Books By WIN Summit 2023 Speakers


 
 
Embrace the Work, Love Your Career

In this workbook for women who want to get more out of their careers, you’re given a combination of accessible advice, time-tested strategies, creative prompts, and thoughtful exercises that’ll help you both fall in love with your work and design a career action plan grounded in confidence and intentionality.

By Fran Hauser

 
Radical Radiance: 12 Weeks of Self-Love Rituals

We can all think of someone who radiates beauty, vibrancy, and confidence that emanates from a lit-from-within quality. But what exactly is this irresistible magnetism, and how can you develop it within yourself to manifest all the abundance, beauty, and joy that you not only crave, but deserve?

In this customizable 12-week self-care program, Angela Jia Kim teaches you how to nourish your inner and outer glow so your radiance shines from every pore of your being. Drawing upon her Korean beauty heritage and decades of experience as a former concert pianist and founder of Savor Beauty, she reveals how your skin and soul have a lot in common―they both need purification, detoxification, exfoliation, and nourishment.

By Angela Jia Kim

 
Unstoppable in Stilettos: A Girl's Guide to Living Tall in a Small World

How does a girl who was originally predicted to live a wheelchair-bound existence become adventurous, self-assured, successful, and . . . unflappable? Standing 4 feet 2 inches tall in flats (which she would never be caught dead in, anyway), Lauren Ruotolo has spent her thirty-four-ish years seeing the world from a unique angle―upward facing. Lauren was born with McCune-Albright syndrome, a mysterious and rare genetic disease that researchers say occurs in anywhere between 1 in 100,000 and 1 in 1 million people. Some people with the condition tend to go the wheelchair route, but that was never a road Lauren wanted to travel. Her preferred method of transportation, instead, includes stiletto heels. Lauren has avoided the label of 'disabled' through uniquely discovering who she really is, and now you, too, can learn the secrets to living life in a big way.

By Lauren Ruotolo

 
 
Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart

Compassionate Conversations empowers us to transform these conversations into opportunities to bridge divides and mend relationships by providing the basic set of conflict resolution skills we need to be successful, including listening, reframing, and dealing with strong emotions. Addressing the long history of injury and pain for marginalized groups, the authors explore topics like social privilege, power dynamics, and, political correctness allowing us to be more mindful in our conversations.

By Kimberly Loh, Diane Musho Hamilton, and Gabriel Menegale Wilson

 
Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power

For women over fifty, this invaluable guide combines practical advice, and exercises, and no shortage of sass that will inspire readers to beat ageist limitations and own their careers.

Despite advances made by women in the workplace, pay inequity and underrepresentation in top positions are still a reality. And, unfortunately, the situation looks worse for older women, who face what acclaimed author, podcast host, and sought-after coach Bonnie Marcus calls “the double whammy of gendered ageism.” As a woman over fifty, you may be wondering if there is anything you can do as you face down diminished responsibilities, decreasing visibility, and the looming specter of being “aged out.”

In this revelatory, inspiring, and savvy new book, Marcus is out to convince you that, in fact, you can do a whole lot. You can keep your job, advance your career, do the work you love and need to do―and defy all the ageist assumptions that suggest otherwise.

 
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace

In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path. Through action points, exercises, and clear-eyed coaching, Harts encourages women to summon hidden reserves of strength and courage.

By Minda Hart

 
THE AUTHENTICITY CODE: Behind the Fable, Failure, and Future of Authenticity at Work

What does it mean to have an authentic voice and presence? Do people see me as authentic? What even is authenticity in the first place when it comes to messy, complicated human interaction?

Authenticity sounds great in theory, but it's incredibly complicated in practice. There’s no clear definition. The measure of our success often lies in how other people perceive us. And the truth is that the maxim "bring your whole self to work" asks for something that might not even be welcome. Many people—based on visceral, personal experience—do not believe that they can be authentic in the world.

In THE AUTHENTICITY CODE: Behind the Fable, Failure, and Future of Authenticity at Work, authors Casey Erin Clark and Julie Fogh dive into the complexities at play—from defining what “self” actually is, to whose authentic presence we view as leadership material, to the exhausting reality of code-switching—and offer a new framework: reimagining both concept and execution for a better future of work.

By Casey Erin Clark and Julie Fogh

Backable

Recommended by Annie Evans!

No one makes it alone. But there's a reason why some people can get investors or bosses to believe in them while others cannot. And that reason has little to do with experience, pedigree or a polished business plan. Backable people seem to have a hidden quality that inspires others to take action. We often chalk this up to natural talent or charisma . . . either you have 'it' or you don't.

After getting rejected by every investor he pitched, Suneel Gupta had a burning question: could 'it' be learned?

Drawing lessons from hundreds of the world's biggest thinkers, Suneel discovered how to pitch new ideas in a way that has raised millions of dollars, influenced large-scale change inside massive corporations, and even convinced his 8-year-old daughter to clean her room.

Inside the book are long-held secrets from producers of Oscar-winning films, venture capitalists, founders of unicorn-status startups, and executives at iconic companies like Lego, Method and Pixar. Suneel used these invaluable lessons to become the New York Stock Exchange's 'New Face of Innovation'.

Backable reveals how the key to success is not charisma, connections, or even your CV, but rather your ability to persuade others to take a chance on you. This groundbreaking book will show you how.

By Suneel Gupta

** Recommended by Annie Evans!

 
 
 
 
 
 

Books By Previous WIN Summit Speakers


 
 
Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media

Year From Now You’ll Be Happy You Started Today

Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media is for anyone who needs to be reminded that we’re all a work in progress, no matter what judgments we make when measuring our lives against what others share online.

In her debut book, award-winning journalist and sought-after speaker Jessica Abo addresses the relationship between our psychology and technology and how we can take back our happiness IRL (in real life) without falling into the compare and despair trap.

Jessica helps you push the reset button with bite-sized chapters full of practical insights from experts and psychologists, as well as funny anecdotes and inspiring stories from celebrities like Alysia Reiner of “Orange is the New Black” and Baked by Melissa CEO Melissa Ben-Ishay.

 
Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record. But despite these statistics, women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status, with the highest-paying jobs the most gender-imbalanced. Even in fields where the numbers of men and women are roughly equal, or where women actually make up the majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated.

The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven't we made more progress?

In Glass Half-Broken, Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive organizational obstacles and managerial actions—limited opportunities for development, lack of role models and sponsors, and bias in hiring, compensation, and promotion—that create gender imbalances. Bringing to light the key findings from the latest research in psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, and economics, Ammerman and Groysberg show that throughout their careers—from entry-level to mid-level to senior-level positions—women get pushed out of the leadership pipeline, each time for different reasons. Presenting organizational and managerial strategies designed to weaken and ultimately break down these barriers, Glass Half-Broken is the authoritative resource that managers and leaders at all levels can use to finally shatter the glass ceiling.

 
The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America

A deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community, advocating for a new corporate environment where we all belong—and are accepted—on our own terms.

Women of color comprise one of the fastest-growing segments in the corporate workforce, yet often we are underrepresented—among the first, few, or only ones in a department or company. For too long, corporate structures, social zeitgeist, and cultural conditioning have left us feeling exhausted and downtrodden, believing that in order to “fit in” and be successful, we must hide or change who we are.

 
Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

Lublin combines her own insights with those of eighty-five executive mothers across industries—including experienced public-company chiefs such as Carol Bartz, the first woman to command Autodesk and Yahoo; Hershey’s Michele Buck, DuPont’s Ellen Kullman, ITT’s Denise Ramos, and WW International’s Mindy Grossman—and twenty-five of their grown daughters. Lublin reveals how trailblazer boomers, many now in their sixties, often endured sweeping disapproval for their demanding management careers, even as their own daughters sometimes rejected their choices. While the second wave of executive mothers—all under forty-five—handle working parenthood with less angst, they still lead stressful lives.

Power Moms provides lessons and advice to help today’s professional women, their families, and their employers navigate this challenging terrain. Lublin looks at the trade-offs mothers are too often forced to make between work and family and the root causes, including the dearth of large-scale paid parental leave and other family-friendly policies. While it celebrates the gains women have made, Power Moms makes clear how much more must be done to make being a working mother easier.

The Glass Ledge: How to Break Through Self-Sabotage, Embrace Your Power, and Create Your Success

An Empowering Guide for Curing Self-Sabotage and Finding Success by Showing Up as Your Authentic, Vulnerable, and Powerful Self

We’ve all heard of the “glass ceiling”―referencing the external oppression women still experience in the workplace. Yet even for those of us who break through the societal barriers to success, there’s another, bigger danger: internalized oppression or, metaphorically speaking, the glass ledge. “When the very qualities that help us achieve greatness turn into self-defeating behaviors, that’s when we trip over the glass ledge,” teaches Iman Oubou. “Yet we don’t need to lose ourselves to become an ideal image of a hardworking, camera-ready woman who’s got it all. There is a better way to fulfill our dreams―one that allows us to be ourselves, on our own terms.”

With The Glass Ledge, Oubou offers a disruptive guide that explores the 10 most common themes around which women tend to derail themselves, including issues around power, likability, authenticity, conflict, and more. They are organized according to when we are most likely to face them head-on, as some issues present earlier in our careers while others tend to appear later.

You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace (Pre-Order)

You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace empowers women and men to unlock a culture of greatness in the workforce—one little thing at a time. Written by six C-suite women with a collective resume covering 29 industries, the book offers a completely new lens through which to talk about and tackle the stubborn remnants of gender bias at work.

“In the business world, barriers to inclusion are barriers to success,” states a line from the book’s Introduction. “Diversity breeds better solutions faster if people feel comfortable in their environment.” But from small indignities to unconscious slights, women experience situations at work every day that may seem small or unimportant but that effectively differentiate and exclude them. These are not #MeToo moments - they are micro-offenses; the small, awkward, or uncomfortable moments that slow-build until the unwelcome environment takes hold and women disengage.

By Angelique Bellmer Krembs, Dawn Hudson, Cie Nicholson, Mitzi Short, Katie Lacey, and Lori Tauber Marcus

 
55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

A practical plan for the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, Elizabeth White shows how to get past any blame or shame, overcome denial, and find a path to a new normal.

Elizabeth White has an impressive resume, which includes advanced degrees from Harvard and Johns Hopkins and a distinguished employment history. She started a business that failed and then tried to re-enter the work force in her mid-fifties, only to learn that there is little demand for workers her age. For a while Elizabeth lived in denial, but then had to adjust to her new reality, shedding the gym membership, getting a roommate, forgoing restaurant meals, and so on. She soon learned she wasn’t alone: there are millions of Americans in her predicament and worse, exhausted from trying to survive and overcome every day.

In 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal, Elizabeth invites you to look beyond your immediate circumstances to what is possible in the new normal of financial insecurity. You’re in your fifties and sixties, and may have saved nothing or not nearly enough to retire. It’s too late for blame or shame—and it wouldn’t help anyway. What you want to know is what you can do now to have a shot at a decent retirement.

Fast Lane, Wrong Direction: Insider Secrets to Redesign Your Success and Reclaim the Passion, Purpose and Balance You Lost Along the Way

In the mad dash to succeed fast, many of us compromise so much in the areas of health, relationships, family and personal satisfaction for our work. Over time, we feel bored, burned out, unhappy or unfulfilled and have no idea how we got there or how to fix it. Renessa Boley, America's Premier Life Designer, offers witty insights to revitalize your career, business and overall life so that you experience greater freedom and fulfillment in the climb to success. This book is a wake-up call to raise the bar on happiness in both your life and your work.

We're Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris: How to Use Your Voice, Be Assertive, and Own Your Story

“A must-read” (Eve Rodsky), We’re Speaking provides inspirational lessons about life, work, and overcoming adversity—drawn from Kamala Harris's norm-shattering ascent to Vice President of the United States.

Kamala Harris is one of our country's most awe-inspiring political figures, dawning on a new age as the first—but not last—Black and Asian-American female Vice President. Having spent her entire career smashing glass ceilings and influencing the next generation of young women, Harris has completely redefined what it means to be a woman in politics.

In We’re Speaking, Palepu connects illuminating stories from Harris’ unique biography with tactical advice that will teach you to :

  • Own the power of your multitudes
  • Act on and embrace your ambition
  • Develop your unique voice and style
  • Find your North Star to guide your decisions

Best of all, We're Speaking will leave you feeling empowered to follow in Harris's footsteps — shattering glass ceilings of your own as you live the life of your dreams!

 
MOM AF

More than just a swear word, the fiction book club novel MOM AF is here to show you the real journey of being a mother and having a career, and help you to relate to it in a fun and entertaining way.

Christine Carter is a badass fearless and inspirational Black girl. She may run on caffeine, chaos, and cuss words, but she wants nothing more than to become a well-rounded parent, wife, and professional. Like most young moms, she aspires to live a stress-free life. But when her world becomes unbalanced, and a separation thwarts her, Carter must look inside herself, realize shawty, you AIN’T the sht, and address several issues- from the idea of traditional marriage to perfectionism to self-doubt. MOM AF follows Carter’s journey to owning her sht (the good and the bad) and redefining what truly makes her one sane, strong, and sexy mother.

This novel is essential because it's unintentionally full of affirmations to help women have a mindful divorce and teach them how to heal and be happy after a separation. In each chapter the reader will see their lives and nod in agreement, curse in anger, or even chuckle out loud, thinking “I get you and you get me.” This Goodreads recommendation will provide comfort, empathy, and hope for many young women.

The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself

Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom. You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life?

As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney Casares understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Casares’ advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again.

The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction

The Pie Life is the ultimate self-improvement playbook for women who work. Now is the time for you to banish the guilt and start living a life you love! Having worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, bestselling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time. Incorporating personal stories from hundreds of women, including TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, news anchor Gayle King, Wall Street maven Sallie Krawcheck, Barnard College president Debora Spar, entrepreneur Liz Lange, and Marie Claire editor-in-chief Anne Fulenwider, The Pie Life will turn everything you know about work/life balance on its head. Transform your life into one that is more satisfying, rich, and delicious than you ever thought possible and join the thousands of women already living the Pie Life.

 
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII―in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen―in and out of uniform.

Skip the Party, Start a Business

In this candid story, Ariana Pierce shares personal life lessons and proven secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. From chapter to chapter, Ariana shares real experiences.

Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World

With her acclaimed New York Times bestseller (and Reese’s Book Club pick) Fair Play, Eve Rodsky began a national conversation about greater equality on the home front. But she soon realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more balanced, people still report something missing in their lives—that is, unless they create and prioritize time for activities that not only fill their calendars but also unleash their creativity.

Rodsky calls this vital time Unicorn Space—the active and open pursuit of creative self-expression in any form that makes you uniquely YOU. To help readers embrace all the unlikely, surprising, and delightful places where their own Unicorn Space may be found, she speaks with trail blazers, thought leaders, academics, and countless real people who have discovered theirs everywhere—from activism to artistic endeavors to second careers.

Rodsky reveals what researchers already know: Creativity is not optional. It’s essential. Though most of us do need to remind ourselves how (and where) to find it. With her trademark mix of research based, how-to advice and big-picture inspirational thinking, Rodsky shows you a clear path to reclaim your permission to have fun, manifest your own Unicorn Space in an already too-busy life, and unleash your special gifts and undiscovered talents into the world.

 
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change

Living and working on the front lines of change starts with finding power in change and giving yourself permission to take risks.

By Beth Comstock with Tahl Raz

 
The Politics of Promotion: How High Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

The Politics of Promotion offers women the tools and guidance they need to successfully navigate the realities of their organization, emphasizing the need to understand office politics to get the promotions and recognition they deserve. This book provides a unique and proven method for becoming a bigger player in the workplace and avoiding unexpected trip-ups that can add years to the climb — or end it for good.

By Bonnie Marcus

 
Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly

In Bring Yourself, Mori explains how our pressure points, personal experiences, and even our cultural expectations can become roadblocks to finding common ground and offers essential strategies to move beyond them and open our minds.

By Mori Taheripour

 
Good Enough Now

It’s 2020 and after many heated arguments with the author, I have updated, edited, and added a ton of new information to my book! Let’s call it Gooder Enough Now – ha – not really.

The second edition also has an audiobook that I know a lot of folks have wanted – good luck with the activities while on a treadmill!

Good Enough Now, wasn’t perfect and neither are we, but we can all do the best we can with what we have some of the time. Now you can also use the book club discussion questions, read an interview with the author, and lots of new examples, stories, applications, and information.

Get your copy of Gooder Enough Now now… Good.

By Jessica Pettitt

 
The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking Because People Do Business with People They Like

In 11 Laws of Likability, Michelle Tillis-lederman presents activities, self-assessment quizzes, and real-life anecdotes from professional and social settings to show readers how to identify what's likable in themselves and use those characteristics to build connections with other professionals. The worst thing anyone can do when trying to establish a personal bond with someone is to come across as manipulative or self-serving. That’s why Michelle focuses on the power of authentic connections, which go much deeper and feel much easier than trying to hit self-imposed business card collection quotas.

By Michelle Tillis-Lederman

 
The Money Queen's Guide: For Women Who Want to Build Wealth and Banish Fear

From your Roaring 20's, to your Thrifty 30's, and all the way to your (hopefully) Smooth 60's, The Money Queen's Guide will work to lead you through each of these financial decades step-by-step and provide insight into the steps you can take, and the decision you should make to build a financially responsible future. Financial security is an exciting journey we can take together. So pack your purse and get ready for the ride.

By Cary Carbonaro

 
The Personal Brand Bible for Ambitious Women: Featuring Success Secrets From Six-Figure Trailblazers

This book is the ultimate blueprint to building a stellar reputation, networking like a pro and using publicity and partnerships to elevate your message, with checklists at the end of each chapter to help you stay on track. Packed with practical ideas and advice, author Marielle Legair shares insights from her career as a global communications strategist and founder of Women Who Influence, a personal branding and publicity firm for female entrepreneurs.

By Marielle Legair

 
Unapologetically Winning: Overcoming Adversity and Taking Action

Unapologetically Winning is a group of inspiring and empowering testimonies from women who have weathered the storm and came out victorious. Through these testimonies you will find comfort and encouragement in the face of adversity and life's challenges. The good news is that our "been throughs" are the setups for our next level breakthrough(s). In this phenomenal book you will find the motivation and inspiration, to help yo overcome and live your best life. Each Contributing Author is authentic, unashamedly transparent and will walk you through their trials to triumphs.

By Monique Denton-Davis

 
Pick Three You Can Have It All (Just Not Every Day)

A New York Times bestseller!

In this motivational handbook—both a business how-to and self-help guide—the New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated takes on the fallacy of the "well-balanced" life, arguing that the key to success is learning to be well-lopsided.

By Randi Zuckerberg

 
 
 
 
 

Other WIN Recommendations


 
 
Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your closest relationships and your everyday life, but often people shy away from it, feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking new book on negotiation, Ask for More, Alexandra Carter—Columbia law professor and mediation expert who has helped students, business professionals, the United Nations, and more—offers a straightforward, accessible approach anyone can use to ask for and get more.

By Alexandra Carter

 
Negotiating at Work: Turn Small Wins Into Big Gains

Negotiating at Work offers practical advice for managing your own workplace negotiations: how to get opportunities, promotions, flexibility, buy-in, support, and credit for your work. It does so within the context of organizational dynamics, recognizing that to negotiate with someone who has more power adds a level of complexity. This is true when we negotiate with our superiors, and also true for individuals currently under represented in senior leadership roles, whose managers may not recognize certain issues as barriers or obstacles.

By Deborah M. Kolb with Jessica L. Porter

 
A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating

Discover the three keys to negotiating success for women. Understand the 10 most common mistakes that women make and how to avoid them. Learn from women such as CEO of Avon Andrea Jung, Chairman of Hearst Magazines Cathie Black, Emmy- winning actress Christine Baranski, and television anchor Alexis Glick how to get what you deserve in every aspect of your life, whether it is earning more money, buying your next car, or just getting your husband to help around the house.

By Lee E. Miller with Jessica Miller

 
Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation and Positive Strategies for Change

Women Don’t Ask combines fascinating research with revealing commentary from hundreds of women. It explores the personal and societal reasons women seldom ask for what they need, want, and deserve at home and at work-and how they can develop this crucial skill. While offering real-life examples of the differences between the negotiating habits of men and women, it guides women in retooling their attitudes and approaches.

By Linda Babcock

 
Ask For It: How Women Can Use The Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want

Whether it’s a raise, that overdue promotion, an exciting new assignment, or even extra help around the house, this four-phase program, backed by years of research and practical success, will show you how to recognize how much more you really deserve, maximize your bargaining power, develop the best strategy for your situation, and manage the reactions and emotions that may arise—on both sides. Guided step-by-step, you’ll learn how to draw on your special strengths to reach agreements that benefit everyone involved. This collaborative, problem-solving approach will propel you to new places both professionally and personally—and open doors you thought were closed.

By Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever

 
Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture that Brings out the Best in People

This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Brimming with key research findings, real-life case studies, and workable recommendations, this book fills an important gap in our understanding of how best to be together in a conflict-ridden world.

By Donna Hicks

 
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know

Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. It provides an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence-and learning how to achieve it-for women of all ages and at all stages of their careers.

By Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

 
Lean In: Women, Work and The Will to Lead

Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.

By Sheryl Sandberg

 
25 Negotiating Strategies of Highly Successful Women

Improving your negotiation skills is an essential part of making sure you can achieve everything you have worked so hard for in your career. Many women face similar problems when it comes to negotiating. However, women also have similar advantages that men are less likely to have. In this book, you will get a total of 25 practical strategies that you can use to become a better negotiator. By using them, you will be able to get what you deserve and be more persuasive in general.

By Natalie Disque

 
 
The Only Negotiation Book You'll Ever Need

The Only Negotiation Book You'll Ever Need guides you through every stage of the process--from identifying opportunities to closing the deal--with useful negotiation techniques and tips for adapting classic strategies to online interactions. This book helps you anticipate your adversaries' moves, outwit them at every turn, and spin obstacles to your advantage. You'll also build long-term relationships and win your deals without ever having to give in.

By Angelique Pinet and Peter Sander

 
Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

In Rebel Talent, Havard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why creative rebellion is essential at work and in life, and why the most successful among us are those who break the rules. Rebel Talent provides strategies and examples for cultivating and embracing the right amount of rebellion in the workplace and in life, and offers illuminating case studies ranging from The World's Best Restaurant to fast food chains to corporations such as Google and Pixar. Gino encourages all of us to rebel against what's comfortable so we can thrive.

By Francesca Gino

 
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

In The Art of Gathering, Thrive Labs founder Priya Parker, a professional facilitator with a background in conflict resolution, argues that most of us tend to just go through the motions when planning events, whether a dinner party, a conference, or a negotiation. The result, too often, is a dull, forgettable experience. Parker offers novel advice on how we can make our negotiations and other group events more meaningful, memorable, and rewarding.

By Priya Parker

 
 
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

When people from different cultures negotiate, the potential for misunderstandings is often high, and destructive conflict is too often the result. In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, University of Maryland psychologist Michele Gelfand explains how a simple yet powerful new cultural framework—tightness-looseness theory—can help us make sense of our cross-cultural differences, break down cultural barriers, and achieve more at the bargaining table.

By Michele Gelfand

 
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith identify the 12 habits that hold women back as they seek to advance, showing them why what worked for them in the past might actually be sabotaging their future success. How Women Rise is essential reading for any woman who is ready to advance to the next level.

By Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

 
Money Can Buy You Happiness: Secrets Women Need to Know to Get Paid What They are Worth!

Money Can Buy You Happiness provides all the negotiating strategies, tools and skills needed for women to close the gender wage gap and get paid what they are worth. It deconstructs women’s uncomfortable relationship with money, encourages them to seek their true market value, and provides them with a proven step-by-step plan to close their own personal wage and income gap.

By Patty Ann Tublin

 
 
Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth, Salary Negotiation for Women

From one of the top resume and salary negotiation experts in the country, Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth: Salary Negotiation for Women is your front row seat to all the insider secrets of the world of earning what you are worth. From learning exactly what you are worth in today's market, to teaching you how to get it without fearing rejection- this book will give you never-before-shared advice on the perfect resume and cover letter from the perspective of a compensation expert. You will learn the secrets of nonverbal communication to your advantage.

By Olivia Jaras

 
Getting (More of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics & Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in Business & Life

Getting (More of) What You Want reveals how to overcome our psychological biases and assess the hidden value in any negotiation. Neale and Lys present a practical new approach that will help you master this crucial everyday skill in every situation. Drawing on three decades of ground-breaking research into behavioral economics, psychology and strategic thinking, this book will revolutionize the way you approach negotiation. Whether you're looking for a better deal on your new car, asking for a pay rise, selling your company or just deciding who does the washing up, this book will help you become a more successful, more efficient negotiator - and get more of exactly what you want.

By. Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys