“Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken”
All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically Jim Fielding Wiley (2023) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde The last time I checked, Amazon offers more than 60,000 volumes in which their authors…
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Breaking Through: Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World Sally Susman Harvard Business Review Press (March 2023) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde As I began to read this book, I was reminded of another,…
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Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch a Brilliant Career Christie Hunter Arscott Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2022) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde Christie Hunter Arscott is a passionate as well as eloquent advocate…
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5 Habits to Lead from Your Heart: Getting Out of Your Head to Express Your Heart Johnny Covey Made for Success Publishing (June 2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle…
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The Mentor Myth: How to Take Control of Your Own Success Debby Carreau Bibliomotion Media (April 2016) Who’s your best mentor? That would be you IF you are determined to become the best you that you can be Oscar Wilde…
Read MoreAll the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence Suzanne Bates McGraw-Hill Education (2016) Here’s a “research-based definition of executive presence” with an explanation of how to develop it Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about…
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5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram John WIley & Sons (2015) “No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for…
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Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life! Stephen McKenzie Career Press (2014) How and why awareness and acceptance are essential to personal growth and professional development What is mindfulness? Opinions vary. Here is one that…
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success Dan Schawbel St. Martin’s Griffin (2014) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde This is an expanded and updated edition of a book first published a year ago. I agree with…
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Josh Waitzkin Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2007) One man’s “inner journey” to achieve his own optimal performance It is important to keep in mind that the material in this book…
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