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 4-hour workweek- Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Year written/published: 2007
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

First and Foremost
Step 1: D is for Definition
Step 2: E is for Elimination
Step 3: A is for Automation
Step 4: L is for Liberation

Some quotations:
Whenever you find yourself on the side on the amjority, [...]

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Ever wondered why some countries have left hand driving and others have right hand driving?? Here’s an interesting peak at the history and origin…
In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to [...]

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It has long been a tenet of business theory that the best decisiosn are amde after careful review and consideration. Only then can a practical decision be made. Now that model is being questioned by some business thinkers in the light of the theories of Malcolm Gladwell, who states that human beings make better decisions [...]

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White collar refers to salaried professionals white Blue collar refers to job with manual labour earning hourly wage.
This term was first used by Upton Sinclair in 1930s where the color of overalls or coveralls indicated occupational status: blue for workers, brown for foremen, and white for professional staff such as engineers.

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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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GMAT General

beating GMAT and beyond
beat the GMAT
How i got 770 in GMAT
Manhattan GMAT
GMAT Club

GMAT Verbal

GMAT Grammar
Sentence Correction
Analytical Writing

GMAT Math

GMAT Math

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I’m in love with this shop called PRINTS… A stationery shop based on the minimalism design. Check out their equally simple and classy website

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Ivy League is a group of 8 colleges in North-Western United States that has come to represent academic excellence as well as prestige…

Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

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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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This type of company management is very different from a traditional hierarchial bureacracy, where each employee reports to only one supervisor. The definition of Matrix Organsation as given in WIki:
Matrix management is a type of organizational management in which people with similar skills are pooled for work assignments. For example, all engineers may be in [...]

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I’m very much in love with this concept of 43 folder - 31 days of the months + 12 months of the year. Each of these 43 tabs are labeled with a tickler file and it can be used to keep track of daily stuff to do according to these folders. Some links…

43 folders
GTD
Tickler file
how [...]

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Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow created by David Allen has become highly popular as one of the personal productivity systems. Here’s the workflow diagram:

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Someone told me that France is the top country for tourist destination each year… i couldn’t quite believe… until i saw this list.. i wanted to know were does the world’s tourists flock to ?

France - 75+ million
Spain
United States
China
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Mexico
Austria
Russia

have u visited these?

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Our ATM Card… if you have these symbols behind it, means you can use them at ATM machines anywhere in the world… can you believe it? Means i can use my Singapore’s POSB ATM card in Europe or America!

Cirrus & Maestro worldwide ATM locator

Just look for the symbol behind our ATM card…

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top row, from left, are: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane;
second row, Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin;
and front row, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.
Taken in 1978… the 11 founding members of Microsoft

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the most common ones are (eg. Chevron plotted for one year time frame)
Line Graphs

Candle Stick

HLC (high-low-close)

OHLC (Open High Low Close)

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Book Title: Effective Project Management
Author: James P. Clements & Jack Gido
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Project Management theories and tools
My Comments: This book is a textbook… typically for business students. But i needed a structured book like this to get an overview of what is Project management
Contents page:

Project Management Concepts
Needs Identification
Proposed Solutions
The Project
Planning
Scheduling
Schedule [...]

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some short forms…

AM - Ante Meridiem, before noon in Latin
PM - Post Meridiem, after noon in Latin
UTC - Cordinated Universal Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
DST - Daylight Saving Time/Summer Time [map]

Time zone  and a map of the world. Lastly, the times for many cities around the world.

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