows how to assess the hidden influences of family, media, and culture on your beliefs about success. Then it helps you figure out your unique passions and capabilities, so you can focus more on what gives meaning and excitement to your life, and less on what you are “supposed” to want.
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Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters
by Jonathan M. Acuff
Over the last 100 years, the road to success for most everyone has been divided into predictable stages. The days of “success first, significance later,” have ended. While none of the stages can be skipped, they can be shortened and accelerated. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging, because things like fear only bother you when you do work that matters. The good news is Start gives readers practical, actionable insights to be more awesome, more often.
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The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
The one thing anyone can count on is that change is inevitable in life. This is as true of a career as it is a personal life, and the most successful are those who can adapt to new challenges and changes. In The Start-Up of You, authors Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha suggest that the skills that will serve you and your career best are those that serve new businesses best: the abilities to innovate, to be self-reliant, and to network. And investing in yourself is imperative. Change is inevitable, but Hoffman and Casnocha will help you "not only survive professionally in times of uncertainty but stand out from the pack and flourish" (Publishers Weekly).
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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization
by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
A digital executive shows millennials how to excel in a corporate environment still dominated by an older generation, while remaining true to their personal values. The author explains how readers can help companies focus on moon shots: things really worth going for that help both the company and the world. Readers learn how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.
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Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination
by Emily Bennington
For the first time in U.S. history, women form the majority of the workforce, filling more managerial positions than their male counterparts. Today's women are primed to take over the corporate world - if they don't stumble on the way up. Packed with insights from extraordinary women who have climbed the corporate ladder, this guide helps women navigate the rocky path from cubicle to executive suite. This ultra-practical guide based on the latest research on women in the workplace offers an ideal "Success Profile" along with the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of five reputation-enhancing areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership.
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What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
by Joan Williams
This unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get ahead--Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it's not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefit men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies--which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers.
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Working in the Global Economy: How to Develop and Manage Your Career Across Borders
by Roblyn Simeon
This book investigates the job and career markets from the point of view of individuals who are searching for new strategies to find, develop and manage their careers in a global environment. Not only does it provide the individual with the tools necessary to evaluate various domestic and international career markets, but it also presents strategies to help them package and market their skills and competencies at home and abroad. This book offers readers the tools they need to evaluate and manage their career environment and personal career profiles, and ultimately, to have a rewarding career.
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Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career
by Daniel Roberts
With Zoom, Fortune magazine offers the secrets to success from the top business leaders and entrepreneurs as featured in Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40 series. Discover how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh built a uniquely attractive corporate culture, how Under Armour founder Kevin Plank took on Nike, and what Marissa Mayer told herself before leaping from a safe post at Google to the high-risk top job at Yahoo. Zoom features the fascinating profiles of these and other young innovators and provides readers with tips to fast-track their own career success.
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Job Search & Career Info
Find resources to help you get a job, create a resume, file for unemployment, or improve your work skills.
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WorkOne
WorkOne provides resources to help you plan your career, including information on current job openings, resume assistance, workshops, skills assessments, training, and special programs for veterans, dislocated workers, job seekers over 55, job seekers with disabilities, and more.
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Grace Learning Center
Grace Learning Center provides assistance in developing the skills necessary to get entry level and more advanced level jobs. The center provides literacy and pre-GED training through a partnership with A.K. Smith, and offers workshops on a number of financial, technical, and career topics. Grace Learning Center is a WorkOne access point, and provides assistance with computer-based job searches.
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A.K. Smith Career Center
The A.K. Smith Career Center offers a comprehensive program in Adult Basic Education for adult learners who have not completed high school and high school graduates who need remediation in basic skills. Classes are conducted in reading, writing, math, English as a Second Language, and GED test preparation.
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044
http://mclib.org/
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