Whether you're navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you're facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need a new performance. In Performance Breakthrough Cathy Salit presents the revolutionary approach to learning and growing that she's been using for twenty years with American Express, Nike, and Chanel, among a Who's Who of other brand name clients....

How you show up in person, over email, and on social media communicates your personal brand. That brand deserves thoughtful cultivation and crafting as you shape your narrative, build your network, grow your confidence, and plot your future. Aliza Licht, a former fashion executive who successfully turned her communications expertise into a multimedia brand and consultancy, shares both personal and professional advice from her lived experiences and...

""Where do you see yourself in five years?" If this question makes you nauseous, you're not alone. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our career-and whether we even want a capital-C "career"--can be daunting and exhausting. Fortunately, there are concrete steps you can take to build a career that fits your interests, needs, and passions. Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career is filled with...

"Entrepreneur Voices on Careers shares advice, stories, strategies from more than 20 career experts to help readers thrive in corporate culture, build a steady side hustle, launch a new business, and plan their exit. This book is perfect for intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to advance or shift their career"-- Provided by publisher. Are you on the edge of a career burnout? Do you feel bored or uninspired by your business? Have you...

"Masterclass (title will change) collects Harvey's Mackay's decades of business leadership in all-new pieces of common sense, wisdom, advice, humor, and candid, invaluable advice for employees, bosses, and entrepreneurs. The book is broken up into hundreds of shorter easily digestible entries. Sections include The ABCs of Selling; Adversity can be your best friend; Humility, success make good business partners; What they didn't teach you in business...

"Professionals who perceive themselves or are perceived by others to be different often feel something prevents them from achieving the same career success as their colleagues. Many more doors are open today, but despite advances, these professionals wonder: Is the playing field truly level? Must they work twice as hard to receive opportunities? Do they have to sacrifice who they are to fit in? It is not discrimination that impedes professionals....

Talent is not a matter of status, nor a sub-component of personality, nor a commodity that can be quantified or measured. This book consists of two parts. The first offers a fertile resource (epistemological and theoretical) to consider the notion of talent, as well as notions of potential, intelligence and business skills. The second part, in turn, investigates ten major families of talents (or "Natural Operating Modes"). From Marie Curie to Walt...

A step-by-step guide to reinventing you... Are you where you want to be professionally? Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents. But to achieve this in today's competitive job market, it's almost certain that at some point you'll need to reinvent yourself professionally. Consider this book...

"In Grit to Great, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tackle a topic that is close to their hearts, one that they feel is the real secret to their own success in their careers--and in the careers of so many people they know and have met. And that is the incredible power of grit, perseverance, perspiration, determination, and sheer stick-to-it-tiveness. We are all dazzled by the notion that there are some people who get ahead, who reach the corner...