Professional Career Development

“It’s not what you know, but who you know.” “Show me your friends, and I’ll show you who you are.” “Your network is your net worth.” What do these statements have in common, and what do they mean to you? They highlight a fundamental truth: our identity is shaped by the relationships we build throughout our lives. They also emphasize the power and necessity of strong connections. The importance of relationships is major weather personal or professional and in this book we take a dive in how you can learn the skills of being popular.

In his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard Branson shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over 40 years in business as well as the lessons he has learned from his setbacks. In Business Stripped Bare he discusses why he took on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how he built Virgin Mobile USA into the fastest growing company in history, and how he is the only person to have built seven billion-dollar companies from scratch in seven different sectors.

Whether you're looking at the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, Career GPS has what every woman needs to achieve her career goals. An authority on career development, Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, PhD, offers valuable guidelines and essential tips for maximizing a review, networking in a relevant way, and much more.

Twice as Hard is an exploration of Black identity in the working world and a blueprint for success. Listeners will learn what obstacles limit opportunity for Black professional progress, how to understand and overcome racial stereotypes, be productive, find purpose, and, ultimately, succeed in business. Featuring tips on entrepreneurship, as well as insights from famous and successful people spanning a range of careers, this is an inspiring business book that highlights the positive progress made in recent years.

Imagine having command of the English language with enough confidence to stand before a group of people from work or school and talk with the authority you have in your field of expertise. When English is your second language, it really doesn't matter whether it's your first presentation or your 50th. Every time you step before an audience you may feel varying degrees of stage fright. It's only natural.

On a cold December night in 1991, a young boy with 17 cents in his pocket first set foot in the United States. Twenty years later that young man found himself the founder and CEO of a billion-dollar corporation. Daniel Milstein's harrowing story about how his mother, father and brother escaped the oppressive government of the USSR and immigrated to the United States and carved out a life for themselves has been described as the quintessential immigrant story of the era.

Imagine Bill Gates and Giorgio Armani started a business, then hired PT Barnum to promote it and Larry David to tell the story. The result is this book. Since starting SCOTTeVEST in 2000 - my clothing business built around tech-enabled pockets - I've been featured in thousands of major press pieces, made millions of dollars, and had the most memorable appearance of the entire ABC Shark Tank show. I started out as an unhappy lawyer, and I reinvented myself by pursuing my passions and mastering the art of passionate, personal promotion.

In this 30-day uniquely crafted interactive journal, Jennifer shares her story of how she overcame traumatic events and climbed the corporate ranks. This Journal provides inspirational quotes, blank pages and prompts that will empower you to reflect and set goals to achieve personal and professional success. These coaching prompts will help you reach within to balance your personal and professional life through: — maintaining a positive attitude and mindset — enhancing self-awareness — managing stress — achieving effective communication — handling disappointments Reach within to ...

In Five Attributes to a Successful Career, Carla Mashinski enables others to learn from her revealing, real-life career journey by combining examples from her career with practical advice. The authenticity of her examples brings to light the challenges that are faced in the workplace and how to overcome the obstacles. She has effectively translated what she has learned into a practical guide for a successful career. The successful and not-so-successful experiences she gained throughout her career provide a valuable blueprint for others to follow to avoid mistakes and achieve success. Carla ...

Do you ever feel like your heels are stuck in the career ladder and you are not achieving your full potential in your career? In My Heels Got Stuck in the Career Ladder, Carla Mashinski correlates the career ladder with those tough questions we ask ourselves throughout our career. She uses real life examples and stories with practical advice to inspire woman to succeed in their career and move up their career ladder. Unlike other professional development books, My Heels Got Stuck in the Career Ladder enables the reader to visualize a roadmap that shows how to navigate the ups and downs of ...

If you are a successful, career-driven professional, it’s likely that along with the sense of pride that comes with your unparalleled impact in your industry, you’ve also experienced stress, burnout, exhaustion. Pressure Makes Diamonds: Simple Habits for Busy Professionals to Break the Burnout Cycle is your quick, comprehensive guide to reshaping your perspective, becoming focused on how you want to move forward, and using the obstacles that have cut you down in the past to lift you up, so you can shine as the talented, multifaceted person you are purposed to be.

Breaking away from the shackles of family-run Bombay Oils Industries Ltd, Harsh Mariwala founded Marico in 1987. Today, the homegrown Marico is a leading international FMCG giant which recorded an annual turnover of over Rs 8000 crore last year. Their products, like Parachute, Nihar Naturals, Saffola, Set Wet, Livon and Mediker, are market leaders in their categories.

Nigel Travis has 40 years of experience as a leader in large and successful organisations, as well as those facing existential crisis - such as Blockbuster as it dawdled in the face of the Netflix challenge. In his 10 years as CEO and chairman of Dunkin' Brands, Travis fine-tuned his ideas about the challenge culture and perfected the practices required to build it. He argues that the best way for organisations to succeed in today's environment is to embrace challenge and encourage pushback, rather than reject them.

This paper discusses the value of professional certificates available on commercial basis, as compared to academic education programs. We attempt to answer questions like: are commercial professional certificates sufficient for designation of qualified and knowledgeable individuals? Can commercial professional certificates replace academic education in some fields? Are commercial professional certificates considered an equal education opportunity for people who missed the chance for academic education? What are the negative and positive sides of both paths, and can they be complementary to ...

Want to know how to market the impossible twice effectively? Stephen Covey (seven habits of highly effective people) communicates with a simple, but effective model to change how people operate. I have revealed this powerful secret of the process and where the model fits.

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is 24 and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the US embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.

Shoes of Prey launched in 2009. It allowed people to design their dream shoes online, get them expertly manufactured, and have them shipped to anywhere in the world within two weeks. The startup broke even at two months, hit multi-million dollar revenues in under two years, raised tens of millions in funding from top-tier investors and shipped to more than 100 countries. All the metrics pointed to huge scalability. To a huge business. To a huge success. But it didn’t succeed. In 2018 the business failed. And this is that story.

In the early years of Adams Golf, entrepreneur Barney Adams labored in obscurity. He collected six patents for his golf products, manufacturing fine equipment but enjoying no sales. Everything changed for him and his company in 1996, though, when he invented the Tight Lies fairway wood. Working as a custom fitter, his customers repeatedly asked for a club they could play from "long iron" distance, from 180 to 220 yards to the green. Adams knew the technical secret was to lower the club's center of gravity.

Are you ready to connect with a wider audience? Do you want to know the best ways to leverage social media for your business? If you haven't used social media to market your brand, products and services, you're going to love how easy it is to get started.

Let’s face it: Every entrepreneur isn’t the next Mark Zuckerberg, and every new business isn’t Uber. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t be. Venture Forward is a collection of real-world stories from innovative founders of successful businesses gathered in one place. It shows new entrepreneurs that they’re not alone in their endeavors, and they’re not destined to fail (at least, not forever).