How Prepared Are You to Run a Business?
March 8, 2010 by Isabel Isidro
Filed under Book Summaries, Briefs
Are you prepared to run a business? This is the question that Linda J. Lord’s new book “The Pitch: Business Lessons Learned on the Soccer Field” explores. Making the decision to start a business is just the first step; the real test is how well you can run the business. Your level of preparedness – mentally, intellectually and emotionally — can spell the difference between the success and failure of your business.
10 Ways to Become a Girl on Top
November 11, 2009 by Contributor
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She knows how to work a room, she’s always impeccably dressed, and no matter how hard you might try you just can’t seem to break her confidence. Hate her or love her, everyone wants to be her. Here are 10 tactics to achieving your own Girl on Top status
Learning from Martha: 10 Rules for Starting a Business
September 23, 2009 by Lyve Alexis Pleshette
Filed under Book Summaries, Success Tips
What does it take to really need to successfully start a business? Martha Stewart, one of the most successful women in business today, lists down the essential elements to start an entrepreneurial venture in her book “The Martha Rules.”
Secrets of Six-Figure Women
August 6, 2009 by Isabel Isidro
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Do you have what it takes to achieve financial success?
Barbara Stanny in her book “Secrets of Six Figure Women” explores the strategies that financially successful women – from entrepreneurs to corporate executives to freelancers and part-timers — employ to reach their highest income potential.
According to the author, here are the eight secrets of six-figure women:
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11 Simple Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurship
July 25, 2008 by admin
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Whether you own a small business, run a large corporation, or work for someone else, Beat the System provides proven, real-world advice for building an entrepreneurial culture in your entire organization, your department, or even in your individual position.
Real You: Business Advice to Women Entrepreneurs
June 25, 2008 by Isabel Isidro
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In her book Real You Incorporated, Kaira Sturdivant Rouda offers business advice to women entrepreneurs, including work-life balance, and celebrates their natural entrepreneurial bent.
Stay at Home Moms: Getting Back on the Career Track
July 3, 2007 by admin
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Would you like to return to the work world but are concerned about how to find an opportunity that will allow you to fulfill your family or other non-work obligations, nervous about how to “market yourself” to potential employers, or unsure about what type of work you want to do?
by Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin
Authors of “Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay at Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work”
Seven Things Every Smart Business Needs to Know About Boomer Women
September 3, 2006 by admin
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The savvy marketer who takes the time to understand the Boomer women and to meet her needs will find that targeting the Baby Boomer woman is well worth the effort
Adapted from BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer — The Baby Boomer Woman
by Mary Brown and Carol Orsbom, Ph.D.
8 Secrets of the Super Successful
August 6, 2006 by Lyve Alexis Pleshette
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The book “There’s Always Room at the Top: 8 Secrets of the Super Successful” by Alan S. Becker explores the secrets to success of some of the most well known people. The book teaches that personal, professional and financial fulfillment is achieved through recognizing life-altering opportunities and taking the risks associated with them.
Goal-Free Living: How to Have the Life You Want NOW!
July 3, 2006 by Lyve Alexis Pleshette
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The book by Stephen M. Shapiro shows us that exciting opportunities and new possibilities exist all around us, and that the “life we really want” is already here!