FWI Bookstore

The FWI online bookstore is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Below are our featured selections. FWI 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) Donahue exposes the mountain-climbing myth and its goal-setting metaphor as ineffective, and suggests that the desert is the perfect metaphor to describe the journey of life, especially in times of transition.
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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. Ever wonder what makes us buy from a certain salesperson or prefer one TV news announcer over another? In each case, a human voice is subtly captivating our ear and commanding our attention.Now celebrity voice coach Renee... 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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