Career Family

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the US ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?

It's not a surprise that in 1924 The Man Nobody Knows, was repeatedly turned down by publishers. Comparing Jesus to a corporate businessman was just plain old sacrilege. But in this day and age, Barton's comparison of Biblical teachings, personalities, and situations, offer great insights into the basic principles of developing a successful business, encouraging a team, and supporting clientele.

Durante sus doce años como una de las más admiradas CEO del mundo, Indra Nooyi redefinió lo que significa ser un líder excepcional. La primera mujer de color e inmigrante en dirigir una de las 50 compañías más importantes listadas por Fortune y una de las estrategas más destacadas de nuestro tiempo transformó PepsiCo con una visión única, una vigorosa búsqueda por la excelencia y un gran sentido del propósito. En sus memorias nos cuenta con gracia, valor y buen humor su legendaria carrera y los sacrificios realizados.

Change your child's future starting today: Learn how to use Stephen R. Covey's proven 7 Habits to create a leadership program for kids of all ages, so they can be more effective, more goal oriented, and more successful.

Whether you are a new mother, just thinking about it, or already trying to combine a career and children, working motherhood can sometimes seem like an impossible balancing act. That's why Tobi Asare, founder of My Bump Pay, doesn't doesn't talk about 'the juggle' or finding 'balance', but instead about The Blend. With chapters focusing on navigating work while pregnant, freelancers, childcare, future babies and mum guilt, each section also has advice and career tips from successful women who are already making the best of the blend.

Create peace at home and build prosperity at work. The opportunities are great for family business owners, but so are the risks. You’re shaping a legacy, building an inheritance, and generating generational financial freedom. But when the wealth and well-being of your family and business intertwine, how do you ensure success in both areas?

Há um século era certo que uma mulher formada tinha que escolher entre ter uma carreira ou uma família. Já no século XXI, as mulheres estão se formando no nível superior em números recordes, alcançando os principais títulos de pós-graduação e os cargos mais altos em maior escala. Elas têm melhores condições para seguir carreiras de longo prazo, e um maior número delas está tendo mais filhos. Como explicar, então, o persistente hiato salarial entre homens e mulheres?

What tools do you rely on to overcome life's most pressing challenges when your career, family, and life are on the line? The Moment That Defines Your Life ignites positive behavioral change to successfully address life's most trying circumstances. Filled with potent and practical calls to action, this book tells the story of ten people who developed the courage and conviction to overcome life's most frightening events and share their extraordinary stories of transformation.

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the unexpected toll of giving it up. It's time, she says, to get the message across: combining work and family really is the best choice for most women.

Toddlers can be immensely rewarding, but can also be enormously stressful and challenging. In this audiobook, the UK's leading parenting coach, Sue Atkins, discusses simple tools and techniques you can use to handle anger, deal with tantrums, and set effective boundaries.

Lauren Golden, founder of The Free Mama movement, teaches women how to have a life many have only dreamed about: one where they can make good money and be there for their families - without sacrificing one for the other and without guilt.

Women have a secret set of powers when it comes to manifesting. I realized women are the original portals for manifesting. A spirit comes from another reality, lives in a woman's body, and then becomes a physical reality. With that, comes codes for manifesting that are written into the DNA of our bodies. These codes are not known by most women because, for many years women have been discriminated against and weren’t granted as many rights as men. Neither in the financial field, politics, nor in the family’s decision-making arena.

How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact.

Over the last 60 years, women's lives have transformed from generation to generation. Without a template to follow, women make important decisions blindly, groping for a way forward, winging it, and hoping it all works out. Whether you're deciding if you should pass up a promotion in favor of more flex time, planning when to get pregnant, or wondering what the ramifications are of being the only person in your house who ever unloads the dishwasher, The Ambition Decisions is a guide to the changes that may seem arbitrary but are life defining, by women who've been there.

This is a practical, relatable, and humorous guide to surviving the difficult, awkward, and rewarding job of being a breastfeeding, working mother. Drawing on the war stories, hacks, and humor of working moms and on her own stories from her demanding job and travel in developing countries, she gives women moral support for dealing with the stress and guilt that come with juggling working and breastfeeding. As she tells the listener in her witty, inspiring manifesto, "Your worth as a mother is not measured in ounces."

Most of us are terrified of conflict, says Arnold Mindell, PhD, author of 15 books and internationally recognized for his innovative synthesis of Jungian therapy, dreams, and bodywork. But we needn't be. His burning passion is to create groups and organizations, where everyone looks forward to group processes instead of fearing them. He calls this the deep democracy of open forums, where all voices, thoughts, and feelings are aired freely, especially the ones nobody wants to hear.

In You Can Change Other People, the world's number-one executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, PhD, share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change - even if they've been stuck for years. No one wants to be changed, but change and personal growth are critical to success, and more importantly, to a fulfilled life. You Can Change Other People is a must-listen for those who want to improve their impact with coworkers, family members, and everyone in between.

Currently, in the United States alone, nearly 250,000 women under age 40 are living with breast cancer. This year, approximately 11,000 women under age 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and close to 1,300 will die. For women in their twenties and thirties, being diagnosed with breast cancer is a vastly different experience than for their older counterparts. I'm Too Young considers how breast cancer affects young women's lives: their career goals, health insurance coverage, career changes, education, and shifting work/life priorities.

Do you find yourself walking throughout life with a dark cloud over your head? Do you always find yourself in a bad mood or having mood swings? Would you like to get rid of your negative thoughts and feelings, and start producing the life you deserve? Everybody should be able to live a happy life, full of positiveness, joy, and brightness!

Why do women find work-life balance so hard? Why is having it all such an elusive quest? Why haven't women achieved equality yet in the leadership ranks? Authors Jodi Ecker Detjen, Michelle A. Waters, and Kelly Watson probe these questions and more in this highly anticipated new book: The Orange Line™: A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career, Family & Life.