Today’s workplace is a bonanza of advancement opportunities for those who know how to seize them—and a maze of career-ending pitfalls for those who don’t. In this practical, straightforward guide, executive coach Linda Dominguez provides proven success strategies for anyone who holds a job—in any industry. Serving as a personal coach of your own, How to Shine at Work will help you define your goals—and achieve them.

Learn how to:
- Get along in your current work environment
- Create a plan for moving ahead in your career
- Recognize options, manage change and take smart risks
- Turn any situation around and have fun doing it
- Create visibility without arrogance
- Know when it’s time to move on—and make a graceful exit

plus much more, including case studies and real-world examples along with invaluable self-tests, worksheets, and checklists to help you take control of your future—and your life.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication date: 2003
ISBN: 0071408657
Pages: 240

Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires - the most widely used method for collecting information about people’s attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources. Comprehensive and concise, Asking Questions can be used to design questionnaires for any subject area, whether administered by telephone, online, mail, in groups, or face-to-face. The book describes the design process from start to finish and is filled with illustrative examples from actual surveys.

· Determine What You Want to Be When You Grow Up (or at Least Get Older)
See how the InfoSec field has matured, and decide if this is the life for you.
· Social Engineering for Profit
Use both your people and research skills to perform reconnaissance on the InfoSec job market.
· Choose the Right Path
Learn what certifications, work experience, and education are required (or not) to land your dream job.
· There’s No Place Like Home…for a Test Lab!
Build a fully functional test lab and attack machine in your basement to fine-tune both your attack and defense skills.
· Learn the Laws of Security
Master the ten guiding principles of information security to outwit malicious hackers in the real world.
· Know Your Enemies
Identify and understand the classes of attack: denial of service, information leakage, regular file access, misinformation, special file/database access, remote arbitrary code execution, elevation of privileges.
· Feeling Vulnerable?
Navigate the dangerous waters of vulnerability disclosure from nondisclosure to full disclosure.
· Don’t Trip the Sensors
Use your l337 H4×0r skillz to assimilate into the workplace and hack the corporate ladder.
· Master Incident Response
Develop contingency plans to put out fires in the workplace without getting burned.
· Install Your Career Rootkit
Since you got there, you might as well stay there!

A commonsense approach to creating effective new strategies from ones that are proven to work From Napoleon through Jack Welch, great leaders have always “borrowed” great ideas from others. The Art of What Works cuts against the grain of today’s one-size-fits-all strategic gurus to argue that there are no intrinsically good or bad strategies–just flexible strategies that work best in given situations. Welch’s appropriation of Six Sigma from Motorola, and use of its best features to revitalize GE, is a recent example of this approach. In this insightful and practical guide, leading strategist William Duggan lays the groundwork for building new strategic frameworks by observing what works–and what doesn’t–in the real world. The Art of What Works shows business professionals how to: Recognize and adopt great ideas and strategies Modify strategically sound ideas to their own benefit Decide on a course of action–then modify it when necessary

Not Just A Living: Complete Guide to Creating a Business that Gives You a Life

By: Mark Henricks
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
ISDN: 0738206652

When should would-be entrepreneurs take the plunge? Freelance writer Henricks (Grow Your Business) has written this guide to help people decide whether they are ready to be “lifestyle entrepreneurs,” or entrepreneurs who go into business for lifestyle reasons rather than for financial rewards.

Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying, and Successful Work Life…
No Matter Who You Work With

By: Julie Jansen
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (February 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 0143036807

In I Don’t Know What I Want . . . But I Know It’s Not This, career consultant Julie Jansen won over readers with the same comforting, clear headed approach that she brings to her many Fortune 500 clients. Now she tackles a problem that affects every working person, regardless of occupation: difficult people. Whether the problem is an “abusive” boss, “toxic” coworker, or “difficult” assistant, Jansen shows how to master the eleven keys to getting along with even the most dysfunctional colleagues. Featuring self-assessment exercises designed to identify the root causes of problem behavior and smart, viable solutions and tips for managing different kinds of difficult people—from subordinates to superiors—this invaluable resource is a savvy, humane guide to reducing stress, establishing workplace harmony, and making sure that no one stands in the way of your career goals

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication date: 2003
ISBN: 0071408657
Pages: 240

Today’s workplace is a bonanza of advancement opportunities for those who know how to seize them—and a maze of career-ending pitfalls for those who don’t. In this practical, straightforward guide, executive coach Linda Dominguez provides proven success strategies for anyone who holds a job—in any industry. Serving as a personal coach of your own, How to Shine at Work will help you define your goals—and achieve them.

Learn how to:
- Get along in your current work environment
- Create a plan for moving ahead in your career
- Recognize options, manage change——and take smart risks
- Turn any situation around——and have fun doing it
- Create visibility without arrogance
- Know when it’s time to move on—and make a graceful exit

plus much more, including case studies and real-world examples along with invaluable self-tests, worksheets, and checklists to help you take control of your future—and your life.

Quick! Show Me Your Value is the first book designed specifically to help HR and training professionals confidently communicate their true value at the most senior levels of an organization. By understanding how financial leaders at all levels of an organization think, learning and performance professionals are liberated from the monster of fear of talking with these leaders and given new avenues for respect and inclusion in organizational decision making.

The same critical information top business schools teach Based on Professor Stralser’s popular seminar series, MBA in a Day? is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepreneur/small business owner, who needs to know about the “business-side” of their practice, organization or business. With comprehensive coverage of vital business topics, important concepts and proven strategies taught at top graduate schools, this handy book offers a complete business education without the hassle of enrolling in an MBA program. Divided into four sections covering management and policy; economics, finance, and accounting; marketing; and systems and processes; this straightforward guide is easy to navigate and simple to use. Packed with illustrative examples, helpful anecdotes, and real-world case studies, this commonsense guide covers everything busy professionals would learn at the very best business schools-if they only had the time.
Steven Stralser, PhD (Phoenix, AZ), is Clinical Professor and Managing Director, The Global Entrepreneurship Center at Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management and founder and CEO of The Center for Professional Development, Inc., an organization dedicated to post-graduate training and education of today’s professionals.

Those starting out in or considering a career in project management are faced with an almost endless string of questions. What experience and training do they need? What type of certification is required? What does the job consist of? And how can they best manage their careers?Your Successful Project Management Career provides all the information project management beginners need, from typical corporate hierarchy to reading requirements, developing project plans, and executing and closing the project. Readers will find important terminology clarified and will learn how project management got started, how the field has grown, and where it’s headed. There’s plenty of advice on how to make the transition from their present careers into project management, as well as a list of courses and educational programs.Project management is a rewarding — and challenging — career. And with organization like the Project Management Institute expanding their membership by 20 percent annually, it’s also a fast-growing one. Your Successful Project Management Career gives readers the tools they need to excel, and to manage the projects that are the lifeblood of any organization.