Book Title: Dancing on the Glass Ceiling - Tap into your true strengths, Activate your vision and Get what you really want out of your career
Author: Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredricks
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Feminine Leaderhip at wor
Some extracts:
feminine based leadership:

be proactive
build relationships upward
build a network
find the solution yourself

powerful goal setting…

move toward [...]

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Book Title: Nice Girls don’t get the corner Office - 101 unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers
Author: Lois P. Frankel
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
what’s a girl to do?

give yourself permission to move from girlhood to womanhood
visualise yourself as you want to be
talk back to the fearful voice inside your head
Surround [...]

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Book Title: The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Year written/published: 2008
Book Source: Google Books
Summary: Life stories… head fakes from Randy Pausch
My Comments: I loved Randy’s funky funny wise words. He’s an inspiration… 
Some extracts:
For his kids…
These lectures are routinely videotaped. I knew what I was doing that day. Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was [...]

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Book Title: 168 Feng Shui Ways to Energise your Life
Author: Lillian Too
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Library
My Comments: My first reading on Feng Shui… very interesting take on objects and surroundings and how they affect the chi (energy) around us.
Some extracts:
Killing cycle of the elements:

wood kills earth
earth kills water
water kills fire
fire kills metal
metal kills wood

hostile images bring [...]

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Book Title: Understanding Exposure - How to shoot great photographs with a film or digital camera
Author: Bryan Peterson
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: 
My Comments: being armed with a new digital camera, i have found the greatest pleasure comes in the ultimate control of the exposure for each photo we take… Bryan Peterson has been [...]

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Book Title: The Art of War for women - Sun Tzu’s ancient strategies and wisdom for winning at work
Author: Ching-Ning Chu
Year written/published:
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: I liked this book… short and to-the-point! Very applicable!
Contents page:

Ji (Planning): The elements of Strategy
Doing Battle: Speedy Victory
Strategy: Know thyself and Others
Disposition: Win First, Then Fight
Momentum: Using timing [...]

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Book Title: Awaken the Giant WIthin: How to take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny
Author: Anthony Robbins
Year written/published: 1991
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some quotations:
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live
 ~Boris Pasternak
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
~Thomas Edison 
We are what and [...]

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Book Title: The art of war
Author: Sun Tzu
Year written: 5th BC
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Millitary strategies
My Comments: Excellent book. I love books that transcend time and generations to hold deep meaning and significance even till today and this is definitely one of them. Although i am not enagaged in any millitary executions, I have [...]

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Book Title: Creative Utopia - 12 ways to realise total creativity
Author: Theo Stephan Williams
Year written/published: 2002
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

Setting Goals for Success
Keeping a Journal
Becoming wireless in a wireful society
Feng Shui
Making you own Mandala
Thinking out of the Proverbial Box
Seeing COlour differently
Putting the storm into Brainstorm
Fateful Encounters
Meditation
Intuitive Thinking as a Creative Pathway
Playing the Instruments

Some extracts:
Fundamental [...]

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Book Title: Magic Ladder to Success
Author: Napolean Hill
Year written/published:
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: A compiled
Contents page:

The master mind
a definite chief aim
self-confidence
habit of saving
initiative and leadership
imagination
enthusiasm
self-control
habit of doing more than paid for
pleasing personality
accurate thinking
concentration
cooperation
profiting by failure
tolerance
practising the Golden Rule
habit of health

Some extracts:
Imagination
Years before it became a reality, the alte John Wannamaker saw, in his own imaginsation, [...]

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Book Title: How to have a Beautiful Mind
Author: Edward de Bono
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: A truly beautiful mind is one with different perpectives, view points, the one who can take alternatives and opinions that are much different from my own. I have always liked De Bono’s books… and this is definitely one [...]

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Book Title: Self Leadership and the 101 Minute Manager
Authors: Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler, Laurence Hawkins
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: How do you steer yourself
Some extracts:
Points of power

Knowledge Power
Position power
task power
relationship
personal power

Tricks of leadership:

Challenge assumed constraints
Celebrate your points of power
Collaborate for Success

Perhaps your greatest weakness is not realizing your own power
Ask yourself 2 questions [...]

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Book Title: How to enjoy life and your job
Author: Dale Carnegie
Year written/published: 1984
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: A compilation of Dale Carnegie’s books on How to win friends and influence people and How to stop worrying and start living
My Comments: I have always taken Dale Carnegie as relationship/diplomacy guru when dealing with people… another revision [...]

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Book Title: Ready for Anything – 52 Productivity Principles for Work and life
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Some extracts:
Some of the principles…
1. leaning up create new directions
2. You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you’re not doing
3. Knowing your commitments creates better choices
4. Getting to [...]

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Book Title: The Hig-Tech Personal Efficiency Program
Author: Kerry Gleeson
Year written/published:1998
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Organising your electronic resources to maximise your time and efficiency
Some extracts:
Paper control points at work area:
1. Tray system – In, Out, Reading, Pending
2. Reference files
3. Archive files
4. Woking files
5. Your work
6. Recycling/dust bin
Working files usually contain 6 types of information:
1. Fingertip [...]

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Book Title: Why the toast always lands butter side down
Author: Richard Robinson
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: The Science of Murphy’s Law… a comic humorous book!
Some extracts:
Some really hilarious comic statements… and some are really food for thought as well!
• The longer you look at the page, more words don’t go in
• Each solution opens door [...]

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Book Title: Getting Things Done – The art of Stress Free productivity
Author: David Allen
Year written/published: 2001
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: personal Productivity system
My Comments: Excellent book!
Contents page:
1. Art of Getting Things Done
2. Practicing Stress-Free Productivity
3. The Power of the Key Principles
Some extracts:
2 simple objectives…
The methods I present here are all based on 2 key objectives [...]

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Book Title: Organise Your Life - Free yourself from Clutter & find more personal time
Author: Roni Eisenberg with kate Kelly
Year written/published: 2007
Summary: Organising in all facets of life… Life, Household, Kitchen, Holidays, Traveling, Office… etc.
My Comments: Very useful book!
Some extracts:
Toss Every month:

ATM and Bank deposit slips
Credit Card receipts
Sale receipts and minor purchases

Toss after 2 years:

Monthly [...]

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Book Title: The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library, Chapter 1
Summary: Atheism and why there’s no God
Contents page:

A deeply religious non-believer
Arguments for God’s existence
Why there almost certainly is no God
The roots of religion
The roots of morality: Why we are good?
The ‘good’ book and the changing moralist zeitgeist
What’s wrong with religion? Why [...]

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Book Title: Netherlands – Lonely planet
Author: Neal Bedoford, Simon Sellers
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Travel guide to Netherlands
Contents:

Amsterdam
Noord Holland & Flevoland
Utrecht
Zuid Holland & Zeeland
Friesland
Groningen & Drenthe
Overijssel & Gelderland
Noord Brabant & Limburg

Some extracts:
the lay of the lowlands…

Begin in Amsterdam. Visit the Van Gogh Museum or the Rijksmuseum and rent a bicycle to explore the [...]

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