Daniel Lakstins wrote a book called 30 Careers before 30: Finding Your Dream Job Faster than I Did. In the book, he lists all 30 jobs where he worked before he turned 30, ranging from a Coke shelf stocker at Coca-Cola, to a radio personality at WZPL, to an X-ray technician at a chiropractic office, [...]

In 2010, attorney Peri Pakroo wrote the sixth edition of The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide. The book is essentially a detailed checklist of issues to consider, questions to answer, and tasks to complete when launching a small business. If any item in the checklist is something you already know, you can just [...]

If you’re a sales manager, you’ll probably enjoy reading Skip Miller’s ProActive Sales Management: How to Lead, Motivate, and Stay Ahead of the Game. Here are five of the great points made in the book:

1. There’s a big difference between being a successful salesperson and being a successful sales manager. The two different job titles require two different [...]

I talked to someone who disliked the bestselling Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, and she asked me what I thought of it. I agree that it’s not a book I would recommend. Here are my thoughts:

1. No one “makes” you angry. When you can’t stand someone, it’s because your own thoughts/judgments about them are irritating [...]

As a former member of a math team in high school, I found my classes in algebra, geometry, college-level logic, and other math topics pretty interesting and generally easy. But when I hit my accounting class in my MBA program, I struggled mightily to focus my attention on a topic that felt incredibly dry and boring to me. [...]

Most business leaders are probably familiar with Stephen Covey’s bestselling 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but it’s much easier to read the book or attend a workshop than to put those lessons into practice every day.

For example, you might catch yourself saying something like, “I can’t do it” or “They make me so mad” or “I [...]

Local psychologist Priscilla Marotta self-published Power and Wisdom, which targets female professionals who are struggling to become more powerful and assertive in the workplace. If you’re a female professional who is uncomfortable with the idea of claiming more power, reaching your full potential, or rising to the top of the organizational hierarchy, then this book is [...]

Because I enjoyed Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s Who Are You Really and What Do You Want, I decided to read his most recent book The Gift. Unfortunately, I thought it was very disappointing.

The book promises to offer “the 12 greatest tools of personal growth,” some of which had already been covered in his previous book, and one [...]

In 2003, psychologist Dr. Shad Helmstetter published, “Who Are You Really and What Do You Want?” For readers who are not being true to their core identity and biggest dreams, and they’re ready to do something about it, the book offers three recommendations:

Change the way you talk to yourself. If you listen to your own [...]

In the movie “Limitless,” someone with infinite potential went straight to the stock market to make huge gains quickly. The goal of Peter Leeds’ Invest in Penny Stocks is to give you the tools that could help you do the same thing.

The book describes the Leeds Analysis system for picking which penny stocks to invest [...]