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Improve your decision making, focus and performance as you learn to set an inspiring example, think fast on your feet, take care of your team, respond without overreacting, stay cool while dealing with crises and have the courage to achieve your goals.

"There are certain risks you might feel uncomfortable making?but calculated risks are necessary to propel you to new heights in your professional and personal development. Every time you choose security over something new, you?re missing new opportunities?and the chance to live a happier, more fulfilled life."--Publisher website (Sept. 2006).

Lichtenberg offers practical tips and exercises from her seminars and workshops to help women succeed in business and life. She addresses how they can get in touch what what they want, get support from and persuade others, talk about money with confidence, and avoid jeopardizing relationships.

The nation's most prominent businesswomen discuss their successes, revealing how they reached the top by breaking the glass ceiling along the way.

A leading expert on women and men at work and a highly sought-after speaker, Rosener argues that not only are men and women different, so are male and female managers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with top-flight executives and middle managers and the latest research on working women and organizational change, she describes the unique contribution of female professionals. Her profiles of top women managers reveal that they cope well with ambiguity,...

Drew Evans makes multimillion-dollar business deals and seduces New Yorks most beautiful women with just a smile. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? Hell tell you he has the flu, but we all know thats not really true. When Katherine Brooks is hired as the new associate at Drews fathers investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboys life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition...

Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues. photo insert.

Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire...

Beginning in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a small family jewellery shop, this novel tells of one woman's struggle to keep her family and her business together, in the face of all odds.