Many professional women aspire to advance their career. Yet many encounter a sea of obstacles because they don't have \"the playbook\" to navigate corporate cultures and organizational landscapes. With more than 20 years' experience in the tech industry, JJ DiGeronimo is no stranger to navigating the twists and turns of moving from entry-level positions to leadership. She's learned firsthand that securing that next position, a board seat or even starting a new initiative often requires women to enhance their relevance, establish new sponsors and expand their network. In Accelerate Your Impact: Action-based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path, JJ offers a series of proven initiatives that high impact men and women leverage to accelerate their professional paths. You'll learn: • Strategies for maneuvering the professional landscape to foster future opportunities. • Skills to minimize or even avoid common career pitfalls. • Approaches to identify and tap into your career sponsors. • Techniques to select &amp; participate on boards. Through personal anecdotes, examples and stories from those who have stumbled, fallen and succeeded, JJ shares this playbook for professional women with specific actions to maximizes their talents and make their professional goals a reality.

Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

Business & Money

DiGeronimo, JJ

Job Hunting & Careers

Smart Business Books

Failure can be a great teacher if you are willing to listen and learn its lessons. In Common Sense Is Not That Common, David Kottler offers a very frank and personal look into the ups and downs of business, offering entrepreneurs and business professionals insight into what it takes to overcome challenges and succeed. David shares 11 key principles he learned during his business career, including those gleaned during years of working alongside his father in the family's food distribution business. It's been said that a smart man learns from his mistakes while a wise man learns from the mistakes of others. In this vein, David offers readers a look at how to turn failure into opportunity. With charm, devotion, and a touch of wit, David credits his late father, whose voice echoes throughout the book, for teaching him the most important guiding principles for living one's life.

Common Sense Is Not That Common: 11 Powerful Principles to a Fuller, More Meaningful, Life

Kottler, David

Management & Leadership

We're living in a new sales economy, one that has completely changed the way our prospects and clients engage with and buy from us. The new sales economy demands modern mindsets, skill sets, and tools to succeed. In The Modern Seller, Amy Franko explains the five critical skill sets that rise above the rest. Today, sellers and sales leaders need to be: agile, entrepreneurial, holistic, social, and ambassadors. You'll learn why each one matters to sellers and clients, what it looks like in everyday sales activities, and most importantly, how you can build each one - in yourself or in your sales team. Amy combines research, real-world sales experience, stories, and specific sales strategies to help you sell more (and sell more effectively) in the new sales economy.

The Modern Seller: Sell More And Increase Your Impact In The New Sales Economy

Amy Franko

Stepping Out into Traffic

Alan Nesbitt

Three dynamic women leaders offer their perspectives on these issues as they explore what matters in people's lives and the impact each one of us can have on every person whose lives we touch. Kristin Tull explains why it's important to create a sense of purpose through personal development and continuous improvement. Lee Ann Cochran takes you on a journey to understand who you are and how to express your authentic self. And Therese Zdesar offers a glimpse at how powerful a workplace can become when leaders and team members invest time, energy and resources to forge and foster a workplace of caring.

Perspectives

Kristin Tull

Therese Zdesar

Lee Ann Cochran

Welcome to the new sales economy: the ever-changing intersection of business trends, technology, and cultural dynamics. It's disruptive. It's transformational. It's also full of opportunity. Left-field competition. Commoditization. App-like mindsets. Less loyalty. More decision makers. Faster ROI expectations. All of this has shifted what our prospects and clients need to succeed, and how they want to interact with and buy from us. This evolution in professional selling challenges everything for sales leaders and sales professionals-how to win new clients, grow existing business, and deliver sales results. In The Modern Seller, Amy Franko explains the factors behind this challenging new sales economy and its impact on customers, sellers, and leaders. She explains why it demands a modern seller: one who is a recognized differentiator, extends the value of his or her company's offerings, and is viewed by his or her clients as the competitive advantage in their success. Franko explains the Five Dimensions of the Modern Seller, which will become your new blueprint for success in modern selling. These Five Dimensions-agile, entrepreneurial, holistic, social, and ambassador-will boost by 10X the effectiveness of your sales activities and results. Through research, stories of her own personal journey, as well as anecdotes of other modern sellers, Amy offers specific and actionable strategies for sales professionals and leaders. As you become a modern seller, you'll increase your impact, and deliver top results for your clients, your organization, and yourself. Advance Praise: "The Modern Seller is filled with actionable insights and practical strategies to set you apart from competitors, make you irresistible to today's buyers and ultimately, drive more revenue. In short, YOU become the differentiator." Jill Konrath Author of More Sales Less Time &amp; SNAP Selling

Marketing & Sales

Creativity is the method of unleashing the mind to think in different ways and imagine new ideas. Its goes beyond drawing or painting pictures, building sculptures, or craft making. At its most basic level, creativity is a set of ideas which leads to something new. It spurs innovation and can be used to improve the way you think. Creativity is also the secret sauce to enhancing a company's products, services, and processes. In Conditioning Your Mind, Jennifer Yaros shatters preconceived notions about what creativity is and means. She explains it is not a talent only some people are born with and instead is an innate skill everyone possesses. Practice, she says, is the only way to nurture and grow it. Through a series of unique and divergent learning activities, you'll learn how to prepare your body, thinking, and ego to be more creative. Yaros offers tips on how to block out the noise and tap into both the left and right sides of the brain. Just as important, you will learn how to Fail ... Like a Genius. Failure is the key to creativity, if done properly. Yaros provides a three-step method to turn your failures into creative ideas and innovative solutions. By changing your approach and overcoming your fear of failure, there is no limit to what you can imagine. In the end, Conditioning Your Mind rebuilds an image of creativity-with you at the center.

Conditioning Your Mind To Fuel Creativity

Jennifer Yaros

A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats :One Man's Journey Through His Really Great, Great, Great, Great Life

Jim Karman

When Johann David Stiefel founded Stiefel Laboratories in 1847, it was a year of many great beginnings. The AMA was founded and established a standard for preliminary medical education and the degree of MD. Inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell were born. And the first U.S. postage stamps were issued. Little did anyone know at the time that a tiny European soap business would go on to survive six generations and evolve into the top dermatology company in the world. In Skin Saga, Charles Stiefel chronicles 162 years of Stiefel Laboratories-starting with its founding by his great-great-grandfather, Johann, in the town of Offenbach in the Germanic state of Hesse. He takes readers on a detailed journey of six generations of Stiefel family leadership-including his own tenure as Chairman and CEO-through its sale in July 2009 to GlaxoSmithKline for $3.6 billion, and beyond. Through interviews, first-hand accounts, written records, and stories passed down from family members and others, Stiefel provides an inside look at how the company faced adversity, overcame challenges, and evolved with the times. Skin Saga is more than just a history lesson about one company. Rather, it provides a ringside seat to how global businesses come to be-over time rather than overnight. Stiefel shares mistakes made, and offers up a reminder that success depends on dedication and perseverance of people rather than simply a breakthrough technology.

Skin Saga: How a Tiny Family Soap Business Evolved over Six Generations into the #1 Dermatology Company in the World

Charles Stiefel

What specifically makes a company elite? More importantly, how do you build and sustain an organization? Salvatore Fazzolari draws upon four decades of leadership experience to describe how extraordinary companies follow an innovative management framework to achieve and sustain elite status. In CEO Lifelines--Climb On: Exceptional Habits of Elite Companies, he outlines four foundational pillars--an exceptional strategy, superb execution capabilities, an extraordinary leadership team, and understanding the luck spread--and discusses how these pillars are expanded into the lifelines leadership framework. He further explains that the pillars and lifelines framework represent high-level principles implemented through 102 exceptional habits--the building blocks necessary to sustain an elite company. Salvatore offers a practical guide focused on helping leaders implement the exceptional habits required of elite leaders, companies, and boards of directors. Whether you are a professional manager, business leader, newly appointed CEO, CEO of a family or privately-owned company, or even an MBA student, in CEO Lifelines--Climb On, you'll learn why this management framework is all you need to get your mind focused on ascending the ultimate summit, where the air is thin and where only the elite can successfully climb.

CEO Lifelines: Climb On: Exceptional Habits of Elite Companies

Fazzolari, Salvatore D.

Business Culture

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Smart Business Books publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Smart Business Books

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Smart Business Books publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path

Common Sense Is Not That Common: 11 Powerful Principles to a Fuller, More Meaningful, Life

The Modern Seller: Sell More And Increase Your Impact In The New Sales Economy

Stepping Out into Traffic

Perspectives

The Modern Seller: Sell More And Increase Your Impact In The New Sales Economy

Conditioning Your Mind To Fuel Creativity

A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats :One Man's Journey Through His Really Great, Great, Great, Great Life

Skin Saga: How a Tiny Family Soap Business Evolved over Six Generations into the #1 Dermatology Company in the World

CEO Lifelines: Climb On: Exceptional Habits of Elite Companies