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Intrepid Woman: Amanda Steinberg (Founder and CEO, DailyWorth)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Amanda Steinberg (Founder and CEO, DailyWorth) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Five Steps to Becoming a Transformational Leader

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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How Transformational Leaders Manage a Really, Really Bad Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Henna Inam (a CEO Coach) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Build a Brand – Not Just a Career

Women on Business

.” How about the 37-year-old woman, pregnant with her first child, named the new CEO of a $5 billion company that last year had net profits of $1 billion. With Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo appointment, there are now 20 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. So how do you get to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company? Build a brand.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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The Impact Of Leaders On Personal Transformation

Tanveer Naseer

Most leaders aren’t CEOs. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. It can become a real drag on your career unless you deal with it. Nudge into discomfort Ginny Rometty, the CEO of IBM, is right when she says, “Growth and comfort don’t coexist.”

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.