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.

High Growth Handbook

High Growth Handbook
Author: Elad Gil
Publisher: Stripe Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1953953379

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

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!

The Making of a Manager

The Making of a Manager
Author: Julie Zhuo
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735219567

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing. That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She stared at a long list of logistics--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties. How was she supposed to spin teamwork into value? How could she be a good steward of her reports' careers? What was the secret to leading with confidence in new and unexpected situations? Now, having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager. The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed everyday examples and transformative insights, including: * How to tell a great manager from an average manager (illustrations included) * When you should look past an awkward interview and hire someone anyway * How to build trust with your reports through not being a boss * Where to look when you lose faith and lack the answers Whether you're new to the job, a veteran leader, or looking to be promoted, this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.

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).

The Sania Dimension

The Sania Dimension
Author: Deborah Amelia
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149179965X

In this science fiction, the reader is introduced to Ava, a Light Being from another dimension. While conducting a guiding mission on Earth she compromises her principles and must redeem herself by returning to Earth to a lifetime she once lived centuries earlier. Ava is faced with the challenges of learning to exist as a human again while still possessing advanced intellectual and existential knowledge gained from her Light Being existence. She is faced with the challenge of juggling her identity while living within a dual reality wondering if and when she will be able to return to Sania. The reader is given a glimpse into the human experience at a deeper level recognizing how daily life can affect us in ways we never imagined. The character takes us on a journey of ups and downs attempting to re-assimilate into her human self while remaining undetected. The author shows the reader what its like for an outsider looking in and is given a peek into the experiences seeded by understanding metaphysics, laws of attraction, and existential theory, all playing a crucial yet hidden role in creating the lives we imagine.