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Recommended Articles

Career Development:  Don't settle!

Harvard Business Review Sept 2007: Why Women Aren't Making it into the C-Suite

Link to "Eight Resolutions To Enhance Your Career"

Link to "To Make It to the Top, Be a Reliable Colleague"

Link to "What To Do When You're Passed Over for a Promotion"

Link to "Declutter Your Career And Make Way for Success"

Link to "Five Ways Women Can Raise Their Professional Profile"

Link to "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"

Link to "When and How to Push Your Boss for More Help"

Link to "How to Keep Cool In Performance Reviews"

Link to "Hit a Career Plateau? Four Tips for Moving Up"

Link to "First Impressions Matter When Starting a New Job"

Link to "How to Leave a Mentor Without Burning Bridges"

Link to "Job Hop to the Top Of the Corporate Ladder"

Link to "How to Position Yourself To Snag Your Boss's Job"

Link to "Signs That Your Job Is Headed In a Good -- or Bad -- Direction"

Link to "Before Calling It Quits, Know How to Exit a Job With Grace"

New Business Development:  What are you waiting for?  Expand your network today! 

Download Pink Magazine's "Deals and Meals"

Link to "SCHMOOZE and WIN: Small Talk Your Way To Success"

Link to "Presenting: How to Work an Audience"

Link to "How to Appear Authoritative When Cameras Are Rolling"

Link to "Entering and Exiting Conversations...Gracefully"

Link to "The Art of Earning Referrals"

Work Life Balance:  It is the topic everyone is interested in mastering!

Link to "How to Advance Your Career And Still Have a Personal Life"

Link to "The Top 14 Reasons We're Stressed Out"

Link to "Weight Gain on the Job"

Link to "Is Work/Life Balance Realistic?"

Link to "Working from Home"

Link to "How Power Couples Balance Work and Life"

Link to "Returning to Work Post-Baby"

Generation Y Articles:  The baby-boomers' kids are marching into the workplace, and look out: This crop of twentysomethings really is different.

Link to "New Grads Quickly Grow Impatient For Climbing the Corporate Ladder"

Link to "Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude"

Link to "Attracting the twentysomething worker".

Gender Issues:  We are the ones expected to drive this change.

Link to "Workplace anger -- who wins?" - A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as "out of control"

Link to "Surprise! Women on the Board Earn More"

Link to "Why Women Get Paid Less"

Link to "Pay: The Gender Gap"

Link to "What women want and the suits who stand in their way"

Other topics of potential interest: 

Link to "Strategies for Working Together When Positioned a World Apart"

Link to "Building your Kitchen Cabinet" from CFO Magazine

Link to "Should You Return To a Former Employer?"

Link to "Most mergers don't work - so how do you beat the odds?"

Recommended Books

Link to a review on Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos by Deloitte's Lynette Lewis

Link to a review on "The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership" by Sally Helgesen

Link to a review on "She Wins, You Win" by Gail Evans

Link to a review of "The 4-Hour Workweek"

Recommended Reading: The Lives of Great Leaders

Link to "Twentysomethings on the Books That Inspire and Guide Them" such as Atlas Shrugged, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work, and Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time.


Original AWTS Content

The following contains excerpts from articles on work/life balance.

Download the first collage

Please email jenniferhunter@atlantawts.com if you have suggested readings.

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