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If you want to land the career of your dreams, our career and success section has you covered with all the personal and professional advice you could ever need!
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Grant Cardone
Learn about the attitude that defines success.
Do you want to be at the top of your game? Do you want to be one step ahead? If you do, then it’s time to revamp your attitude! Because success is a state of mind and if you want to be successful, you have to think like a winner. Written for anyone who wants to maximize their full potential and seize the day, Be Obsessed or Be Average (2016) is your handbook for becoming the best.
8 minutes
Dr. C.K Bray
Best Job Ever (2016) is your guidebook for making the healthy career change you’ve always wished for.
If you’ve ever looked at the long, daunting prospect of changing careers and thought, “I wish there was a roadmap that made all of this easier,” then C.K. Bray gets it. By laying out the details of changing jobs, getting into a field, and learning a new skill set in one comprehensive guide, Bray provides a handy step-by-step guide for reaching the point where you can actually say you have the best job ever.
7 minutes
Jeremy Gutsche
Better and Faster goes beyond the boundaries of the traditional self-help book to provide you with a practical and engaging outline of highly specific tools you can use to get ahead of the competition and write your own successful future.
Operating on the principle that, if nothing else, you can always serve as a bad example, Better and Faster draws on compelling cautionary tales and vibrant success stories to craft its roadmap for cultivating opportunities, advancing your career, and understanding why transcending the “farmer mindset” and becoming a “hunter” is still vital in contemporary society. Whether you’re looking to jumpstart your career or launch a successful new business, Jeremy Gutsche’s strategy for success is sure to help you become better and faster.
10 minutes
Chris Guillebeau
Written for those who are yearning to find the career of their dreams, Born for This (2016) is your guidebook.
Chris Guillebeau knows how draining it is to feel trapped in a job that brings you neither meaning nor satisfaction. That’s why he’s crafted a step-by-step guide for pursuing your passion, ditching your dead-end job, and learning how to turn your genuine interests into a paying career.
10 minutes
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
If you’ve ever wanted to lose your uninspired nine-to-five routine and create something meaningful, Designing Your Life (2016) is your handbook for making your dream a reality.
Through the helpful combination of career advice and practical exercises, Burnette and Evans provide a step-by-step, no-nonsense roadmap for tackling the often tricky topic of crafting the life you really want to lead. By transcending the realm of traditional career counselling, Designing Your Life offers forward-thinking solutions to help you find your true calling.
11 minutes
Ryan Babineaux, John Krumboltz
Learn how your failures can actually help you get ahead.
Fail Fast, Fail Often is the textual companion to a Stanford University course of the same name. Crafted by two psychologists and career counselors, this book draws from the authors’ research on failure’s seemingly paradoxical impact on success — whether that’s for better or for worse! By unpacking our fear of failure, the authors offer insight on what we can do to relinquish these fears and embrace our mistakes.
10 minutes
Andrea Clarke
Learn how to get it in competitive shape.
We’ve all heard the phrase “survival of the fittest,” but how does this evolutionary principle play out in the workforce? How can you remain fit and competitive in an ever-evolving future? The author posits that evolution in the workforce is as integral as it was at the dawn of time; if we want to survive, we have to adapt. Future Fit (2019) is your guide for doing exactly that.
8 minutes
Rachel Hollis
A self-help guide to breaking free from your fears and uncover your inner desires to go after what you want...all without apologizing.
Do you find yourself craving more? Do you have big dreams and aspirations but are too scared to go after them? Maybe you’re scared of what others will think, or you’ve already created a family for yourself and convince yourself that you can’t possibly go after your dreams. Well, here’s where you’re wrong. It happens too often. Women fail to live up to their potential because they are too scared of what others will think, or are too fearful of falling short, of not being good enough. It’s time to stop apologizing for wanting to go after your dreams. In Girl, Stop Apologizing learn how you can adopt the necessary behaviors and skills to go after your dreams while tacking every excuse you find yourself making.
21 minutes
John C. Maxwell
Changing your mindset can make you successful.
Have you ever looked at a successful person and thought, “How do they do it?” When we look at people who appear to have their lives together, who seem to succeed at everything they do, it’s easy to assume that success must be a trait that some people have and some people don’t. But How Successful People Think (2009) proves that success is a mindset, not a personality trait. And it’s something anyone can cultivate!
13 minutes
Seth Godin
Are you Indispensable?
A typical workplace consists of two teams: management and labor. Traditionally, the management delegates tasks and the labor follows simple instructions to complete those tasks. This was an incredibly efficient way to do business when people worked in factories and their jobs didn’t require them to go above and beyond. The problem, however, is that these people were easily replaceable. And while you may not be working in a factory today, are you dispensable? What makes you different from every other employee willing to do your job? Well, today there is a third team in the workplace: the linchpins. These are the people who figure out what to do when there are no instructions to follow. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, challenge their peers, and turn each day into an art. The best part? You have what it takes to become a linchpin too - to become indispensable. As you read, you’ll learn the steps you should take to become indispensable, how to discover your inner artist, and why genuine gift-giving is key to becoming indispensable.
11 minutes
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