Earn What You're Worth: A Widely Sophisticated Approach to Investing In Your Career-and Yourself

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settle for less.

Nicole Williams, the author of Wildly Sophisticated, knows that the real key to success isn't saving more money... it's making more money. Earn What You're Worth shows working women how to up their earning power--by using their unique skills and abilities to build a rewarding, lucrative career.

Readers will learn to:

- Learn the difference between going into debt--and investing in their career
- Sell themselves at work--without selling their soul
- Discover their individual gifts and talents--and use them to get a raise
- Value what's most important to them--and dump bad financial habits
- Decide what they really want out of their career--and get it

Once women get over their fears of dealing with cold, hard cash, they'll have the confidence to ask for--and get--what they deserve. Crammed with useful information, uncommon advice, inspiring stories, and insider secrets to success, Earn What You're Worth will motivate women to invest in the most important stock of all...themselves.

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For any woman with a job........2007-06-20

This book has very practical advice on how to improve your chance of sucess in the business world, and how to become more financially successful.

There is no content on investing or particulars of fiancnes, rather the author approaches the idea of investing in yourself as the msot important way to improve your success, in all aspects of your life.

A specific example is "the latte factor." She writes taht she isn't ehre to tell anyone they need to stop drinking alt tes. Instead, she urges each of us to deicde why we are having our lattes, is it beacuse everyone else is getting one? Or do we get out of bed inteh mroing only because of the latte we know awaits us? If it's the latter, then by all means make that investmetn in yourself. If its the former, perhops yo ucan cut that latte out of your habit and have room in your budget for something more important.

I read this book twice, and the first time all of her career advice I applied to my relationship (it was all I could focus on at the time). But later, when I re-read it, I applied thea dvice to my career and job hunt and personal finance, and feel that I am actively working towards my goals. It helped me see and create the big picture so I can then work towards acheiving teh various aspects of my life goals.

Great Advice for Career Women!.......2007-06-06

I recently followed a friend's advice and purchased Nicole William's book Earn What You're Worth: A Wildly Sophisticated Approach to Investing In Your Career-and Yourself. Upon reading the first chapter, I knew I had made the right decision. The book is full of valuable knowledge and career advice that I will definitely never forget. Her sections about discovering how you are unique and identifying what you value really stuck out in my mind. The book made me aware of several essential elements of career success and I have learned to focus on what I really want and proactively ask for what I'm worth. Two thumbs up!

Highly Motivating and Entertaining.......2007-03-30

With her breezy, girlfriend-next-door tone, Nicole Williams, author of "Wildly Sophisticated," takes readers on a journey of financial self exploration. With anecdotes from female entrepreneurs like herself, she encourages women to both explore and challenge their preconceived about success and money - particularly those which come from childhood. Williams also discusses our various "money relationships," from bankers and accountants to employers and even friends and family, as well as how we should approach them all.

Unlike other authors who challenge readers to save more and spend less, Williams encourages her audience to actually earn more. She does this by focusing on the concept of self worth (both tangible and intangible), our true values, and how that all translates into business success - or lack thereof. Highly motivating and entertaining.

Densely Packed with Career Wisdom.......2006-07-23

Put down the highligher. Every page in this book is packed with amazing words that promise to jump start you into a bigger salary and a true sense of self-worth. This book is not just for young career-minded women. It truly is for anyone wanting more for themselves. It reads effortlessly and has a genuine tone. Who ever thought a book of this genre could be a page turner? Incredible wisdom...makes me think Ms. Williams is in her 90s not her 30s. :)

Investing in Myself.......2005-01-14

I love the idea of investing in yourself, even if it means going into debt for a little bit - I'm a commodity worth investing in and this book has given me the courage to see that. A completely different way of looking at career success and money.

What's Your Life Worth? Health Care Rationing... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?

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What's Your Life Worth? Health Care Rationing... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?
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Look Beyond What You See: Finding Your Worth in the Eyes of God (Inner Beauty Series, 3)

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Lisa Bevere
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Learn how to achieve sustained business growth even in the toughest economic times. Author A.T. Kearney surveyed some 29,000 global companies over fourteen years and studied more than eighty companies in depth, in order to determine how the best companies continue to grow in good times and bad. Based on this extensive research and on the best practices of the most successful companies, Stretch! presents a practical, step-by-step plan for positive organic growth.

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The secrets of sustained business growth-from the experts at A.T. Kearney

In Stretch!, experts from consulting firm A.T. Kearney show business leaders how to grow their businesses even in tough times. CEOs worldwide confess that they achieve, on average, just fifty percent of their growth targets. It's not because they can't grow, it's because they've forgotten how. Based on in-depth case studies and analysis of some 25,000 global companies over 14 years, Stretch! combines hard data, fresh ideas, and practical guidance on achieving real growth in any economy.

Graeme K. Deans (Toronto, Canada) is a Vice President of A.T. Kearney and leads the company's Global Strategy Practice. Dr. Fritz Kroeger (Berlin, Germany) is a Vice President of A.T. Kearney and a senior strategy consultant for clients worldwide.

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One of the worst business books I have read.......2004-09-11

Don't even waste your time on this book...it's written in an oversimplistic way and offers nothing new!

Back To The Basics Of Growth.......2004-01-23

Stretch! is an excellent roadmap for business executives to return their companies to an upward growth trajectory.
Written in an engaging style, the book takes the premise
that any company, in any kind of financial or competitive situation, can achieve and sustain profitable growth.
Deans and Kroeger use insightful case studies to
illustrate their four-stage growth model, and emphasize
that strong execution, not strategy, separates the winners
from the losers. Highly recommended!

Common-sense approach, rich examples make this a great read.......2004-01-22

Forget the jargon and fad theories. This book hits straight at the heart of today's biggest barriers to growth--and offers well-reasoned, straightforward advice on how companies can get back on track. The four-step approach, which is the core of the book, pinpoints growth opportunities in every aspect of how a company functions. The best part, however, is the examples that the authors pull from all industries, around the world. They not only make it an interesting read, they hammer home just how "doable" everything is.

Stretch! How great companies grow in good times and bad [A book review from: Journal of Engineering and Technology Management]

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Stretch! How great companies grow in good times and bad.(related article: Metro: An Operations Powerhouse)(related article: Loblaw's: Stretching the Limits): ... article from: Ivey Business Journal Online
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This digital document is an article from Ivey Business Journal Online, published by University of Western Ontario on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: May 1, 2004
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Core and Periphery : A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water (Water Resources Management Ser., No. 5)

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Core and Periphery : A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water (Water Resources Management Ser., No. 5)
Asit K.; Kolars, John; Murakami, Masahiro; Waterbury, John; Wolf, Aaron Biswas
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Why can’t teenagers get out of bed in the morning? How do bees tell the time? Why do some plants open and close their flowers at the same time each day? Why do so many people suffer the misery of jet lag? In this fascinating book, Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman explain the significance of the biological clock, showing how it has played an essential role in evolution and why it continues to play a vitally important role in all living organisms.

The authors tell us that biological clocks are embedded in our genes and reset at sunrise and sunset each day to link astronomical time with an organism’s internal time. They discuss how scientists are working out the clockwork mechanisms and what governs them, and they describe how organisms measure different intervals of time, how they are adapted to various cycles, and how light coordinates the time within to the external world. They review problems that can be caused by malfunctioning biological clocks—including jet lag, seasonal affective disorder, and depression. And they warn that although new drugs are being promoted to allow us to stay awake for longer periods, a 24/7 lifestyle can have a harmful impact on our health, both as individuals and as a society.

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A must-read.......2005-06-18

A comprehensive and fascinating book about the last few decades of chronobiological research. Are you an "early bird" or a "night owl"? Do you want to know how to deal with jet lag and winter blues? Are you interested in biological rhythms from a scientific or professional point of view? The you have to read this book immediately. It contains nearly everything you always wanted to know about rhythms but were afraid to ask. It's a must-read for medical professionals, psychologists, teachers, trainers and consultants of all kind.

A must-read.......2005-06-18

A comprehensive and fascinating book about the last few decades of chronobiological research. Are you a "early bird" or a "night owl"? Do you want to know how to deal with jet lag and winter blues? Are you interested in biological rhythms from a scientific or professional point of view? The you have to read this book immediately. It contains nearly everything you always wanted to know about rhythms but were afraid to ask. It's a must-read for medical professionals, psychologists, teachers, trainers and consultants of all kind.

The Protein Tick and the RNA Tock.......2005-01-11

What do the disasters of the _Titanic_, the _Exxon Valdez_, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the Union Carbide plant explosion in Bhopal all have in common? They involved human error, and they all happened when the humans ought, by biological fiat, to have been sleeping. We are ruled by our clocks now, but even in the unnatural world we have made for ourselves, we cannot get away from the natural clocks that our cells expect us to follow. Like almost all living things in the planet, from plants to bacteria to birds, we have "a biological clock that was first set ticking more than three billion years ago." In _Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing_ (Yale University Press), Russell G. Foster, a professor of molecular neuroscience, and Leon Kreitzman, a writer and broadcaster, have examined the investigations of a relatively new science, chronobiology, to show just how much sway natural time has over us and other organisms. It isn't just a tale of sleepy people in control making bad judgments, although cognition and prudence do have their daily cycles. We tend to have babies (natural birthing) in the early mornings, and heart attacks in the later morning, and lovemaking around 10 p.m. Physical coordination, liver metabolism, body temperature, heart rate, kidney function, and much more all are paying attention to the biological clock, and when we jump time zones or do shift work, we do so at our peril.

Many of these cycles are specifically examined here, along with the historical hunt for the biological roots of the rhythmicity. A couple of the chapters dealing with the dance of molecules will be daunting for those uninitiated into the basics of cellular biology, but they do well to show the intricacies of the molecular mechanisms and the depth of work that has been done in this field. There are not just daily rhythms, but annual ones. Migratory birds the whole world over know when to start their travels north or south; they do so not by counting the days or paying attention to when the weather changes, but by regulation from the annual changes of lengths of day and night. Plants cannot migrate, but they are regulated by day length, too; wheat flowers, for instance, when the days get long enough, and barley does so when the days start to shorten. The almost universal attention that species pay to daily or annual changes indicates that success comes from being able to predict when winter, or summer, or nightfall, or other events, are coming, and from timing leaf drop, coitus, or swimming upstream to meet the optimum times and conditions. Evolution has selected the species that are best able to predict the future.

In the famous experiments where humans lived in caves or other light-deprived environments, with no capacity to tell time, they eventually locked into their own cycles of a little more than 24 hours. Like most creatures, we have an internal daily rhythm which is not exact, but only approximate; the day night cycle (or for us, such cues as an alarm clock) "entrain" the internal cycle and keep it synchronous with the rest of the creatures on Earth. There are mutant rats and flies who have cycles that are too long or too short, and researchers have productively transplanted brain parts to find out where the actual clocks are. Chronobiologists (a term that even some chronobiologists think of as pompous) are not just doing ivory tower investigations. There are many practical implications of this sort of work. Breast cancers, for example, have an annual pattern of increased and decreased growths, and so searching for the cancer would be more productive at certain times of the year. Chemotherapy for cancers involves poisoning the cancer cells with drugs that are also poisons for regular cells, but cancer cells, with their out-of-control growth, lose their rhythm of growth and division that normal cells retain. Thus it is possible that administering anti-cancer drugs at the time of day when they will interfere the least with the normal cells could reduce the worrisome side effects of the drugs. Asthma is most prevalent at night; medicine for it would be best taken in higher doses at nighttime, rather than every eight hours. The timing of doses in some cases may be as important as what the doses contain. The authors have given a detailed but readable introduction into a new science that will have increasing importance for human health as more is learned.

Body Clocks vs. Mechanical Clocks.......2004-09-23

For the first few million years of life, time was measured by sunrise and sunset. Now we have switched to clocks. But the biological clocks that are within all of us don't know how to read clocks. Breakfast, lunch and dinner occur at standard times. Tooth pain is lowest after lunch; proof reading and sprint swimming are best performed in the evening; labour pains more often begin at night and most natural births occur in the early hours; sudden cardiac death is more likely in the morning (from Chapter 1).

The study of biological clocks has gone on for a long time, but as a science is a fairly recent development. Research in just the last few years has dramatically altered the way scientists view them. This book is a snapshot of the way the science appears right now. The pair who wrote the book are a leading researcher in the field and a professional science writer. This is a good combination that gives good enjoyable writing combined with accurate reporting.

Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

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Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
Russell G. Kreitzman & Leon Foster
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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