Life Of E's

Jay, Joelle. The Inner Edge: The 10 Practices of Personal Leadership
This may be my favorite book of 2009 – and on into 2010.  WOW!  Dr. Joelle Jay is a master coach who has worked with executives around the country.  The insights and wisdom she has provides in this book, along with the tools available in [...]

Tags: book review, innner edge, Joelle Jay, leadership, personal development

Used with permission from Melinda Copp, who is one of the contributors to the TTPT for Writers:  www.TopTenProductivityTipsforWriters.com. 
Copyrighting your book is an important step in the process of becoming an author because it helps protect against people taking or using your work without permission. But how do you get a copyright? And when should you file for [...]

Tags: copyright, copyrighting, Melinda Copp, Writer's Sherpa, writing

I highly recommend this book:  Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want.
 It’s a must-read for all women, not just women in academia.  Order it today (and then get your friends to read it, too).  Wish I’d had it to read 25 years ago.  Let’s just say it [...]

Tags: female faculty, leadership, Linda Babcock, money, negotiation, Sara Laschever, women

Book Recommendations – Email
Hurst, Mark.  Bit Literacy:  Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload.
I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients.  Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very smart, articulate, [...]

Tags: Bit Literacy, book review, email, email management, Mark Hurst

Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More.

Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to try [...]

Tags: Bill Jensen, email, email management, email simplicity, simplicity

Sherwood, Kaitlin. Overcome Email Overload: Get Through Your Electronic Mail Faster.

I wish she would update her books, but essentially, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 hasn’t changed much with the newer versions. She has a plethora of ideas that I have put into practice. If you use Eudora, she also has a version for that software. VERY HELPFUL!

For [...]

Tags: email management, email overload, Kaitlin Sherwood

Hallowell, Edward, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life.
The title alone is probably intriguing to you – and once you read it, you will have a new perspective on whether your life is CrazyBusy and if that’s the way you want to keep it.  Hallowell, who has studied professionals [...]

Tags: book review, crazy busy, Edward Hallowell, overbooked, overstretched

Kossek, Ellen Ernst & Lautsch , Brenda A.  CEO of Me.

I read this book in preparation for a day-long workshop I was going to be doing at Michigan State University as part of a symposium on Work-Life Balance.  The first author was one of the symposium presenters. This book is fabulous and I’ve bought at least [...]

Tags: book review, Brenda A. Lautsch, CEo, Ellen Ernst Kossek

Song, Mike; Halsey, Vicki; & Burress, Tim.  The Hamster Revolution:  Stop Info-Glut–Reclaim Your Life.

Although the use of a hamster as the main character throughout this book is a tiny bit irritating, the book itself is excellent.  You just have to ignore Mr. Hamster.  These authors have done extensive research on how to increase productivity by [...]

Tags: email management, hamster revolution, Mike Song, Tim Burress, Vicki Halsey

 Braiker, Harriet. The Disease to Please.

Dr. Braiker’s first book (that I read) was The Type E Woman (for the woman who tries to be everything to everyone). Let’s just say I found a few tidbits in there for myself and for others I knew. So when this particular book came out, I bought it right [...]

Tags: book review, disease, disease to please, Harriet Braiker, people pleasers