Ask a Manager

Ask a Manager
Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0399181822

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Work Won't Love You Back

Work Won't Love You Back
Author: Sarah Jaffe
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1568589387

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Cool Careers Without College for People Who Love Planning and Organizing

Cool Careers Without College for People Who Love Planning and Organizing
Author: Rebecca Pelos
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508175403

Whether a reader has aspirations to be the next Martha Stewart or just loves creating artistic tabs for school notebooks, this guide gives students all the tools they need to jump into a career that involves planning and organizing. Each chapter takes the reader through a specific career path, providing him or her with first-person accounts from professionals in the field, websites, books, and organizations that can provide even more guidance. Every career path can be achieved without college, which is great news for students who don�t want to deal with student loans!

Radical Candor

Radical Candor
Author: Kim Malone Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1760553026

Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

Her New Best Friend

Her New Best Friend
Author: Penny Batchelor
Publisher: Embla Books
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-05-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471414779

'Unputdownable... I just couldn't put this book down. It had me hooked all the way through.' Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars Mum-of-two Audrey only looks away from the stroller for a moment, as her daughter runs off across the park. But the next thing she knows, her baby son is rolling towards the lake. When Claire steps in to prevent disaster, Audrey is beyond grateful. She can't imagine what would have happened if Claire hadn't been there that day. As Claire and Audrey grow closer, Audrey couldn't ask for more from her new best friend. But when tragedy strikes for a second time, Audrey discovers that Claire wasn't who she thought she was... and now it's far too late... A totally addictive and page-turning psychological thriller with a breath-taking twist. Fans of K.L. Slater, Shalini Boland and Sue Watson will be gripped from the very first page. Readers and authors are gripped by Her New Best Friend: 'Once I started reading I couldn't stop... impossible to put down... Catches you from the first page and keeps the exciting nerve jangling, controlling reading right up to the very end!' Reader review, 5 stars 'Gripping... It had me reading late into the night' Reader review, 5 stars 'Incredible... Just when you think you know what's going to happen next... !' Reader review, 5 stars 'A twisty and pacey thriller' Philippa East, author of Little White Lies 'A twisty look at obsession and motherhood. You're in for a treat!' Louise Mumford, author of Sleepless 'Full of twists and turns and I found myself unable to put it down' Reader review, 5 stars

My Life

My Life
Author: Dick Craig
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1642997250

We all have a story to tell! They are all unique. No two are the same. Each is special; they are full of memories, of learning experiences, of things encountered along the way""some tragic and difficult, some fascinating and exciting. Certainly each story is valuable to someone. Life stories are full of mentors, both good and bad, people with tremendous influence who perhaps changed the pathway of one's life. I have had many mentors over the years. You will read about them! My Life, Does It Really Matter is my story. I loved writing it. As the distant memories came together in my mind, the details took shape, and often I was taken back to "the moment," and the emotions took over. As I wrote my story, I realized that there was a thread that wound through the years that held me together and brought me along the way. You can have the same thread! It will change your life! Insight One day at Starbucks, Dick Craig told his "career story" to some of us friends. An underlying theme in his life story stood out. God was working in Dick Craig's life from way back then and clearly all the way through. The truth shouts out. So now Dick had captured the story on paper; hence, family, friends, and everyone else can grasp that careful involvement. Dick's story reveals many lessons. From a distance, we also get an insight. "Many things happen for a reason and a purpose," even when we don't see it at the time. Our heavenly Parent is nurturing us for eternity. Many readers will have felt God's involvement in their life. If not, this book may now awaken their awareness. - Dennis O'Neill, Business Growth Coach, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada

Becoming Beautiful

Becoming Beautiful
Author: Kari Romeo
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982211474

This book is Karis story, as well as a workbook for the reader to tackle their personal limiting beliefs. Each chapter explores how the author developed debilitating beliefs that plagued her throughout her life. She identifies strategies to overcome these beliefs and invites the reader through the power of questions to explore the subconscious beliefs that might be holding them back. The reader will find a few questions at the end of each chapter, which invite them to explore their personal history to discover beliefs they may have inadvertently formed. By bringing these subconscious beliefs to the light of awareness, the reader will have the opportunity to discover if these beliefs are still serving them today. Karis story as well as this personal exploration can help uncover the readers inner light, creating an expression of outer beauty. Each one of us holds within a blueprint of perfection, potential, and purpose. Kari has given us all an incredible gift with Becoming Beautiful. We now have a tool to find this unique strength from within, from where each of us can shine brighter than ever before (Jon Berghoff, president, FLI). Kari brings a powerful message to the world through her transformative journey. Through a process of questions, journaling, meditation, and self-study, she uncovered old beliefs that no longer served her. By courageously exploring these beliefs and how they developed, she was able to identify profound life lessons that can benefit all of us. Through gratitude and self-love, Kari now shines a light for you to let go of your limiting beliefs and unlock your full potential (Hal Elrod, author of the no. 1 best-selling book, The Miracle Morning).

GET LEADERized

GET LEADERized
Author: Kishore Borra
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1685866956

In this stunning new book, Mr. Kishore Borra has shared practical leadership strategies for work and life that guided his journey from an impecunious village boy to the head of Indian operations of an Information Technology company. A few chapters of this book are part memoir, part leadership practices that served him well over the years. This book centers on his experience as EnergyTech Global’s first employee in India and the managing director and his vantage point as a massive student, practitioner and evangelist of leadership as part of the John Maxwell Team. Combining leadership wisdom with insightful and entertaining real-life stories, Kishore unveils the secrets of building great teams and putting your leadership into high gear. This book will help you increase your influence as a leader and fully engage and create magic with your teams to drive remarkable results. Some of the profound leadership lessons in this book include: • Inside out leadership • The new leadership currency • Your greatest separator • The new receiving for a leader • Five amazing leadership tools