Resources
FEATURED RESOURCE
Argentum Strategy Group is a marketing consulting firm that helps clients add a strategic marketing function to their company’s arsenal without adding headcount. Argentum does this by offering their services via a unique Timeshare VP of Marketing® model.
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
WEBSITES
Career Inspiration
Consulting/Business Services
Business.com
Insight to Action, Inc.
MyDignitas.com
Mysel Consulting
Strong Suit – Jeff Hyman
Value Drivers, LLC
Leadership Skills
Marketing Consulting
Argentum Strategy Group, Susan A. Silver, President
Great Lakes GrowthWorks, Strategy and Innovation Consulting Firm
Heidi Forman, Marketing Strategy Consultant
People Performance Management
Marketing Innovators International, Inc.
Personal Branding
Parlay Communications, Ltd.
JobHero.com
Relocation Sources
Salary Comparisons
Glassdoor.com
Salary.com
PayScale.com