Women in Business

If you are a woman in business, either on your own or as a corporate player, here are some books that will interest you:

Birthing the Elephant: The Woman's Go-for-it! Guide to Overcoming the Big Challenges of Launching A Business, Abarbanel, Karin.

Goes beyond logistics to prepare women for the emotional challenges they will face, with expert advice on reshaping one's business identity, giving up the paycheck mentality, anticipating problems, and avoiding costly mistakes.

Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women's Paths to Power, Flynn, Jill.

Reveals what it really takes for any woman to succeed at the highest levels This hands-on guide is for women who are ready to transform their assumptions and join the senior ranks of American business.

Knowing your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth, Brzezinski, Mika.

Interviews a number of prominent women--including comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, and TV personality Joy Behar--to reveal how ordinary women can achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth in the modern professional world.

Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as A Lifestyle, Colligan, Victoria and Beth Schoenfeldt with Amy Swift. 

Offering exercises, questionnaires and additional resource lists scattered among success stories of women who have followed their advice, Colligan and Schoenfeldt urge readers to take action. 

Smart Women Take Risks,  Lerner, Helene. 

As CEO of Creative Expansions, Inc., Helene Lerner coaches women on how to actualize their potential, increase their self-esteem, and reach their goals. Now, inSmart Women Take Risks, she shares her powerful 6-step program, revealing how you too can take smart, strategic risks born from careful thought and intuition-and create positive change in your professional and personal life.

S.K.I.R.T.S in the Boardroom: A Woman's Survival Guide to Success in Business & Life, Evans, Marshawn.

Evans's book hopes to equip you with the strategies you need to combine confidence and compassion, style and substance, and beauty and brains for professional success.