Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/14/2013
ISBN-13: 9780230341906
ISBN-10: 023034190X

An expert on workplace gender issues (Barbara Annis) and the author of bestselling relationship book Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus (John Gray) agree: men and women think differently at work. How, why, and what we can do about it to improve communication and efficiency (both at individual and organizational levels) are the major topics in a book that "promises to be a game changer" (Publishers Weekly). Extensive interviews allow for real-world examples that bring their analysis of the eight blind spots of the title to life, and the second portion of the book offers practical advice for improving communication in the workplace, making this a practical guide for just about anyone.

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Publisher: Crown Business
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/04/2013
ISBN-13: 9780770437152
ISBN-10: 077043715X

In this fast-paced memoir, Turney Duff relates his rollercoaster 15-year career on Wall Street, which took him from a low-level position at Morgan Stanley to a lucrative job as a trader, making hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary (and hundreds of thousands more in bonuses) before he crashed and burned thanks to his addiction to cocaine, a reflection of Wall Street's after-hours subculture of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Candid in exposing the pressures of his trading job and his eventual self-destruction, Duff's tale of life as a hedge fund trader is absorbing; though it will appeal to readers of Michael Lewis' Wall Street memoir, Liar's Poker, it is a much more personal story.

Publisher: HarperBusiness
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/14/2013
ISBN-13: 9780062257901
ISBN-10: 0062257900

Don't know where to put your money to ensure decent returns? You're not alone. In The Alternative Answer, author Bob Rice provides alternatives to real estate, savings accounts, and stocks and bonds. Seeking to provide investors with new ways to create diverse and risk-tolerant portfolios, Rice explains his alternative investing strategies step by step, in simple enough language that novices will feel at home. For an equally helpful but more traditional book on investing, try Andrew Tobias' The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need.

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Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/02/2013
ISBN-13: 9780525952800
ISBN-10: 0525952802

Don't come into this book expecting a business tome; though much of it is applicable to your career and job performance, it's equally applicable to your time, relationships, and goals outside of work, as these are all places where you might become complacent, stop growing, and get stuck. Using examples from calculus and athletics to marshmallows and diners, the authors explain how we get stuck, what the implications are, and how to get ourselves off the plateau and back climbing upwards again. "A stimulating read," says Financial Times.

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Publisher: Weinstein Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/26/2011
ISBN-13: 9781602861343
ISBN-10: 160286134X

As one of three co-hosts of the MSNBC television show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski knew that despite her hard work and contributions to the show's success she was getting paid much less than her colleagues -- and much less than what she felt she was worth. Though the network was in part to blame, she also recognized a pattern in her own behavior, and so Brzezinski spoke with other prominent women to see if they also consistently undervalued themselves. Her conversations (including those with money guru Suze Orman, director Nora Ephron, and presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett) reveal that they too frequently got in their own way when it came to equal pay, providing an eye-opening perspective on a problem all too many women share.

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/28/2012
ISBN-13: 9780312640231
ISBN-10: 0312640234

Fans of the television show Mad Men might appreciate this juicy and informative look at the golden age of advertising...in this case, from a woman's perspective. Award-winning creative director Jane Maas, best known for her role in the "I Love New York" campaign, started her successful career as a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather in 1964, and here she recalls what it was really like to be in advertising on Madison Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s. Though there are chapters like "The Three-Martini Lunch and Other Vices," she also addresses how she balanced motherhood and a career when most women remained at home.

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/11/2013
ISBN-13: 9780385349949
ISBN-10: 0385349947

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. For more on successful women and the support they can provide each other, try Pamela Ryckman's Stiletto Network.

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Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061697180
ISBN-10: 0061697184

Women have been in the workplace long enough, say Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, to change it to suit their needs, whether that means increasing the flexibility of their hours, negotiating effectively, or saying no without guilt. They also argue that women have more influence -- as earners and consumers -- than they realize, and should use that power to ask for what they want. Using tales from their own lives to illustrate their points, Shipman and Kay offer "pragmatic and optimistic steps" (Publishers Weekly) to help women as they progress along their chosen career paths.

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