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My Gift To YOU.

Rich Gee Group

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday. In The Graveyard Book , Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. I love Tim Ferriss’ podcast.

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5 Must-read Leadership Books for Women Leaders

HR Digest

by Ryan Holiday. Feminists and sticklers for correctness at all costs may decry some of the tactics suggested, but all is fair in the boardroom wars. Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women”. Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers”.

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Your Career Needs Many Mentors, Not Just One

Harvard Business Review

Take Hank Phillippi Ryan , an Emmy-winning investigative reporter I profiled in my book Reinventing You. She launched an award-winning side career as a mystery author after being inspired by a former intern of hers who had penned a novel. And don’t forget about personal qualities in addition to tactical skills.

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From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change

Harvard Business Review

Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers. In the process, she built a radically new life and career. Up until that point in her life and career, Leah had followed traditional measures of success. Simply put, we can practice “ planned opportunism.”

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How to Turn a Bad Day Around

Harvard Business Review

Reflect on what triggers your bad days and which tactics help to turn them around. Kate uses these same tactics when she’s having her own bad days. Darin Freitag, who manages residential and commercial projects at the general contractor RYAN Associates says that he can usually tell early on in a day when things are going wrong.

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Companies Still Couldn’t Care Less About Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

The Supermom tactic isn’t entirely about sexist expectations, however. But, as Ryan Rigney writes in Wired, its very popularity helped bring it down, in a bizarre story of obsession, conspiracy theories, raging tweets, and death threats. If you were out there conquering the world, then you could not have been here, with your family.’”