Books for Women Entrepreneurs

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The Work At Home Balancing Act: The professional resource guide for managing yourself, your work, and your family at home
Sandy Anderson
1998
240 pages + appendices

Back cover
Working at home [good ol’ library sticker obscures text] be your own boss, and make your own [?] you need to be prepared for if you are going to succeed.

TOC
Part 1: Sizing up yourself and your situation for a work-at-home lifestyle

1. Why work at home?
-Identify your reasons for working at home
-Visualizing your work at home fantasy
-What excites you about working at home?
-Control and flexibility
-Getting clear

2. Are you suited for working at home?
-The home worker personality inventory
-The bottom line

3. Choosing a fitting line of work
-Establishing your motivation for working
-Targeting your comfort zone
-Designing your perfect career
-Research, research and more research
-Developing your plan of action

Part II: Coping Strategies - Keys to Creating Balance (Honest, Communication, Negotiation)

4. Managing children
-Child care - to have or not to have?
-Creative strategies for working without paid child care
-Paid child-care options
-Maintaining a good relationship with your childcare provider
-Experiment to find what works

5. Dividing and conquering the household load
-Who carries the load in a work-at-home arrangement
-Overcoming a lack of spousal support
-Team approaches to divvying up household chores
-Involving your children in household tasks
-Saving time on the home front
-What about hiring a housecleaner
-It’s up to you

6. Working at home can enhance your relationship
-Organizational constraints: what men and women are up againt
-What happens when men and women go On their Own
Unlocking golden handcuffs
Determining your relationship style
What makes a happy marriage
Crossover learning
Staying in tune with your partner
Tips for home working couples
Resolving conflicts
Setting joint goals

7. Establishing rules, Boundaries and schedules
-Communicating with children
-Creating physical and psychological boundaries
-A Word about pets
-Implementing personal rules of contract
Managing your schedule wisely
Achieving your ultimate balance

8. Dealing with the big three psychological challenges (Isolation, Motivation, Stress)
-Conquering isolation
-Handling internal and external cycles
-Managing stress
-Homeworkers attitudes towards stress
-Choosing three-in-one activities

9. Organizing your time and work space
-Saving time on the work front
-Designing your home office
-Organizing your home office
-Staying on top of it all

Part III: Savvy business strategies

10. Making the transition to a work at home lifestyle
-Creating a realistic plan for making the leap
-Targeting your start-up date
-Preparing yourself and your loved ones
-Launching your home business
-Special tips for telecommuters
-Approaching your plan one step at a time

11. Managing and growing your home business
-Fine-tuning your marketing techniques
-Few clients vs. many
-Updating your business plan and goals
-Hanging on to your money
-Expanding yor home business
-Record keeping
-Taxing matters
-Stay open to new ideas

12. Pulling it all together

13. Recommended resources

References

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Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up your earning and change your life
Barbara Stanny, 2002

Jacket:
Maybe you've noticed - a subtle trend is gathering steam. Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing, and it continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white collar executives to free lancers and part timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success.

Through extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including dialogs with more than 150 high earners whose annual incomes range from $100,000 to 7 million, Stanny discovered that ...they all had certain traits in common:

1) a profit motive
2) Audacity
3) REslience
4) Encouragement
5) Self-awareness
6) Non-attachment
7) Financial knowhow

She amplifies on these in the book itself.

Table of Contents

Intro: Welcome to the era of the six-figure woman
1. The Queen in the Countinghouse
2. The Lowdown on low earners
3. Raising the bar
4. Strategy 1: The Declaration of Intention
5. Strategy 2: Letting go of the ledge
6. Strategy 3: Get in the Game
7. Strategy 4: Speak Up
8. Strategy 5: The Stretch
9. Strategy 6: Seek Support
10. Strategy 7: Obey the rules of money
11. Claiming our power

Appendces:
Resources and websites
Tips for getting out of dent
Investing Basics: Wealthbuilding 101

[Shonika]

Here are some of my favorites:

How Men Think, by Adrienne Mendell

Oh the Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss

Slowing Down to the Speed of Life, by Dr. Richard Carlson (he wrote don't sweat the small stuff, but SDTSPL is a 'real book', not an a.d.d. short attention span book).

[OmnivoreInk]

Picked up a book at the library the other day that made good reading.

How Jane Won: 55 Successsful Women Share How they Grew From Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women, by Dr. Sylvia Rimm.

Features:

Lawmakers and Adjudicators:
Christine Whitman, governor of New Jersey
Mydia M Velasquez, US Congresswoman from New York
Mary Previte, New Jersey State Assemblywoman
Sandra day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Shelley Berkely, Congresswoman from Nevada
Kay Bailey Hutchison, US senator from Texas
Wilma P Mankiller, Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Barbara Cubin, Congresswoman from Wyoming
Martha Coakley, District attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Marthsa Lindner, Managing Law Partner

Shatterers of Glass Ceilings:
Cathleen Black, President of Hearst magazines
Marva Collins, founder of Urban Prepatory School, Chicago
Tamara Minick-Scokalo, Marketing Director, Proctor and Gamblr
Phyllis Grann, CEO, Penguin/Putnam worldwide publishing group
Charlotte Otto, Senior VP and Global Public Affairs Officer, Procter and Gamble
Patricia Seybold, Founder and CEO, The Patricia Seybold Group [Consultants for Customer Satisfaction]
Annik LaFarge, Senior VP and E-publisher, Contentville.com [Interestingly, this site folded after 14 months. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbreade ... leID=17492
Katherine Hudson, President and CEO, Brady Corporation
Connie Matsui, Senior VP, Planning and Resource Development, IDEC Pharmaceuticals
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO, Carlson Companies
Marsha Evans, Executive Director, Girl Scouts
Sandra Labas Fenwick, COO, Children's Hospital, Boston
Merle Waxman, Associate Dean, Ombudsperson, and Director of the Office for Women in Medicine, Yale Medical School

Healers and Discoverers
Eileen Collins - NASA astronaut
Cady Coleman - NASA Astronaut
Alexa Canady - Pediatric neurosurgeon, Children's Hospital of Michigan
Lilian Gonsalves, Psychiatrist, The Cleveland Clinic
Susan Lemagie - OBGYN and Women's HEalth activist
Camella Okpodu - Plant physiologist and Assistant Professor
Teresa Culver - Civil Engineer and Associate Professor
Sosamma Berger, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology. Case Western reserve University

The Nurturers
Jan Dorman, Homemaker and community leader
Roberta Baldwin, homemaker and community volunteer
Jeanette Ives Erickson, Senior VP of Patient Care Services and Chief of Nursing, Masachusets, General Hospital
Pauline Robitaille, Nurse and Directoinr of Surgical SErvices
Lisa Hayes-Taylor - National Certified Elementary School Teacher
Elizabeth Dabrowski, Chemistry Teacher at Magnificat Ctholic Girls High School
Grances A> Karnes, Professor of Special Education, Francis A Karnes Center for GIfted Studies

THe Artists and Musicians
Mary GrandPre - Illustrator
Francis B Bayless- wilflfe photographer
Rodene Brchan - Graphic artist
Martha Aarons, Flutist, cleveland sympony orchestera
Pamela Frank, Nationally acclaimed solo violinist

The Communicators
Jane Pauley, anchorwoman
Florence HEnderson - actress
D eborah Roberts- CORRESPONDENT
Catherine Callaway CNN Reporter
Janice Huff, meteorologist
Janet Schiller, Producer
Cindy beckler, producer for CNN
Norine G. Johnson, Clinical Psychologist
Francis Culbertson - Psychologist
Kathleen Dunn - pblic radio host
Lesley Seymour - Editor in Chief, Redbook magazine
Jacqueline Mitchard, author of a NY Times bestseller.

[Party Plan Pat]

Nice list! looks like 2009 for me will be a great reading year! May I add one more book to this list?

Go For No one of the best books for those who want to succeed in sales and business of any kind. It is a short read only 80 pages.

Also greatest failures of the extremely successful

Thanks for this list!

[abeja_reina_1989]

Thank you so much. I think I should see if I can buy some of these on my Kindle. I didn't even think to read a book on entrepreneurs, which is crazy because I would love to know more. That's a wonderful idea. I'm sure there are some nice tips in there.

[GT Bulmer]

Hello, Abeja:

Did you know that Evan has some awesome profiles of famous women entrepreneurs right here on his website?

Check out the home page at http://www.evancarmichael.com/

Near the top of the page, under the "Famous Entrepreneur Advice" section, you will see head-shots and links to many famous entrepreneurs, including Oprah, J.K. Rowling, Mary Kay Ash, Jennifer Lopez and many, many more. Just refresh the page to get a new selection of entrepreneurs.

GT

[unlimited22]

The S.O. Getting Rich Book & Workbook - Best book and workbook to help discover what you really want and prosper doing it as it is revealed to you subconsciously as you read and do exercises. Works every time.

Your Word is Your Wand by Florence Scovel Shinn - helps to align what you say to what you desire

Byways of Blessedness by James Allen - helps removes inner stumbling blocks to success in business and personal relationships

All can be found at http://lulu.com/SoRichIam