Business Insider with a Teenager

Business Insider with a Teenager
Author: Shirley Martin Wang
Publisher: Shirley Martin Wang
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2020-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

#1 BOOK TO LEARN HOW TO LAUNCH A BUSINESS AS A TEENAGER Shirley Martin Wang introduces a no-bulls*it step-by-step guide for teenagers to dominate the business industry before they turn 18, from landing your ultimate dream job to defying stereotypes about teenage entrepreneurs... In this book, you’ll learn about: - starting a business before age 18 - why social media influencers succeed - working legally as a teenager - business ADVICE from 7 teenage entrepreneurs — YouTubers, CEOs, and Content Creators included - how to make yourself the #1 choice for a job - what is “youth professionalism” EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE NOW! with Gen Z Entrepreneurs Jade Darmawangsa and Brennan Agranoff!

Quiet Power

Quiet Power
Author: Susan Cain
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1101629800

The monumental bestseller Quiet has been recast in a new edition that empowers introverted kids and teens Susan Cain sparked a worldwide conversation when she published Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. With her inspiring book, she permanently changed the way we see introverts and the way introverts see themselves. The original book focused on the workplace, and Susan realized that a version for and about kids was also badly needed. This book is all about kids' world—school, extracurriculars, family life, and friendship. You’ll read about actual kids who have tackled the challenges of not being extroverted and who have made a mark in their own quiet way. You’ll hear Susan Cain’s own story, and you’ll be able to make use of the tips at the end of each chapter. There’s even a guide at the end of the book for parents and teachers. This insightful, accessible, and empowering book, illustrated with amusing comic-style art, will be eye-opening to extroverts and introverts alike.

Surrounded by Idiots

Surrounded by Idiots
Author: Thomas Erikson
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1250179955

Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people. Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with – in and out of the office – based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information. Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with ‘aha!’ and ‘oh no!’ moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension. And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn’t you!

On the Clock

On the Clock
Author: Emily Guendelsberger
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0316508993

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonald's, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments. Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. Offering an up-close portrait of America's actual "essential workers," On the Clock examines the broken social safety net as well as an economy that has purposely had all the slack drained out and converted to profit. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest - and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity. On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans.

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2005
Genre: Grief
ISBN: 9780739469675

[In this book, the author] explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later - the night before New Year's Eve - the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This ... book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."--Jacket.

Monday's Not Coming

Monday's Not Coming
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062422693

"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List") From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping novel about the mystery of one teenage girl’s disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth. Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Updated Edition of the Global Bestseller, With a New Preface

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Updated Edition of the Global Bestseller, With a New Preface
Author: Herminia Ibarra
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1647825555

A new edition of the bestseller that has helped aspiring leaders worldwide advance their careers and step up to larger leadership roles. You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your "day job" to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—one of the world's foremost experts on leadership—shows how individuals at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Ibarra offers advice to: Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a wider range of stakeholders Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve Ibarra turns the usual leadership advice—generate insight about yourself through reflection and analysis of your strengths and weaknesses—on its head by arguing that you must first act and experiment your way into trying new things. The valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation—which Ibarra calls outsight—provides new and critical information on what kind of work is important to you, how you should invest your time, why and which relationships matter, and, ultimately, who you want to become. Updated with new examples and self-assessments, this book gives you the tools to start acting like a leader and advancing your career to the next level.

Friend & Foe

Friend & Foe
Author: Adam Galinsky
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030772025X

What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate with others. In FRIEND AND FOE, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hardwired to compete or cooperate, we have evolved to do both. In every relationship, from co-workers to friends to spouses to siblings we are both friends and foes. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want. Here, Galinsky and Schweitzer draw on original, cutting edge research from their own labs and from across the social sciences as well as vivid real-world examples to show how to maximize success in work and in life by deftly navigating the tension between cooperation and competition. They offer insights and advice ranging from: how to gain power and keep it, how to build trust and repair trust once it’s broken, how to diffuse workplace conflict and bias, how to find the right comparisons to motivate us and make us happier, and how to succeed in negotiations – ensuring that we achieve our own goals and satisfy those of our counterparts. Along the way, they pose and offer surprising answers to a number of perplexing puzzles: when does too much talent undermine success; why can acting less competently gain you status and authority, where do many gender differences in the workplace really come from, how can you use deception to build trust, and why do you want to go last on American Idol and in many interview situations, but make the first offer when negotiating the sale of a new car. We perform at our very best when we hold cooperation and competition in the right balance. This book is a guide for navigating our social and professional worlds by learning when to cooperate as a friend and when to compete as a foe—and how to be better at both.

The 5-Minute Guide to Emotional Intelligence

The 5-Minute Guide to Emotional Intelligence
Author: Romi Grossberg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530827442

Learn how to shut your mind off, get out of your head and embrace the art of 'gutism.' Emotional Intelligence is proving to be the greatest predictor of people's happiness and success. Cultivating Emotional Intelligence (E.I. or E.Q.) improves self-awareness, leads to more meaningful relationships and overall increases your emotional well-being. Strengthening your inner E.Q. can feel like a big undertaking, both overwhelming and time-consuming. Romi Grossberg's incredible journal-style book breaks it down in to simple 5-minute per day exercises that are straightforward and more importantly - fun! Reclaim your Inner Power.Learn how to get past perfectionism, get through procrastination and re-discover your true voice. Connect to your Source, your Inner Voice, your Gut; the Centre of your Emotions. With this inspirational new 30-day program toward Emotional Intelligence we'll address common blocks to emotional understanding and your fears of expression. Start your journey toward self-discovery with just 5 minutes of writing a day. Let your Intuition Speak. Learn how to listen. This journal is for you. No judgement; there is no right or wrong, no good or bad. There is no particular end destination. The challenge is in the doing. So do. Write. Get to know yourself. See what participants say: 'Through Writing from The Source I went from thinking, "I can't write and I have nothing to say" to finding myself writing deep and creative stories in a completely organic way. Connecting to your source is undoubtedly a great way to connect to your true self.' Kiara, UK 'This process gave me the tools to navigate the blocks that plagued my creative process and I had a blast doing them.' Tia, U.K. 'These amazing exercises were extremely helpful for me to get out of my 'never stop talking mind'. I learned the importance of surrendering to whatever comes on to the paper.' Ai, Japan As the author I have set up a FB support group for those on their journey with this book. Please feel free to join, share your obstacles and triumphs or ask questions. The FB group is the same name as the book.

Micro Business for Teens Workbook

Micro Business for Teens Workbook
Author: Carol Topp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780982924525

The Micro Business for Teens Workbook accompanies Starting a Micro Business and Running a Micro Business to help teenagers put into place what they read. The workbook is designed to be used individually or in a group setting.