Authors: Donna Brooks. Lynn Brooks.
Paperback, 274 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1999-03-31
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    What skills and strategies do women really need to be successful? Donna and Lynn Brooks profiled hundreds of professional women like Pat Schroeder, Jane Pauley, Toni Morrison and others less well known, but no less successful, to discover the key to their success. What they discovered is that a good education and hard work are simply not enough. They found that behind every working woman's success, whether she realizes it or not, is a common strategy essential skills that run up again and again--that lead to personal and professional fulfillment. This inspirational, thought-provoking and practical book provides women with an action plan for learning the 7 essential skills, as well as strategies for incorporating them into their daily lives. Easy-to-learn, when utilized together, these skills can propel any woman, in any type of job, at any level in the workplace, to career success. For every woman who wants to get ahead, The 7 Secrets of Successful Women is their roadmap to a successful future!...

    After carefully studying hundreds of prosperous businesswomen, coresearchers (and twin sisters) Donna Brooks and Lynn Brooks identified a handful of specific skills and practices that were common to those at the top. Their Seven Secrets of Successful Women shows how finding a mentor, increasing visibility, understanding office politics, and other such activities can be employed for personal and professional advancement....

Authors: Wendy Gamber.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 1997-04-01

Authors: Susan Miller.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
Publication Date: 2006-02-01


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    Dr. Susan Miller’s passion is to empower women with effective compelling communication skills so they can articulate and achieve their goals, communicate their needs, and master the art of “being heard” where it counts. Be Heard the First Time is an operator’s manual for oral communication and shares the seven key skills of all competent speakers, plus Dr. Miller’s proven strategies for breath and pitch control. For beginners, she shows how to focus on posture, presence, comfort level, and the message itself. For the more skilled speaker, Dr. Miller provides effective strategies for combating dry mouth, retrieving words, and answering aggressive questioning when faced with a high-level public meeting or press conference. Be Heard the First Time promises to help reticent women walk, stand, or sit powerfully, even if you feel insecure; like the sound of your voice; breathe deeply and slowly when you are anxious; say the last word of a sentence without trailing off; express your opinions, desires, and experiences clearly; vary the loudness, pitch, and duration of your voice when speaking; entertain others with stories, presentations, and tall tales; finish your statement without interruption; interview, clarify, object, debate, and negotiate powerfully; and respond assertively to criticism. Now the soft-spoken patent attorney, for example––when promoted to the CEO position––can quickly learn how to make a confident and visible entry to a conference or reception room, and how to speak quite differently than she did before her promotion. And, for those aiming for promotion, this book reveals how to “be heard the first time” so you can achieve your goals....

Authors: Betty Lehan Harragan.
Mass Market Paperback, 399 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 1989-04-24


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    A guide for women to making it in the corporate world discusses company loyalty, winning praise and recognition, sexual politics, and more. Reissue....

Authors: Marla R. Miller.
Paperback, 302 pages
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Publication Date: 2006-08-31


Reviews :

    Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family s textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she reveals; the icon appears to explain early American women s labor history while at the same time allowing it to go unexplained. Tensions of class and gender recede, and the largest artisanal trade open to early American women is obscured in the guise of domesticity.

In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the significance of women s work in the clothing trades of the early Republic. Drawing on diaries, letters, reminiscences, ledgers, and material culture, she explores the contours of working women s lives in rural New England, offering a nuanced view of their varied ranks and roles skilled and unskilled, black and white, artisanal and laboring as producers and consumers, clients and craftswomen, employers and employees. By plumbing hierarchies of power and skill, Miller explains how needlework shaped and reflected the circumstances of real women s lives, at once drawing them together and setting them apart.

The heart of the book brings into focus the entwined experiences of six women who lived in and around Hadley, Massachusetts, a thriving agricultural village nestled in a bend in the Connecticut River about halfway between the Connecticut and Vermont borders. Miller s examination of their distinct yet overlapping worlds reveals the myriad ways that the circumstances of everyday lives positioned women in relationship to one another, enlarging and limiting opportunities and shaping the trajectories of days, years, and lifetimes in ways both large and small. The Needle s Eye reveals not only how these women thought about their work, but how they thought about their world....

Authors: Diane Halpern. Fanny M. Cheung.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2008-10-24
Edition: New

Reviews :

    Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives.

• explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level women
  
• includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and more
  
• weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive and negative work-life spill over
  
• discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back, juggling), the need for social support, and the importance of cultural context

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Authors: JoAnna Nicholson.
Paperback, 147 pages
Publisher: Impact Publications
Publication Date: 2003-09-25
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Today’s job market and workplace have many unwritten rules for dressing smart and getting ahead. From deciding on what to wear at job interviews to looking professional on the job, this book identifies 101 dressing mistakes women often make that can negatively affect their careers. Discusses errors such as looking too casual, inappropriate attire for a business environment, combining the wrong colors, wearing colors that are unflattering, lacking a sense of style, using too little or too much makeup, not having a polished appearance, unfamiliarity with what styles work well with one’s body structure, buying quantity instead of quality, and much more. Includes invaluable tips on how to improve one’s appearance and get ahead in one’s career and get noticed by others. Includes 16 pages of color photographs that illustrate points the author makes about the use of style and color....

Authors: Elizabeth Clark-Lewis.
Paperback, 241 pages
Publisher: Kodansha America
Publication Date: 1996-05


Reviews :

    This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, D.C., in the early decades of this century. In Living In, Living Out, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered - but never accepted - the master-servant relationship, and recount the strategies they used to change their status from "live in" servants to daily paid workers who "lived out". Clark-Lewis describes the women's roots in the rural South, where limited prospects encouraged African American families to plan their daughters' migration to northern cities. While still very young, girls were trained to do household chores; as they got older, "traveling talk" began to prepare them to survive in the world of white employers. After an elaborate search for places to live with northern kin, girls were sent off with familiar folk rituals: they were given charms for good luck, blessings from the church, and fetishes for remembrance. With candor and passion, the women interviewed tell of adjusting to city life "up North", of being placed as live-in servants, and of the frustrations and indignities they endured as domestics. By networking on the job with laundresses and at churches and penny savers clubs, they found ways to transform the master-servant relationship into an employer-employee relationship. Clark-Lewis points out that their perseverance and courage not only improved their own lot but also transformed work life for succeeding generations of African American women. A series of in-depth vignettes about the later years of thesewomen bears poignant witness to their efforts to carve out lives of fulfillment and dignity....

Authors:
Paperback, 292 pages
Publisher: Global Partnership, LLC
Publication Date: 2008-10-15


Reviews :

    From the best-selling series Wake Up...Live the Life You Love, Wake Up Women is sure to energize every part of your life with insights from this exceptional network of women. The more than 50 life coaches, doctors, actors, authors, executives, entrepreneurs and investors represented in this book have made it their life's work to help women take their lives to the next level. For the first time, they share their most deeply personal stories to help you "take your foot off the brakes" in your health, money, career, relationships and spiritual life. Contributors include Terri Amos-Britt, Arielle Ford, Loral Langemeier and Debbie Allen....

Authors: Jack Canfield. Mark Victor Hansen. Chrissy Donnelly. Mark Donnelly.
Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: HCI
Publication Date: 2003-07-03


Reviews :

   

Whether she is a corporate executive or a factory worker, an entrepreneur or a "mompreneur," today's woman is an integral part of the workforce and the American Dream. Women have made inroads in many professions that were once the domain of only men while juggling the many demands of work and family. From the woman who manages a staff of fifty, to the mother who choreographs the comings and goings of a family of five, women are the ultimate multitaskers. This collection celebrates the diversity and special contributions of women in the world of work-their hopes, their dreams and aspirations, and their accomplishments.

This very special book also acknowledges the important and often unappreciated women in the homeplace through stories of stay-at-home moms for whom raising children was their most important task. These tales recognize the vital contributions of women who find their reward in devoting their lives to their families instead of collecting a paycheck.

Chapters include: All in a Day's Work; Balancing Work and Family; Teamwork; Special Moments, and more, and each shares the trials of working women and the special joys that achieving career dreams can bring. Readers will laugh, cry and nod in agreement as they connect with women who are not just making a living, but making a life.

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