Resources

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BOOKS

Business Books

Being A Leader With Courage: How To Succeed In Your C-level Position In 18 Months Or Less by Lee Eisenstaedt Based on interviews with 30 CEOs. Read Lee Eisenstaedt’s newest post on Value Drivers

Earning it: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World by Joann S. Lublin It describes leadership lessons from 52 high-level female corporate executives, based on career obstacles they overcame.

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen, professor of management at the University of California, Berkley

Reality-Based Leadership Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results by Cy Wakeman

The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade by Carter Cast ’92 MBA, Kellogg School of Management professor, venture capitalist and author.

Negotiating Compensation

Get Paid What You’re Worth: The Expert Negotiator’s Guide to Salary and Compensation by Robin L. Pinkley and Gregory B. Northcraft

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Keep Your Salary Under Wraps by Nick Corcodilos/Ask the Headhunter

Negotiating Your Salary and Perks by Wetfeet

Perks and Parachutes by John Tarrant

Search for the Perfect Job by Clyde Lowstuter

Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever

Other Interesting Books

The Boys in the Boat – Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James

You Learn by Living – Eleven Keys For A More Fulfilling Life by Eleanor Roosevelt