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Rath, Tom, and Reckmeyer, Mary. How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids.  It’s incredible that they are making sure that all of us who have learned so much through their research can also share it with young people.  Worth buying, for sure!

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Kremer, John.  1001 Ways to Market Your Books (for authors and publishers; paperback), 6th edition. Are you kidding me?  1001 ways….  And it’s true.  It’s quite the hefty book (704 pages) and it’s stunning the number of different ideas that are included.  Out of that number, any one of us can surely find at least…10 [...]

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From The Mismanagement Library of www.TheDataGrinder.com (used with permission) MICHELLE’S BUSINESS BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:  Who Moved My Peas? A Parable about Marginalized Vegans in the Workplace  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Nuns A Week’s Worth of Fashion Secrets from Women of the Cloth  Good to Grate Getting on Others’ Nerves in the [...]

Lencioni, Patrick. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. First of all, what a great title! As someone who has endured hundreds…no, make that thousands…of meetings that were deadly, the title caught my eye immediately. The content did not let me down. Lencioni’s “fable” books (e.g., The Five [...]

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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 [...]

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Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths. I cannot recommend this book enough and even though it’s not a time/paper management book per se, it is because of their research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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