Woman in Leadership

The Book Review for Women: The Fire Starter Sessions - A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms by Danielle LaPorte

 

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The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms.

Deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people.

Bold but empathetic, she reframes popular self-help and success concepts:

• Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself.
• Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.
• Screw your principles (they might be holding you back).

We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It's the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it's what leads to true fulfillment.

 

Danielle LaPorte is an inspirational speaker and business strategist. She is the creator of The Spark Kit: A Digital Experience for Entrepreneurs and co-author of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan. She writes beautifully, lustfully, and poignantly and is quite possibly the most talented and insightful writer publishing on the web. If you haven't experienced DanielleLaporte.com, you are missing the best of the web."

 

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The Book Review for Women: How Remarkable Women Lead - The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

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The remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders.

Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. It's the new "right stuff" of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive, and increasingly complex world.

The authors, McKinsey & Company consultants Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the groundbreaking model of Centered Leadership.

The book's personal stories and related insights show you the magic that happens when you put the five elements of Centered Leadership–meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and energizing–to work.

They include:

• How Alondra de la Parra built on her strengths and passions to infuse her life with meaning and make her way in the male-dominated world of orchestra conducting
• How Andrea Jung, the CEO of Avon, avoided a downward spiral when the company turned down by "firing herself" on Friday and re-emerging on Monday as the "new" turnaround CEO
• How Ruth Porat's sponsors at Morgan Stanley not only helped her grow but were also her ballast for coping with difficult personal and professional times
• How Eileen Naughton recovered after losing her dream job, landing on her feet at Google and open to a new leadership opportunity
• How Julie Coates of Woolworth's Australia makes energy key to her professional success, with reserves for her "second shift" as wife and mother

How Remarkable Women Lead is both profoundly moving and actionable. Woman or man, you'll find yourself in its pages and emerge with a practical plan for breaking through at both work and in life. - From the Hardcover edition.

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Woman in Leadership Book Review: Forbes Best Business Mistakes by Bob Sellers

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Based on the experiences of some of today's most successful men and women, Forbes Best Business Mistakes contains practical lessons that can help you learn from their personal and professional missteps.

Author Bob Sellers sat down for exclusive and revealing interviews with each and every person profiled. He shares their stories to provide valuable insights into how to turn a bad business situation into a success.

Those profiled represent what Sellers describes as a "Hall of Fame" based upon accomplishments and reputations. They include such luminaries as Wall Street guru Peter Lynch, larger-than-life media personalities Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, legendary CEO Jack Welch, PIMCO's Bill Gross, Home Depot founderArthur Blank, and other renowned businessand financial leaders. Through their inspiring stories, you'll learn how:

• Mistakes can change a career path

• Mistakes can summon creativity

• Mistakes can create opportunities

• Mistakes can force you to up your game

As Malcolm Forbes put it, "Failure is success if we learn from it." Forbes Best Business Mistakes shares the missteps of others so you can learn from them, be inspired by them, and succeed where you may not have seen opportunity before.

 

Bob Sellers is a veteran television journalist and former financial advisor. He spent years as an anchor on CNBC and Fox News Channel, and wrote business columns for Success and Gear magazines. Sellers has also contributed commentaries to Marketplace Radio. He anchors evening newscasts at the NBC affiliate in Nashville.

Forbes is the leading business magazine in the United States, with an audience of more than 5 million readers. Since 1917, Forbes's mission has been to provide access to information and insights that ensure its readers' success.

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The Book Review for Women: Women of Courage (People Who Dare Series) by Katherine Martin

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The 41 ordinary and well-known women honored in this first book in New World Library's "People Who Dare" series have shown forms of bravery that, according to editor Martin, go largely unrecognized — such as persevering in adverse circumstances, challenging tradition, showing vulnerability, fostering healing, and listening to one's heart.

Concern about her children's education impelled Patty Murray (currently U.S. Senator from Washington) to run against an incumbent and win a seat in her state senate. Acting out of a deeply felt commitment to the poor, Dr. Janelle Goetcheus, along with other physicians she recruited, founded Christ House, a renovated apartment building where seriously ill homeless patients stay and receive care.

After she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Laura Evans celebrated her survival by founding Expedition Inspiration, an organization that takes breast cancer survivors on mountain climbs.

Cora Lee Johnson's longtime dream of starting a community sewing center became a reality when she was 62 because, although poor and uneducated, she persevered by talking about the center to anyone who would listen. Men and women both will find inspiration for their own lives in these captivating stories.

 

Former Senior Editor of New Realities magazine, author and screenwriter Katherine Martin won a 1997 Blockbuster/McKnight Film Award for her script, The Cloverfields of Cannon Falls, which Demi Moore's company, Moving Pictures, is Executive Producing.

Over the last several years, Martin has written cover stories and profiles for the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Supplement and for Women's Sports & Fitness, as well as numerous articles for Ms., Parents, Parenting, Working Mother, Fit, Young Miss, Mothers Today, New Mother, Monthly Detroit, and San Francisco.

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