No Fears, No Excuses

No Fears, No Excuses
Author: Larry Smith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0544663284

“Smith convincingly shows how individuals of any age and in any industry can chart a course to a great career by drawing on prior success stories.”—Publishers Weekly Over the past three decades, Professor Larry Smith has become something of a “career whisperer” for his students at the University of Waterloo. His stunning TEDx talk on finding your calling has been viewed by more than six million people and counting. This book captures the best of his advice in a one-stop roadmap for your future. Showcasing his particular mix of tough love and bracing clarity, Smith itemizes all the excuses and worries that are holding you back—and deconstructs them brilliantly. After dismantling your hidden mental obstacles, he provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to go about identifying and then pursuing your true passion. There’s no promising it will be easy, but the straight-talking, irrepressible Professor Smith buoys you with the inspiration necessary to stay the course. “Have you ever had a conversation with someone about your life that leaves you feeling so elated that you have goosebumps? This is a typical result of how I feel after chatting with Larry.”—M. Azam Javed, Tesla “Had it not been for the time I was able to spend with Professor Smith during my university years gaining his advice on career success, I would not be where I am today.”—Mike McCauley, Google “Larry Smith has hit on the new millennium’s major career issue.”—Booklist “Larry Smith has created the road map young people need to not only follow their passion but do so sensibly and with integrity.”—Gail Vaz-Oxlade, #1 bestselling author of Debt-Free Forever

Great Work, Great Career

Great Work, Great Career
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781936111107

Stephen Covey reveals how to hurdle economic disaster while staying on the path for a successful future. Here, listeners will discove.

So Good They Can't Ignore You

So Good They Can't Ignore You
Author: Cal Newport
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1455509108

In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Cal reveals that matching your job to a pre-existing passion does not matter. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it. With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to "be so good they can't ignore you," Cal Newport's clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation and eager to find a fresh new way to take control of their livelihood. He provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.

101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career

101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career
Author:
Publisher: Self Improvement Online, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Career development
ISBN: 9780979499272

In such a challenging workforce climate, "career enhancement" means many different things: procuring that first job, keeping an existing position, returning to the workforce after a long hiatus, riding the waves of unemployment, starting an entrepreneurial venture... We are fortunate to have so many collaborative authors to share expertise, impart wisdom and entertain us with relative anecdotes. In 101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career, we have compiled a thoughtful collection of 101 unique chapters from some of the industry's leading experts. Our experts are varied with impressive backgrounds and credentials from previously published authors and television personalities to coaches, business owners and heads of associations. They are all stellar educators who have shared information on topics that are personally relevant and hope to inspire and motivate their readers. Our mission in bringing to you 101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career, is that you will find chapters that speak to you on a personal level and can use what you find to enhance your career or someone else's. What Can You Learn From this Book? - You can find your passion and relaunch your career. - You can network effectively and secure your next position. - You can create a fabulous r sum and sell yourself in a difficult job-market. - You can identify and act upon opportunities for change. - You can fuel your own success. - You can learn the most effective job search strategies. And so much more! Whether you are seeking answers for yourself or working with a client on career objectives, this book offers solutions, suggestions, advice and support on a wide range of topics including: retirement, business development, career branding, difficult work environments, effective communication, goals, job hunting, leadership r sum strategies and telephone interviews. This book is a perfect tool for anyone who is looking to start a career, get ahead in their current position, returning to the workforce, starting their own business or in a role that assists others with career development.

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.

Great on the Job

Great on the Job
Author: Jodi Glickman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429923806

Great on the Job offers a much-needed "people skills" primer and masterclass in all facets of workplace communication Do you know how to ask for help at work without sounding dumb? Do you know how to get valuable and useful feedback from your colleagues? Have you mastered your professional elevator pitch so that every time you meet someone, they remember and are impressed by you? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, you need Great on the Job. In 2008, Jodi Glickman launched Great on the Job, a communications consulting firm whose distinguished client list includes Harvard Business School, Wharton, The Stern School of Business, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup. Now, Glickman's three-step training program is available in book form for the first time. With case studies, micro strategies, and example language, readers will learn communication skills that can be practiced and implemented immediately. In today's economy, it's not typically the smartest, hardest working or most technically savvy who succeed. Instead, the ability to communicate well is often the most important precursor to success in the workplace. So whether you're a star performer or a struggling novice, Great on the Job will give you the building blocks you need for every conversation you'll have at work.

HBR Guide to Changing Your Career

HBR Guide to Changing Your Career
Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633693112

Your next act starts now. You're ready for something new, but it's hard to start over. Just the idea of trading the security you have now for the unknown or throwing away the education and time you've invested in your current career can plunge you into a swirl of indecision and anxiety. But mixing things up every few years is an increasingly normal and cyclical part of a healthy work life--a way to gain new skills and stretch your existing ones by applying them to different contexts. Whether you know what you want to do next or you're still evaluating options, the HBR Guide to Changing Your Career will help you: Imagine other professional selves Identify the skills you need--and those you already possess that will transfer to another industry Assess the financial implications of the change you're considering Try out new roles without endangering your current job Explain a seemingly winding career path Pitch yourself into a new role

50 Ways to Get a Job

50 Ways to Get a Job
Author: Dev Aujla
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0143131532

A new personalized way to find the perfect job—while staying calm during the process. You are so much more than a resume or job application, but how can you communicate that to your potential employer? You need to learn to ask the right questions, stop using job sites, and start doing the work that actually counts. Based on information gained from over 400,000 individuals who have used these exercises, this book reveals career expert Dev Aujla’s tried-and-tested method for job seekers at every stage of their career. Filled with anecdotes and advice from professionals ranging from a wilderness guide to an architect, it includes quick-step exercises that help you avoid the common pitfalls of navigating a modern career. Whether you've just decided to start the hunt or you're gearing up for a big interview, 50 Ways to Get a Job will keep you poised, on-track, and motivated right up to landing your dream career.

One Big Thing

One Big Thing
Author: Phil Cooke
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159555484X

One Big Thing is about finding out what you were born to do with your life and how to use it to revolutionize your business or ministry---and change the world.

The Good Jobs Strategy

The Good Jobs Strategy
Author: Zeynep Ton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0544114442

A research-backed clarion call to CEOs and managers, making the controversial case that good, well-paying jobs are not only good for workers and for society--they're good for business, too.