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Secrets of Six-Figure Women - Barbara Stanny Print E-mail

stannny-secretsSurprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life
Barbara Stanny
2002, 2004
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Stanny once again is learning from the people who know how to do it. She interviewed over 150 female high-earners to find out how they got where they are and how they maintain their earning power. She is deeply familiar with the sorry financial condition that many women are in today from the hundreds of talks and workshops she has given all over the country. But she points out while fewer than 20% of women earn 6 figures, the percentage of high-earning women is shooting up compared to the past, and compared to men.

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The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People - Carol Eikleberry Print E-mail
ImageCarol Eikleberry, Ph.D.
1999
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Eickleberry's recommendations for other some other work-related books

Psychologist and career counselor for 20 years, Eikleberry has put together a wonderful guide for square pegs. If you have always had trouble finding work that stimulates your creative side, or if you have had to choose between job satisfaction and making money, this is the book for you. She challenges you to begin the adventure:  to determine your own path and not follow the expectations of your family, your workplace, or your culture.

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What's Holding You Back? - Linda Austin Print E-mail

Image8 Critical Choices for Women’s Success
Linda Austin, M.D.
2000
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Austin's carefully researched and thoughtful approach is designed to help women stop taking setbacks and stalled careers in the workplace personally, and begin to understand what causes us to react in ways that undermine our ability to feel and express our ambitions. She makes a sensitive exploration of all these issues. Every chapter will be eye-opening for the woman who has been in the workplace trying live a coherent life and also deal with the many challenging aspects of that environment. This would be a great book to work through with a group of women who want to address these issues in their own careers.

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