Career Development
Personality Style at Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) Anyone
by Kate Ward

Make every workplace interaction positive and productive. Personality Style at Work outlines the four principal personality styles--Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. It explains how to determine which one describes you and shows how to use this knowledge to interact more successfully with others.
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. 
Here's the Plan: Your Practical, Tactical Guide to Advancing Your Career During Pregnancy and Parenthood
by Allyson Downey

The author combines her own experience with interviews of over fifty working mothers to provide advice and information for women seeking to balance career with pregnancy and motherhood.
Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, Do Work That Matters
by Jonathan M. Acuff

Offers advice on getting out of a rut and on the path to being awesome, explaining why the road to success in work and life has changed over the past century and how to start living and learning at any age.
Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different
by Sunny Bonnell

In this book, you'll come face-to-face with seven controversial virtues that are typically seen as ladder-burning, career-ending personality traits that - convention says -- keep mavericks, oddballs, and visionaries from getting along, getting buy-in, and getting ahead.
Standout 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work
by Marcus Buckingham

The New York Times best-selling author of StandOut builds on that first book to deliver readers a self-help guide for a new age.
The Right and Wrong Stuff : How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade
by Carter Cast

Drawing on his own experiences, as well as meticulous research, the author, a former rising star at a Fortune 100 company whose career was derailed by his attitude, shows readers how, through five defining archetypes, they can recognize blind spots that can lead to downfall and provides new ways for readers to take charge of their careers.
Getting to Like: How to Boost Your Personal and Professional Brand
by Jeremy Goldman

In the last decade alone, the face and nature of the job market has evolved dramatically. It's now a given that personal branding will have a significant impact on your professional opportunities. Getting to Like is a practical, actionable guide to anticipating and staying one step ahead of the curve--and your competition.
What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work
by Adrian Robert Gostick

The best-selling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In aim to help readers align the work they do every day, for the rest of their lives, with what truly motivates them, in a book that includes access to an online assessment and thought-provoking exercises.
10 Make-or-Break Career Moments: Navigate, Negotiate, and Communicate for Success
by Casey Fitts Hawley

Counsels tongue-tied professionals on how to identify and anticipate ten crucial communications moments, offering strategies for responding confidently in ways that will leave positive impressions on colleagues and other stakeholders.
The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity into a Career
by Jason Oberholtzer

In The Hustle Economy, we give you 25 essays from founders, writers, producers, game makers, artists, and creative types from every path who share one common trait - they are all self-made hustlers who have managed to turn their creativity into careers.
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life
by Marie Kondō

Shares stories, studies, and strategies to help readers become more productive and avoid the challenges of workplace mess.
You Haven't Hit Your Peak Yet: Uncommon Wisdom for Unleashing Your Full Potential
by Harvey Mackay

One of America’s most respected and well-connected business leadership gurus shares his decades of experience to show us how to stay relevant, fluid and on the path for success.
Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization
by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen

Think and Grow Digital teaches young talents how to align with company "seniors" without giving up their ideals. 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.
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport

A professor at Georgetown University explains how following one's talent and skills, rather than their passion, should determine a career path and offers scientific proof and case studies that show how following a dream is actually bad advice.
Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace
by Karie Willyerd

In a resource filled with advice, anecdotes, insights and recommendations, two established experts, and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning, offer evidence-based guidance and five practices to help readers start, enhance and lengthen their careers by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment.
Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
by Liz Wiseman

Explains why people are often at their best when we are doing something for the first time and lays out a plan for reclaiming and cultivating this curious, flexible, youthful mindset that the author calls "rookie smarts." 
The Cheat Code: Going Off Script to Get More, Go Faster, and Shortcut Your Way to Success
by Brian Wong

The co-founder of the Kiip mobile advertising network draws on his experiences as the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture-capitalist funding to outline dozens of simple, actionable strategies for getting ahead faster in work and life.
Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
by Andrea S Kramer

Argues that stereotypes about men, women, work, leadership, and family are to blame for the gender gap in employment and includes communication techniques that women can use to avoid the discriminatory consequences of these stereotypes.
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
by Jessica Bennett

A humorous, incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work draws on the experiences of a group of women who gather regularly to discuss gender-related frustrations at the workplace and how to handle them, profiling a range of predatory male archetypes and more.
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back From Your Next Raise, Promotion or Job
by Sally Helgesen

A leadership expert and best-selling leadership coach identify the 12 habits that hold women back as they seek to advance, showing them why what worked for them in the past might actually be sabotaging their future success.
Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life
by Wendy M. Murphy

Based on in-depth academic research, the manager's guide to finding, developing, and becoming a workplace mentor, while developing a network that benefits everyone.  Business leaders need mentors, too. In fact, the most successful CEOs seek mentors from various points of their lives from bosses, colleagues, spouses, friends, and even people who work for them. Strategic Relationships at Work explains why mentoring works, why leaders need multiple mentors, and how to identify potential mentors and proactively develop mutually beneficial relationships with them. It provides actionable advice that applies across the many stages of a career.
What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles

Newly revised and updated for 2020, a popular job-search book combines classic elements with updated tips on social media and search tactics and demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing to networking.
Make Your Mark: The Smart Nonprofit Professional's Guide to Career Mapping for Success
by Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen

Make Your Mark guides those who want to change their career route to create an empowering, re-warding, and fulfilling journey towards having a job they love. For over fifteen years talent management and staffing expert Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen has helped professionals create career maps that have dramatically changed the course of their lives with the belief that everyone deserves to have a job they love. Follow the insightful and practical steps outlined in this guide and create a unique map that will make your life soar to unprecedented heights.
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." It compares the principles of developing a strong career to the practices of building a healthy body. 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.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg

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. 
The Career Manifesto
by Mike Steib

An award-winning business leader uses his own experiences in his career as well as those of other successful business leaders to offer advice and exercises aimed at helping young professionals, entrepreneurs and creative people to bring purpose to their work and lives.
Designing Your Life
by William Burnett

The executive director of the Design Program at Stanford and the co-founder of Electronic Arts outline strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.
Happy @ 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.
Negotiating 101 
by Peter J Sander

An easy-to-understand guide to navigating the business world details such core concepts as negotiation, expense monitoring, and personnel decisions.
Rise and Grind
by Daymond John

 The best-selling author of The Power of Broke and star of Shark Tank explores the importance of courage, persistence and old-fashioned hard work in every successful business and individual, tracing the story of his own rise from obscurity while citing the examples of professionals who achieved their goals through a determined work ethic.
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