Career Family

The New York Times best-selling author of The Beach House, Jemima J, and Sister Stardust presents a novel about the pleasure and meaning of finding a home - and family - where you least expect them...When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends.

"Balancing Acts of Grace" is more than just a guide. It's a lifeline for those in their late forties to early fifties, inviting them to explore the comprehensive world of caregiving for elderly parents with dementia while managing careers and family dynamics. It provides support, resilience, and expert guidance through the multifaceted challenges of dementia care, including comprehensive coverage of legal and financial preparations.

David C. Bentall shares family business insights gleaned from 20 years of working with the Bentall Group and Dominion Construction. Skillfully marrying his own experience with bet practices in the field, he offers solutions to the distinct challenges faced by all families in business. Practical examples are also included from the following prominent entrepreneurial business families from across North America.

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.

Make sure your child is equipped with the mindset that schools do not teach! This book contains proven steps and strategies on how parents who are entrepreneurs can set their children on the path to becoming entrepreneurs themselves someday.

A groundbreaking book for any business owner, family business, or budding entrepreneur, The Family Edge provides clear evidence and powerful tools to help you leverage the asset you need but have probably not paid enough attention to: family capital.

Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we've never had a trusted, go-to guide all our own - one that coaches us on how to do well at work, be the loving and engaged parents we want to be, and remain true to ourselves in the process. Enter Workparent. Whether you're planning a family, pushing for promotion during your kids' teenage years, or at any phase in between, Workparent provides all the advice and assurance you'll need to combine children and career in your own, authentic way.

Great leadership is a prerequisite for success. It’s about communicating the vision and mission of your organization effectively and creating cultures of innovation, inspiration, and a strong sense of purpose to allow your employees to flourish. In Walking the Leadership Tightrope: How to Balance Career and Family through the Chaos of Crisis, Chris recounts his experiences from his early days of childhood at his local Catholic parish to founding his own executive coaching and consulting company, and all the leadership roles he undertook in between.

Without your support, your middle school student's self-regard can crack. But a solid sense of self-worth now—in middle school—will help your youngster find future fulfillment in the adult world of work. Career Book 2 empowers parents and counselors to prepare youngsters (ages 11-13) with disabilities for meaningful employment as adults.

Career Book 3 outlines six strategies for helping your youngster grow in self-confidence and nine strategies for discovering disability's competitive edge in tomorrow's job market—all based on the road map recommended by the U.S. National Career Development Guidelines

In Life After Medical School, Dr. Bill Truels presents a compilation of both humorous and serious short stories and poems depicting his 50 years of experience as a practicing physician. Written initially for medical students and health care workers, these accounts have become popular with the general public, and anyone with a career that threatens to overtake their family life.

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.

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.

Leaders like you have the knowledge, curiosity, and imagination that goes into successfully coaching executives...but how do you create a successful business doing meaningful work and be fully present in your children’s lives? If fear and doubt keep you stuck in the safety zone, then Passion Purpose Profit is the key to becoming a leader who transforms lives. You can help others fulfill their potential by modeling an integrated life. The best reward? Your children will chase their passions too!

In Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership, civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful life and career.

In The Third Option, Shannon Miles shares how she took a leap of faith to create a flexible career that gave meaning to both her work and her family, and she tells how you can accomplish the same. Whether you want to be a contractor or freelancer or change an existing position into a job that meets your needs as well as the company's, you can live and work on your own terms.

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.

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.

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.

Are you unsure how to hand over control, or how to take it? Passing Down Your Success reveals the family dynamics that can hamper intergenerational transition–and how to address them. Learn how to face difficult questions together as a family, analyze your business, and prepare for a successful transition.