By Blue Rose on Wednesday, 5 of August , 2009 at 4:16 pm
Want to know how to run your own business? Mary-Ellen Drummond will help you find the way in her book ‘A Womans Way to Incredible Success in Business’.
The stories in this book aren’t homegrown – they’re about US business-women – but they do cover a wide range of industries and professions that we do have in the country. Sales, IT, and Marketing. The book also tackles an equal number of skills. Networking, making presentations, and Closing the deal. Each lady executive narrates her story in a chapter, from toil to triumph, then gives helpful do’s and don’ts at the end of her piece. Some of them are old hash (make a list; set a goal, do an action plan). The true gems are the small things we take for granted. Do you know that making a correct, impressive entrance sets the stage for a successful deal? Or before you even pitch your product, listen first to what your customers has to say? The stories are easy-to-read, and you can pick one at your leisure without going through the whole lot. Most of them are informative, all are inspirational.
By Blue Rose on Wednesday, 5 of August , 2009 at 3:46 pm
Connie Glaser and Barbara Smalley will tell you how women find the soul of success, in this book ‘When Money Isn’t Enough.’
This book is about successful women who made it to the top of their game. But after bagging the promotion and the prize money, they quit – because they realized that there are other things in life that are more important than the four corner of thier office. Such as time with the family, more creative space for a favorite hobby, or a career shift to help the lesser privileged. The move cost them, in terms of a pay cut, a demotion, and sometimes even friendships. It’s not politically correct for women achievers in the US to turn down the next step up; it just might send the wrong signal to the male-dominated corporate leadership that women just can’t cut in the big time. Still, the women in these stories followed their hearts and are happier for it.
By Blue Rose on Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 5:52 pm
(New Ways to Manage Time, Paper, People, and the Electronic Office)
“High-tech equals less paper, faster communication, more time, and decreased stress.” That is perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the Information Age. The wireless world promised a workplace of instant decisions and more leeway for personal leisure. Instead, cell phones chased away the peace and quite, e-mail invaded free hours, and all that newfangled software demanded a lot of paperwork without paper.
Stephanie Winston ran to the rescue with this book, a bestseller since its first release in 1994. She makes one point eloquently clear: don’t throw technology out – you can’t, anyway, since it’s here to stay. Instead, make it your friend, not your foe. The organized executive can create order out of the electronic chaos – it’s just a matter of mastering the man (or woman) first; the system will follow.
The book is divided into four parts. At the top of Winston’s list is the one important corporate theory that most corporate types seems to have forgotten: The Organizing Principle. Then, she gets to the nitty-gritty: clearing out the mountain of paper work, electronic or manual; managing time; maximizing staff. Only when the human resources – and the boss himself – are in order does she gets into “Getting Organized the Electronic Way.” This is where the author advises her corporate readers on how to build one efficient management set-up out of all the high-tech devices at one’s disposal.
Winston regularly updates this book, which gets thicker every two years. No electronic or digital information eludes her grasp or her system. And with reading this book one realizes that the confusion caused by so much state-of-the-art razzle-dazzle can immediately addressed by a fantastically organized mind.
By Blue Rose on Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 3:21 pm
“What would you like to do with your money?” “Do you have enough to do with as you please?”
Financial planner Suze Orman says that the thought doesn’t have to worry us. A victim and winner of life’s ups and downs, her little book gives tons of tips on how to multiply the little that you think you have right now. The how-to’s of investing. What insurance do you need? The amount of pension money you’d need to retire comfortably. Because most of the conditions are set in the US, however, the reader would have to do her own mental juggling and occasional homework (e.g. BIR instead of the IRS, the current deficit of the SSS, etc.). Still, the principles are sound. The general ones – being responsible financially, facing our worst financial fears – are universal and apply to everyone. All in all, a thought-provoking read that needs a closer look at home.
Available in all leading bookstore.
By Blue Rose on Friday, 10 of July , 2009 at 10:24 am
This story proves the truth of the old saying, “where there’s a will, there’s a way”. It was told by the beloved educator and clergyman, the late Frank W. Gunsaulus, who began his preaching career in the stockyards region of South Chicago.
While Dr. Gunsaulus was going through college, he observe many defects in our educational system, defects which he believed that he could correct, if he were the head of a college. His deepest desire is to become the directing head of an educational institution in which young man and women would be taught to “learn by doing”.
He made up his mind to organize a new college in which he could carry out his ideas, without being handicapped by orthodox methods of education.
He needed a million dollars to put the project across. Where was he to lay his hands on so large a sum of money? That was the question that absorbed most of this ambitious young preacher’s thought.
But he couldn’t seem to make any progress. Every night he took that thought to bed with him. He got up with it every morning. He took it with him every where he went. He turned it over and over in his mind until it became a consuming obsession with him. A million dollars is a lot of money. He recognized that fact, but he also recognized the truth that the only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind.
Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that definiteness of purpose is the starting point fro which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes an animation, life, and power when backed by a burning desire to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.
He knew all these great truths, yet he did not know where, or how to lay his hands on a million dollars. The natural procedure would have been to give up and quit, by saying, “Ah, well, my idea is a good one, but I cannot do anything with it, because I never can procure the necessary million dollars.” That is exactly what the majority of people would have said, but it is not what Dr. Gunsaulus said. What he said, and what he did is so important that I now introduce him, and let him speak for himself.
”One Saturday afternoon I sat in my room thinking of ways and means of raising the money to carry out my plans. For nearly two years, I had been thinking, but I had done nothing but think!
“The time had come for action!
What do you think Dr. Gunsaulus will do to raise the million dollars?
See you all on the next chapter.
