New Business Book Summary Available for Leave Your Mark

Whether a person is entering the working world for the first time or making a dramatic career change, professional development can be both exhilarating and intimidating. In Leave Your Mark, author and fashion industry public relations executive Aliza Licht knows this well, having abandoned a potentially lucrative career in medicine in pursuit of her dream career in fashion. Licht shares her engaging and often entertaining personal story, along with an abundance of advice on how to choose, pursue, and succeed at a dream career while leveraging the power of social media to create a personal brand.

New Business Book Summary Available for Expect to Win

Professionals in today’s fluctuating work environment must take responsibility for actively and aggressively managing their careers, but most lack the practical and strategic tools to help them reach their career goals. In Expect to Win, Carla A. Harris explains how professionals can use the lessons she has learned throughout her Wall Street career to maximize their potential and climb their corporate ladders. She presents 10 strategies professionals can employ to recognize and harness their powers to overcome career challenges, reach their goals, and drive their careers.

New Summary Available for Compassionate Careers

Members of today’s young Millennial generation strive to become part of something bigger than themselves. Despite the social stigmas, family objections, and financial concerns that have typically deterred people from cause-driven work, many young people today are seeking compassionate careers in cause-focused organizations. By following the nine-step framework detailed by Jeffrey W. Pryor and Alexandra Mitchell in Compassionate Careers, young people can discover what they truly care about, explore their opportunities, build their connections, and get started in their pursuits of compassionate careers. The framework can be applied to navigate young people toward the paths that will bring meaning into both their work and personal lives.

New Summary Available for The Elements of Mentoring

Mentors are the responsible leaders in a relationship that should be mutually rewarding. The ultimate goal is to develop a protégé that is more capable, more comfortable, more confident, and better connected within the organization. Like any relationship, mentorships require planning, goal setting, reinforcement, nurturing, and regular review to ensure that both individuals are getting what they need from the partnership. In The Elements of Mentoring, W. Brad Johnson and Charles R. Ridley discuss the components of a successful mentorship, as well as the pitfalls that must be avoided to see it through to a successful end.

New Summary Available for Jumpstart Your Leadership

In Jumpstart Your Leadership, Shawn Doyle summarizes 10 key principles that will help current leaders become better leaders and help future leaders get a head start on techniques they will need to become great leaders. The principles, along with tips and techniques, are presented as “jolts” that can jumpstart efforts toward becoming authentic, motivating, and effective leaders. Leaders who apply the principles will see a striking change in results and become the boss on whose team everyone wants to be assigned.

Getting from College to Career

In Getting from College to Career, Lindsey Pollak provides 90 tips designed to help young people land the perfect job and become successful and happy in their careers. This is a modern take on career advice with tips on everything from what to do (and not do) on social media to how to dress for an interview. Pollack relates her own experiences and includes interviews with dozens of professionals.

Work Smarts

If there is anyone who knows the secret ingredients to success, it is Betty Liu. As an award-winning financial journalist and Bloomberg Television anchor, she has had the opportunity to interview billionaires, CEOs, politicians, and celebrities about what it is like at the top and how to get there. In her book Work Smarts, Liu shares advice and insights gleaned from these interviews. She offers practical tips on important job skills such as networking, asking for a raise, and negotiating. Also covered are less obvious aspects of getting ahead, such as the importance of being likeable, how to think like an entrepreneur, how to bounce back from a layoff, and how to overcome fear.

Mass Career Customization

The path to success in the corporate world looks very different than in the past. Organizational structures have changed; they have become flatter, resulting in fewer management positions. Employees’ views about work-life balance have also changed, and people need varying degrees of job flexibility at different times of their lives. One potential solution to these challenges is for organizations to shift from a rigid corporate ladder for advancement to a corporate lattice where employees can move laterally and up and down over time. In Mass Career Customization, Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg describe why this model is better than traditional approaches, like flexible working arrangements, and discuss what steps companies can take to adopt the Mass Career Customization (MCC) framework.