WiB Library
The Graduate Women in Business club has created a library of books for the use of Isenberg students. Most of these books specifically address issues for women's careers and/or topics related to women in business; however, there are books that cover other topics as well. Short summaries of the 20 books available are listed below. In order to check out any of the books, please visit the Chase Career Center, and be sure to bring your Student ID.
Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, and Create Your Way to Agreement
Lee E. Miller & Jessica Miller
All day, every day, we negotiate: with our friends, spouses, children, boss, customers, and co-workers. A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating builds on women's innate skills in professional and personal situations. Drawing upon their considerable experience, as a top corporate negotiator and as an investment banker, Lee and Jessica Miller have developed proven strategies, tactics, and techniques that tap into women's abilities to convince, collaborate and create. The authors feature innovative strategies for negotiating with aggressive men and competitive women. The authors also explore the ten common mistakes women make during negotiations and how to avoid making them. In addition, the book will teach you 3 keys to successful negotiating. Whether negotiating for a raise or where to go to dinner with your boyfriend, this book shows you how to get what you want.
Advancing Women in Business--The Catalyst Guide: Best Practices from the Corporate Leaders
Catalyst, (Foreword by Sheila Wellington)
In Advancing Women in Business, Catalyst tells companies how they too can develop change initiatives that will help them retain their most valuable employees in ways that support strategic goals. Here, readers will examine the best practices such forward-thinking companies as Deloitte & Touche, J. C. Penney, and Motorola have used to better leverage the skills and intellect of women workers. They'll discover the obstacles that stand in the way of female career advancement and how to remove them. They'll gain an in-depth understanding of Catalyst's proven, systemic change process and find how they can implement one of their own. Moreover, readers will learn how they can benchmark their company's progress and what they can do to win the prestigious Catalyst Award.
Be Heard the First Time!: The Woman's Guide to Powerful Speaking
Susan D. Miller
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 Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Sheila Wellington, Betty Spence
Be Your Own Mentor becomes that mentor for you, providing through stories and eye-opening advice a step-by-step guide to advancement. How to master the art of networking, how to create opportunities to gain experience and visibility, how to manage time, how to negotiate salary, and much, much more is discussed, as you learn from leading women how they got where they are, the mistakes they feel they've made along the way, and how they created lives of achievement and satisfaction.
Carolyn 101: Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
Carolyn Kepcher, with Stephen Fenichell (Foreword by Donald Trump)
If anyone knows what to do to impress Donald Trump, it's Carolyn, his longtime employee and trusted adviser. In Carolyn 101, she reveals the secrets of her own success and provides listeners with guidance for their professional lives. She tells listeners how to: Deal with a difficult boss, Ace an interview, Ask for a raise or promotion, Maintain a healthy balance between work and home life, Spot and seize potential business opportunities, Dress for success, Be a strong team member or a team leader. Inspirational to both the recent college graduate entering the workforce for the first time as well as the seasoned employee looking to distinguish himself, Carolyn 101 will show ambitious professionals what they need to get ahead and take their careers even farther than they'd imagined.
Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World
Marie C. Wilson
Despite the common view that women already permeate every level of leadership in this country, in fact the United States ranks fifty-ninth in the world in terms of female political representation, and women lead only eight Fortune 500 companies. In this inspiring call-toaction, leading women’s advocate Marie C. Wilson explains why we need more women leading alongside men now, not just for the sake of fairness but for the larger social good. As Wilson argues, even as our nation sits on a world spinning with crises, we have barely begun to tap our most critical natural resource - women. Written with passion and insight, this handbook shows how we can all make a difference and finally close the leadership gap.
Confidential: Fortune 500 Executives Off the Record - What it Really Takes to Get to the Top
Susan DePhillips
Corporate success. Everyone wants it, but few know the secrets of achieving it. Corporate Confidential is an honest look at the unspoken truths surrounding success and failure in corporate America. Fifty senior-level executives disclose the candid realities of reaching the executive suite, including how: Refusing to play politics is professional suicide, Pursuing work/life balance will label you as a "B" player, Women unknowingly continue to sabotage their success. So controversial that some executives would only participate on the promise of anonymity, Corporate Confidential provides simple, candid answers on what it really takes to achieve success in today's corporate world.
Harvard Business Review on Women in Business
Harvard Business School Press
Today there are more women in executive and managerial positions than ever before, bringing increasing opportunities to impact major business arenas - and overcome longstanding gender biases. Exploring a wide range of issues from the unique strengths women bring to the workplace to the state of the proverbial "glass ceiling," this guide illuminates the most important factors affecting a powerful and growing sector of the workplace.
Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams, Carol Frohlinger
Her Place at the Table is a practical guide for any woman dealing with a demanding role. Drawing on extensive interviews with women leaders, the authors isolate five key challenges.
How to Run Your Business like a Girl: Successful Strategies from Entrepreneurial Women Who Made It Happen
Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin
In an informative, up-close-and-personal style, How to Run Your Business Like a Girl takes you deep into the inner workings of three successful woman-owned businesses, and through their unique stories, provides you with insight and wisdom on running your own show. So whether you're just thinking of starting your own business or you're already on your way, How to Run Your Business Like a Girl is the only book you need to guide you, inspire you, and help you make the right choices-no matter what your business dream.
Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women
Courtney Lynch, Amy Morgan, Angie Morgan
As successful consultants teaching leadership to women in the workforce, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch have seen that women face particular challenges in feeling comfortable at work—and making their environment work for them. Leading from the Front draws from the authors’ combined 18 years of training in the Marine Corps to teach women how to take control of their environments—both professionally and personally. They reveal 10 key practices that turn women into leaders and improve their decision making, focus, and performance.
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz
Networking: The term conjures up pushy executives whose goal is getting invited to "connected" social events to shmooze with VIPs and hand out business cards. This book's take on networking frankly refreshing: Help others, with the understanding that they, in turn, will help you. Eschewing naked self-interest, Keith Ferrazzi bases his proven networking tips on sensible acts of kindness, camaraderie, and generosity.
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Lois P. Frankel
In the bestselling tradition of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman comes the breakthrough book that teaches women how to stop sabotaging their careers—and start getting ahead. For every professional woman who wants to get ahead—but feels she is at an impasse—Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office comes to the rescue. When overlooked for that special assignment or promotion, many women point the finger outwardly, looking for someone else to blame. Now, Lois P. Frankel presents a different view in her empowering career primer that helps women identify ingrained habits they learned as girls that may be holding them back, such as couching statements in a question, smiling inappropriately, tilting the head while speaking, and others. Only by overcoming these self-defeating behaviors will the "nice girl" learn to leverage her power in the workplace—and claim the corner office she so richly deserves.
Pitch like a Girl: How a Woman Can Be Herself and Still Succeed
Ronna Lichtenberg
Despite steady advancement, part of the reason for women's continuing struggle for success is a very personal challenge: They feel uncomfortable doing anything that feels like self-promotion. That's why Ronna Lichtenberg, corporate veteran turned highly sought-after management consultant, built a program for women that works with their unique advantages. Starting with recent developments in brain sex research and moving through social stereotypes, Lichtenberg takes a fresh look at how women relate to work and shows them how to use their gifts to get what they want. The book includes easy-to-use tools, tips on managing communication styles, and exercises that have been honed in Lichtenberg's many workshops
Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn
Gail Evans
Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate America they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been in the last few years that even half of the Fortune 500 companies have more than one female officer. A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to play the game of business. Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career. Now, in her book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, Gail Evans reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage.
Speak like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results
Suzanne Bates
During her 20 years in broadcasting, award-winning news anchor Suzanne Bates conducted more than 10,000 interviews, during which she witnessed business leaders, politicians, and celebrities at their best and worst. Now a top CEO communication coach, Bates is renowned for her uncanny ability to transform even the shyest oratorical mouse into a public-speaking lion.
The G Quotient: Why Gay Executives are Excelling as Leaders... And What Every Manager Needs to Know
Kirk Snyder
The G Quotient identifies a management phenomenon that will forever change the way people view their professional roles in the workplace. Based on a landmark (and bound to be controversial) five-year study by Kirk Snyder, one of the nation's leading career and workplace experts at USC, The G Quotient redefines the very meaning of successful leadership for all managers. In the last ten years, across-the-board levels of employee satisfaction, workplace morale, and job engagement have plummeted in the U.S. But while many businesses are baffled by this steady decline, Snyder's research has uncovered a unique exception. Organizations and working units under the leadership of white-collar gay males are collectively experiencing 25-30 per cent higher levels of employee satisfaction, workplace morale, and job engagement-in addition to reporting greater employer loyalty and individual productivity. Empowered workers are responding to a new type of organizational leader.
The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (without Being a Bitch): Valuable Lessons, Smart Suggestions, and True Stories for Succeeding as the Chick-in-Charge
Caitlin Friedman
As women, we haven't always had the best role models at work. We've either worked for men or we've had female bosses who are, well, big bitches. Woman still don't have much of a road map right now when it comes to taking charge at the office, so the team who brought you the national bestseller The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business is drawing one for us. Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio will teach you to be powerful without being possessive, to be opinionated without being brassy, and to have a strong voice without micromanaging. You'll learn just how to own the role of queen bee in a positive way so that you can be more mentor than manager, one who leads, inspires, and motivates.
The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur
Caitlin Friedman & Kimberly Yorio
Geared toward the unique challenges faced by self-employed businesswomen, The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business offers solutions and advice for handling a range of issues, including how to write a business plan, how to secure funding, and how to hire (and fire) employees. Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio share practical information drawn from their own extensive experience in the public relations, marketing, and consulting industries. Their concise and engaging advice is explained through entertaining tips, lists, and quizzes that speak directly to women who are dreaming of starting, or have already started, their own businesses.
Office Survival Guide
Marilyn Puder-York, with Andrea B. Thompson
This insightful guide to office politics is a must-have for anyone who wants to survive--and thrive--in today's business world. Written by a corporate consultant and clinical psychologist who specializes in workplace behavior, it identifies the ten most common interpersonal problems that can make or break careers--and offers concrete strategies for dealing with them. The Office Survival Guide's two-step method shows how to respond in a variety of situations and adjust behavior for different personalities. It includes solutions for "managing up" to difficult bosses, "managing down" to troublesome subordinates, and "managing
across" to problematic peers.
What You Don't Know and Your Boss Won't Tell You: Advice from Senior Female Executives on What You Need to Succeed
Pamela F. Lenehan
To move ahead in your career you need to be concerned about many issues that are not taught in school or the company handbook. What You Don't Know and Your Boss Won't Tell You covers a wide range of topics explored candidly by experienced female executives who learned how to navigate the unspoken and often debilitating rules of corporate life. This book will show you how to actively manage your career, communicate in the language of business, find leadership opportunities and good mentors, and develop a personal style that projects confidence and competence. The book also shows how you can handle the nuances of dating, emotions, and office politics, how to understand the rigors and rules of business travel, and ways to balance work and family comfortably. Unlike other books geared toward women on how to succeed in corporate life, What You Don't Know and Your Boss Won't Tell You offers specific advice from a group of successful female executives that will help empower women to take charge of their careers, instead of letting their careers take charge of them.