The Career Catapult
The Career Catapult

Author: Roopa Unnikrishnan

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1632659190

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Take charge of your career and leap confidently into your future: “Intriguing, insightful, useful, and very readable.” —Jon R. Katzenbach, bestselling author of The Wisdom of Teams When change is a constant and the nature of work rapidly evolves, it’s easy to become fearful and discouraged. In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan shows you how to gaze into an uncertain future and shape it to your advantage—regardless of your current position in the job hierarchy. Leaping into a revised career trajectory requires quick and purposeful movement. Roopa offers five essential disciplines that will catapult you along the fast track: Dig Deep to Soar: Examine your skills and resources to accurately assess your marketplace value Stalk Innovations and Trends: Explore the context in which you can offer your value Jolt Your Network: Use your assets, including networks that can drive significant value Prototype Possibilities: Free yourself to imagine—visualize the full array of possibilities and test-drive them Go Extreme: Recognize opportunity when your desired future is within reach—and reach for it Disruption isn’t just for tech moguls. When you dare to change the status quo and bring an innovative spirit to your own career, the sky becomes the limit!

Competencies That Catapult Careers
Competencies That Catapult Careers

Author: Adelle Dantzler

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578729428

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This easy-to-use, informative workbook contains 100 developmental strategies to obtain the knowledge, explore leading change ideas through coaching and mentoring, and lead change through career experiences. A definition of leading change and description of non-technical leading change competencies is mapped to relevant and practical education, exploration ideas, and on-the-job experiences. Assessments, checklists, templates, and plans help assess one's ability to lead change, select appropriate developmental strategies, document the experience, and plan for success. In addition, the appendix contains books, websites, and organizations to obtain leading change competencies to catapult careers.

The Career Playbook
The Career Playbook

Author: James M. Citrin

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0553446975

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Are you about to graduate and begin your job search? Or are you a young professional trying to choose the right field or looking for that perfect position that will catapult your career? Figuring out a career and getting a great job has never been more difficult. On top of that, today’s graduates are looking for not only good jobs but positions that will help them launch careers in which they can grow and prosper. But knowing what to look for and how to actually land a great job is exceptionally challenging when you’re trying to get an interview, make enough money, and position yourself for advancement. Based on an in-depth survey of thousands of graduates and young professionals, and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders—not to mention James Citrin’s decades of experience as a senior partner at the premier executive search firm Spencer Stuart—The Career Playbook offers recent graduates and aspiring young professionals actionable advice for excelling. From his practical tips on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, and negotiating compensation to strategic advice on the arc of a career, the importance of relationships, how to cultivate a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries, Citrin provides an invaluable guide to the most urgent questions that are at the heart of every person’s career deliberations. Packed with first-person advice from graduates and young professionals themselves, as well as the perspectives of seasoned CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders, and experts, such as Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, author Malcolm Gladwell, and US Navy SEALs’ Admiral Eric Olson, The Career Playbook is an essential resource for landing, launching, and thriving in your career.

Tofu Takes Time
Tofu Takes Time

Author: Helen H. Wu

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1506481507

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All good things--and foods--take time, as Lin learns in this beautifully illustrated story about patience, family, and a good home-cooked meal. CLICK CLACK WHIRRRR . . . Lin and her grandma, NaiNai, are making tofu from scratch! When NaiNai goes through each step, from blending soybeans with water to molding curd into shape, Lin gradually becomes impatient. But she soon discovers that making tofu not only takes time, but also takes the whole universe! It takes the seed from soil and sunshine, the cloth from thread and fiber, weight and space, books of words and pictures. And most of all, it takes spending lovely time with her beloved grandmother. In this charming tale by Helen H. Wu, readers will marvel at how patience brings a whole universe together in a simple dish made by a modern Chinese American family. Perfect for fans of Fry Bread, Drawn Together and Thank You, Omu.

Not Doing List
Not Doing List

Author: Alexander Bant

Publisher: Advantage Media Group

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781642252446

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This is your playbook for saying no to the right things every day so you can finally get ahead. We have a significant yes problem that's stunting our growth and career. Yes, more meetings, projects, clients, initiatives, reports, data, dashboards, collaboration, emails, notifications, and social media. Yes, make it digital, faster, and always-on. We organize. We prioritize. We delegate. We calendar. We "focus." Yet, we always feel behind. Eventually we hit a ceiling or burn out. The truth is that you, Oprah, Elon Musk, and Melinda Gates all get the same 168 hours each week. So, how do some leaders cut through and accomplish great things? Their yes-to-no ratio is just radically different from yours. They start each day by selecting all of the things they won't spend time on. This allows them to channel enormous energy into the few things that matter most. Saying no is really hard. It's high risk. Most professionals get it wrong. Your strategy to get it right is a Not Doing List (NDL). This step-by-step guide shows you how to build your NDL, message no to everyone you work with (including your boss), and train your colleagues to do the same. Not Doing List is the perfect gift for your team, colleagues, boss and mentors. Leave Not Doing List out in your office or Zoom background, as a reminder to only spend time on what's important. Complete with Not Doing Digital How to Guides that allow you to practice and implement the concepts real-time.

Catapult
Catapult

Author: Punit Dhillon

Publisher: Torpedo Publishing

Published: 2021-06-14

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781544521879

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Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations. At thirty, Punit was one of the youngest biotech CEOs in the life sciences industry, and just five years later, he became a NASDAQ CEO for a publicly traded biotech company. Punit's pioneering tenacity is shared by other extreme athletes and high-achieving corporate professionals who understand that we never truly know what we can accomplish until we push our limits. In Catapult, Punit gives you an insider's look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his twenty years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed in the business world.

Write to Influence!
Write to Influence!

Author: Carla D. Bass

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780997593020

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Write to Influence! Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More Powerful writing changes lives! You may be the best candidate -- hands down -- but if the competition is better at telling a story, you lose.Powerful writing correlates directly to success, personal and professional. With this book you will learn to: - Write to win. Make each word count and every second of the reader's time play to your advantage - Know your audience and frame the message. Critical to messaging - Banish bureaucratic blather. Infuse products with clarity, precision, and focus - Generate a resume that stands out ... for the right reasons - Retain and develop talented people. Compose powerful, effective performance appraisals to advance deserving individuals - Compose competitive submissions for contracts, grants, government requests for proposals, etc. Convince the reader you ... not someone else ... deserve this opportunity - Defend your castle/expand your empire. Make a hard-hitting case to retain or acquire resources - Create audience-friendly briefings. Find tips on text, graphics, and the delivery - Craft effective email ... polished, succinct, and likely to be read - Nail the essay for college applications. Frame an attention-grabbing essay from the opening line to its conclusion - Avoid the Dirty Dozen. Discover the most common errors in professional correspondence Attention employers! Write to Influence! is perfect for your staff! Have you read a paragraph in a report again and again ... unable to understand it? Bureaucratic blather is time consuming, frustrating, counterproductive, and the bane of today's business communication. Accurate, clear, and concise writing is the lifeblood for successful organizations ... private business; corporations; NGOs; government agencies; and the military, in particular. Apply this book to also: - Compete in large-scale award programs. Win accolades and recognition for your organization and people - Broadcast good news. Trumpet success via articles, blogs, press releases, newsletters, marking products, etc. - Extend your influence. Persuade others to support your endeavor, policy, or project. Ally with like-minded organizations - leverage their connections in a common cause - Maintain a robust web presence. Leverage each space above the fold to grab and keep the reader's attention! - Work the occasional miracle "They" say, "It can't be done." Prove them wrong! Make that influential case, Write to Influence! Choose Write to Influence! when persuasive writing is paramount to your goals.

Margaret the First
Margaret the First

Author: Danielle Dutton

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1936787369

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A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 • One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 • An Entropy Best Book of 2016 “The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First...Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment.” —Katharine Grant, The New York Times Book Review Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th–century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when "being a writer" was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was "Mad Madge," an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London—a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution—and the last for another two hundred years. Margaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new approach to imagining the life of a historical woman. "In Margaret the First, there is plenty of room for play. Dutton’s work serves to emphasize the ambiguities of archival proof, restoring historical narratives to what they have perhapsalways already been: provoking and serious fantasies,convincing reconstructions, true fictions.”—Lucy Ives, The New Yorker “Danielle Dutton engagingly embellishes the life of Margaret the First, the infamousDuchess of Newcastle–upon–Tyne.” —Vanity Fair