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The FWI Foundation online bookstore is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Below are our featured selections. The FWI Foundation receives a portion of all sales made through the bookstore. Mouse over the book cover images below for a brief description and purchasing information or click to purchase. Most of these books are available through our partner, Amazon.com.

Annual Conference Featured Speakers/Authors:

Nice Girls
Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious
Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their
Careers, by Lois P. Frankel.  Frankel is a
recognized expert in the fields of workplace
behavior and female empowerment, and the
president of Corporate Coaching International.
She shows that half of the American workforce
is made up of women, and they still earn 76.5
cents to every dollar earned by men. Nice Girls
Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women
Make with Money, by Lois P. Frankel. Frankel is
a recognized expert in the fields of workplace
behavior and female empowerment, and the
president of Corporate Coaching International.
She shows that half of the American workforce
is made up of women, and they still earn 76.5
cents to every dollar earned by men. Her Place at
the Table, by Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams,
Carol Frohlinger.  Her Place at the Table is a
practical guide for any woman dealing with the
demanding role of leadership. Drawing on
extensive interviews with women leaders, the
authors isolate five key challenges. Mustang
Sallies, by Fawn Germer.  The bestselling
author of Hard Won Wisdom teaches women the
benefits of charging ahead and succeeding on
their own terms.
The Fine Art
of Small Talk, by Debra Fine.  Do you spend an
abnormal amount of time hiding out in the
bathroom or hanging out at the buffet table at
social gatherings? Does the thought of striking
up a conversation with a stranger make your
stomach do flip-flops? Do you sit nervously
through job interviews waiting for the other
person to speak? Are you a Nervous Ned or
Nellie when it comes to networking? With
practical advice and conversation cheat sheets,
The Fine Art of Small Talk reveals techniques
and strategies to feel more comfortable in any
type of social situation, from lunch with the
boss to an association event to a singles party
where you don't know a soul. When
Goliaths Clash: Managing Executive Conflict to
Build a More Dynamic Organization, by Howard M.
Guttman.  Conflict in the executive ranks often
snakes its way down to the trenches, polarizing
entire organizations, and undermining morale,
productivity and corporate goals. But managed
correctly, the passion that powers these
conflicts can be turned into a high-performance
fuel that transforms not just executive
relationships but the mechanics of the whole
company. Howard M. Guttman (240 pp., hardcover,
2003)

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Business Tools

The
Achievement Paradox, by Ph. D. Ronald A.
Warren.  Personality plays a large role in job
success, as much if not more so than
professional skills and experience, says Ronald
Warren, organizational psychologist and author
of The Achievement Paradox. The book describes
Warren's Assessment of Character Traits (ACT)
Profile, with instructions on how to tap the
ACT tool to achieve greater career satisfaction
and success. Breakthrough
Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the
Eight Creative Talents, by Lynne Levesque. 
Featured in the Spring 2002 issue of Financial
Woman Today, author Lynne Levesque, Ed. D.,
shows readers how to recognize their own unique
type of creativity and how to sharpen and
enhance that talent. She also explores how the
eight creative talents work together in teams
as well as ways to ensure optimal performance
by building teams that are a balance of the
creative talents. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814471056/financialwomenin On Course
for Business, by Suzanne Woo.  Fore! Business
deals are often made on the golf course—where,
once upon a time, women rarely set foot. On
Course for Business, by Suzanne Woo, explains
the role of golf in business and shows women
how to take advantage of this “business tool.”
Woo discovered golf while working as a real
estate attorney and founded BizGolfDynamics in
1996 to explore the connection between business
and golf.
The Secrets
of Word-Of-Mouth Marketing: How to Trigger
Exponential Sales Through Runaway Word of
Mouth, by George Silverman.  Why does one
restaurant soar and another shut down? Often it
is because of the power of word of mouth.
Word-of-mouth marketing has tools and
techniques like any other marketing strategy,
promises George Silverman, author of The
Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. He presents
a Decision Matrix, which helps readers identify
their potential buyers and what messages those
prospects need to hear from friends, coworkers
and advisors. Thriving in
24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World
of Work, by Sally Helgesen.  Sally Helgesen has
done a remarkable job of illuminating the ways
the workplace has infringed upon our lives. She
uses the pop-speak phrase 24/7 to symbolize the
transformation of our sense of time through
technology and the blurring of boundaries
between work and home. Helgesen details changes
including the shift from an industrial economy
to a Successful
Woman's Guide to Working Smart: Ten Strengths
That Matter Most, by Caitlin Williams.  Find a
niche for yourself, make the most of every
situation, add value, and be ready for just
about anything. These are the rules for women
in the new workplace. With scores of interviews
and a thorough review of the best practices of
successful workingwomen and leading
organizations, Successful Woman's Guide to
Working Smart brings to life the strategies and
tools women need to overcome obstacles and
capitalize on the opportunities of today's
world of work. Author Caitlin Williams brings
fresh thinking to the new ways women can
demonstrate their skills, contribute their
talent, and take their place at the table where
the work gets shaped, strategies get created,
and decisions get made. Winning
Roles for Career-Minded Women: Understanding
the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change
Them for Success at Work, by Binnie Kafrissen. 
Do you have trouble promoting yourself at work?
Do you avoid plum assignments for fear of
failure? Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women:
Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and
How to Change Them for Success at Work
identifies six roles that women commonly assume
in the workplace: peacekeeper, maverick,
pleaser, caregiver, survivor, and entrepreneur.
Through worksheets and exercises, readers can
understand which of these roles characterize
them and create a path to change.
Career
Compass, by Peggy Simonsen.  This book delivers
an essential career planning tool kit for
everyone who wants to plan strategically for a
values-based work life. With personal stories,
self-assessment exercises, diagnostic tools and
a comprehensive and filed-tested strategic
career management system, Career Compass can
help on develop an individualized career action
plan. Playing with
the Big Boys: Success Secrets of the Most
Powerful Women in Business, by Debra Pestrak. 
What do you need to be more successful in your
career today? Learn from the collective
experience of today's most successful female
executives as they reveal how they worked their
way to the top while sharing their personal
stories of inspiration and encouragement.
Regardless of your organization size or where
you are in your career, you'll find these
must-know skills critical to your success. Work with
Me, by Gini Graham Scott.  Written for everyone
within an organization, this book is filled
with the information and tools needed to take
charge of workplace conflicts. The practical
ERI (Emotion- Reason-Intuition) model can be
used on the job to conquer emotional barriers
to ending conflicts, overcome communication
problems, recognize the organizational and
individual factors that can create friction,
and deal with difficult people. Bring Your
Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice, by Cheryl
Peppers, Alan Briskin.  Bring Your Soul to
Work: An Everyday Practice suggests ways that
readers can use their own experience to grapple
with the gritty realities of the workplace:
from competing demands to cynicism. The
authors, Cheryl Peppers and Alan Briskin, use
case examples, personal stories, inspirational
quotes, reflective questions, and written
exercises to illustrate how to bring spiritual
values to work.
Better
Ethics Now: How to Avoid the Ethics Disaster
You Never Saw Coming, by Christopher G. Bauer. 
Companies routinely lose six percent or more of
their gross profits to ethics-related problems
but rarely see those problems until it is too
late! This book will help readers learn to
easily recognize both potential and actual
ethics problems so that they can be dealt with
both promptly and effectively. Specific
concepts and tools are presented to help
companies of any size reduce their ethics risk
and improve their profits. It provides 'real
world' tools to prevent ethics problems.      
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Leadership & Negotiation

The 10
Lenses: Your Guide to Living & Working in a
Multicultural World, by  Mark A. Williams. 
Business consultant Mark Williams offers 10
lenses to profile how people view race,
culture, and ethnicity in their world. In his
book The 10 Lenses: Your Guide to Living &
Working in a Multicultural World, Williams
describes the lenses and offers strategies to
make businesses, communities, and societies
stronger. The Shadow
Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden
Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success,  by 
Deborah Kolb, Judith Williams.  As featured in
the Paragon Workshop “Getting What You’re
Worth.” Written exclusively for women, this
title shows how to master the hidden agendas
that determine bargaining success. Tips include
how to recognize the shadow
negotiation--unspoken attitudes, hidden
assumptions, and conflicting agendas that drive
the bargaining process. The Book of
Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting
the Results You Want, by Stewart Levine.  For
many people, negotiating an agreement is an
adversarial process. But in this book, conflict
resolution expert Stewart Levine shows how to
design agreements collaboratively to reflect a
clear joint vision of the desired outcome and
produce results. The Book of Agreement provides
ten powerful tools for creating successful
agreements together. These tools help both
parties clarify expectations, establish
standards, and build partnership. More than 25
agreement templates covering all areas of life
are included: professional templates include
financial planners, realtors, therapists,
consultants, and engineers; personal templates
include spouses and domestic partners,
children, and parents. Leading
Teams: Setting the Stage for Great
Performances, by J. Richard Hackman.  Everyone
knows that teams are important to improved work
performance. Organizational expert J. Richard
Hackman explains how to create and sustain
highly effective teams in the book Leading
Teams: Setting the Stage for Great
Performances. He offers five necessary
conditions that leaders can put in place to
increase the likelihood that a team will excel.
A team should: 1) be real, not just be in name
only; 2) have a compelling direction for its
work; 3) have an enabling structure; 4) operate
within a supportive organizational context; and
5) have ample expert coaching.
Partnering:
The New Face of Leadership, by  Larraine Segil,
James A. Belasco, Marshall Goldsmith. 
Partnering is another concept like teamwork:
everyone agrees it is important, but how to get
there? Larraine Segal, Marshall Goldsmith, and
James Belasco asked 40 top management thinkers
to collaborate on defining and implementing
successful partnerships. Their essays are
contained in Partnering: The New Face of
Leadership. As an aside, the authors are
donating their proceeds from the book to
charities supporting families of the September
11 victims. Mentor
Manager, Mentor Parent, by Linda Dowling,
Cecile Culp Mielenz.  Do you ever feel that
being a manager and being a parent have
characteristics in common? Mentor Manager,
Mentor Parent, by Linda Culp Downing and Cecile
Culp Mielenz, provides techniques that work in
both settings to encourage appropriate behavior
and develop meaningful relationships. The Art of
Mentoring: Lead, Follow and Get Out of the Way,
by Shirley, Ph.D. Peddy.  The Art of Mentoring
is rich with insights for those who mentor and
those who benefit from that mentoring. Readers
will discover that mentoring, more than
transferring knowledge, is a reciprocal
relationship between offering people advice and
providing personal insights, support, and
counsel to elevate their achievements and
contributions. In The Art of Mentoring, Dr.
Shirley Peddy shows us how to do this using the
lead, follow, and get out of the way process.
Peddy has devoted more than twenty years to
successfully mentoring people at every level
and in all types of organizations. In the
tradition of Mandino, Blanchard, and Goldratt,
she weaves this knowledge into an educating and
captivating story. Although it cakes place in a
corporate setting, the principles revealed
apply to every mentoring situation. Primal
Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional
Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee,
Richard E. Boyatzis.  Business leaders who
maintain that emotions are best kept out of the
work environment do so at their organization's
peril. Best-selling author Daniel Goleman's
theories on emotional intelligence (EI) have
radically altered common understanding of what
being smart entails, and in Primal Leadership,
he and his coauthors present the case for
cultivating emotionally intelligent leaders.
Can a Girl
Run for President? You Have the Power to
Influence the World Around You, by Christine
Harvey.  Christine Harvey suggests ways that
women can serve as role models and influence
others in her book Can a Girl Run for
President? You Have the Power to Influence the
World Around You. She leads readers through a
step-by-step process to notice and resolve
problems that exist at home, work, or in the
community. She says the idea for the book came
when a ten-year-old girl asked the title
question: Can a girl run for president? The Girls.
Guide to Power and Success, Susan Wilson
Solovic.  Attorney, consultant, and former TV
news anchor Susan Wilson Solovic gives advice
to transform good girls into high-achieving
women in the book The Girls Guide to Power and
Success. She suggests strategies to seize
opportunities, take responsibility for one’s
own finances, and avoid trying to take too much
on. DNA
Leadership Through Goal-Driven Management, by
James R. Ball.  DNA Leadership Through
Goal-Driven Management, by James Ball is the
complete reference for success in achieving
your goals. It includes MOSAIC, and GOAL-DRIVEN
MANAGEMENT methodologies, and much, much more. The Third
Shift, by Michele Kremen Bolton.  The Third
Shift identifies three challenges women face:
self-expressing vs. conforming to expectations;
getting the job done vs. worrying about others
feelings; and, spending time on achievements
vs. service to others, and shows how women can
manage these challenges, turning the third
shift’s self- doubt into an oasis of
self-awareness.
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Money

Smart
Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich
Future for You and Your Partner, by David Bach.
 Bachs nine steps are not instant change
techniques or chirpy little quips to recite to
yourself whenever you go to balance your
checkbook. Instead, the first few steps include
a series of exercises that will help you
determine what you know (and don't know, or
understand) about saving and investing, what
role money should play in your life (which
includes understanding your values), and how to
work together toward a common financial goal.
From there, Bach teaches his readers how to
account for disappearing money, how to build
retirement, security, and dream baskets of
wealth (providing detailed options for all
three), and how to avoid the most common
financial mistakes most couples make. Though
the focus of the book is predominantly on
working with your existing income, Bach
includes a final chapter entitled Increase Your
Income by 10 Percent in Nine Weeks. The
Million-Dollar Car and the $250,000 Pizza, by
Allyson Lewis.  Everyone can relate to cars and
pizza, and that is how Allyson Lewis
illustrates the dollars and sense behind
saving. Why not, instead of spending $20 a week
on pizza, invest $20 a week at a nine percent
return, and watch it become $250,000 over 35
years? Or, take a $340 car payment and invest
it in a stock mutual fund, and watch it become
a million dollars in 35 years? Lewis doesn’t
tell the reader to give up pizza or forego a
car, but she guides the reader through an
in-depth analysis of the current state of their
finances, and shows the would-be investor how
to create the personal and financial goals to
power their own investment plan. Lewis outlines
the key issues such as: budgeting, developing
an investment strategy, determining risk
tolerance and asset allocations, and how to
stay on track.

Music

Beyond the
Wall (music CD), by Mark Romero.  The long
awaited release of Marks next music CD!
Featuring a fusion of Jazz, Rock & Latin
rhythms. This CD will transform the environment
it is played in as well as entertain the
listener. Guaranteed to reduce your stress and
improve your state of being.


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