The Freedom Formula
HOW TO PUT SOUL IN YOUR BUSINESS
AND MONEY IN YOUR BANK
By Christine Kloser
During these demanding economic times, small business owners find it more difficult to get credit or see a major increase in credit rates due to the massive bailout of big business. Considering that small businesses represent 99.7% of all employers, it’s more important [...]
The Anatomy of Sending Emails
GETTING BACK TO THE PERSONAL BASICS
By Stacey Hanke
Over the past several weeks I’ve received numerous questions from Senior Executives on best practices for sending emails. E-mail has become the substitute for creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships. We’ve become lazy. How many of you have sent an e-mail to someone sitting next door to you or [...]
Perpetual Lateness Syndrome (pls)
IS IT REALLY A CRY FOR HELP?
By Adrian Berg
Is your lateness affecting your life? Your business? Your relationships? If so, do you brush it off as just a bad habit, or are you ready to take command of your day? If it’s the latter, the first step is to recognize that lateness is interfering with [...]
Fired but Not Finished
SEVEN MAJOR ISSUES TO CONSIDER
By Bill Lampton, Ph.D.
You can’t believe what your supervisor just said: “Our company is feeling the impact of the economic nose dive. So we’re going to have to eliminate your position, effective today. Now let’s take a minute to review your severance plan.”
Instantly, you’re in shock. A tidal wave of emotion [...]
Female Business Success
FIVE APTITUDES FOR BRANDING
By Catherine Kaputa
Ever since a certain assertive female decided she wanted to eat from a certain forbidden tree, influential women have been loved, hated, glorified, vilified and misunderstood. Our modern time is no different.
Yes, we’ve come a long way from the fifties and early sixties, when career women were viewed as [...]
Bags to Riches
Author Linda Hollander
(Celestial Arts)
Women entrepreneurs will be encouraged by the valuable tales sprinkled throughout this book. More than just a typical “how-to” business book, Linda plays out one of the most difficult aspects of starting a business–deciding to go for it.
Filled with real-life success stories, coupled with issues women care about like forming supportive relationships, [...]
Don’t Bring It To Work
Author Sylvia Lafair
(Jossey-Bass)
Bringing destructive family patterns into the workplace is more common than one might think and Lafair addresses these issues head-on in her ground-breaking book. She shows how to overcome behaviors and stop the cycle of counterproductive pattern repetition that may certainly escalate during this recession in a stress-based environment.
The importance of a person [...]
Help, I’m a knee-deep in clutter!
Author Joyce I. Anderson (AMACON)
Clothes. Mail. Dishes. Toys. Old tax forms and other papers. We all fight the battle against clutter.
Most of us promise ourselves that once we finally get a moment— sometime soon, maybe, once we have a nice long chunk of time, or better yet, after the New Year when we finally [...]
Born to Lead
Author Bill Lamond (Alpha/Penguin Group)
We know women are natural leaders. This extraordinary book helps women unleash more of their feminine genius and to champion a whole new way of life. It shows how women can use a New Feminine Principle to create a first-class life based on passion, pleasure and connectedness.
It presents four key [...]
Present like a Pro
Author Cyndi Maxey, CSP
and Kevin E. O’Connor,
CSP (St. Martin’s Press)
Do you fear speaking in public? Sales calls. Weddings. Business conferences. Weekly meetings. We are all called to speak in public.
Often, professional success and advancement depend on it. Yet many people find the experience draining or terrifying or remain unsatisfied with their own ability [...]
