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Ever wonder why the success rate of start-up companies is so low? In this inspirational and informative book, A Chip Off the Silicon Block: The Power of Entrepreneurial Thinking, entrepreneur Carol Latham demonstrates how the power of sound entrepreneurial thinking can lead to positive results in the most daunting of circumstances. Carol’s company, Thermagon Inc., evolved as an offshoot of the explosive growth of silicon chips driving the computer industry and the information age.

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If you want to see the concept of transformational leadership through empathy in action, then look no further than Sherry Deutschmann’s book, Lunch with Lucy: Maximize Profits by Investing in Your People. This is a very personal book by someone who knows just how important employees are to the success of any business. She has a fascinating and unique business model to share with readers that will transform not only the way we think about our people, but how we embrace them as the genuine drivers of our business success.

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Dr. Shellie Hipsky’s daughter noted that her mom no longer wore power suits daily for work. As a successful motivational media company’s CEO and the nonprofit leader of The Global Sisterhood, Dr. Shellie helps inspire and empower the women of the world. Her daughter Alyssa stated she was always wearing either, “ball gowns for charity events or running around in yoga pants with her kids making deals on the phone.” This practical book takes you step by step from vision to startup and beyond as Dr. Shellie describes her rise from tenured professor to becoming an award-winning “Best Business Woman” and “Entrepreneur of the Year” whose company has grown massively in impact and revenue. The book takes you through 10 key Success Secrets, from how to be authentic in your leadership and marketing to attract the right customers and clients, through to building your dream team in your business.

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With women leading only twenty-four Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2 percent of US venture capital, and the continued presence of sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown, founder of Big Think, a collection of experts across all fields and disciplines that are either at the top of their field or disrupting it - shares her story in an entertaining and educational light.

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Talent Liberation, the new book by Deborah Hartung, is for every business leader, entrepreneur and startup founder who has been wanting to axe the annual performance appraisal process in their business, but is unsure of either how to do that or of what to replace annual appraisals with.

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If you wake up on a Monday morning with ambition for your business to grow each day but by Friday haven’t fulfilled your goals, then you need help. Business coach Jo James has written a new book, Make Your Mondays Matter, aimed at helping entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level in terms of growth and income. This award-winning book will give you proven strategies for success and one full year of support mechanisms to keep you on track.

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If you want to stop over thinking and start your business but are experiencing analysis paralysis because you are overwhelmed with information, then author and entrepreneur Naomi Alabi has the answers. Why? Because she has personally been there. In her new book, Anatomy Of Building A Business That Works For You, she says that our world was built by people who dared to dream bigger. People who took their ideas, were patient through a number of small tasks which ultimately grew into the big businesses that we all love to celebrate.

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In her new book, NOtivation: Use the Power of NO to Make Your First Million Dollars, Dr Kristin Kahle explains why she has a love/hate relationship with the word “no.” It’s not her favorite word. As a female entrepreneur in a male dominated industry, Kristin has heard the word “no” more times than she can count. Sound familiar?

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Mumpreneur Evolution, by Erin Thomas Wong, is a collection of insightful and inspiring interviews with 23 women who share their stories of building businesses around family life. Millions of women around the world are choosing a different way of working. They are not opting to return to a full time career working 60 hours a week, but they are instead carving their own paths, building businesses which allow them to be a mother and a business owner side-by-side.

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So many women entrepreneurs find sales and marketing the tough part of their businesses, it doesn’t always come naturally to them. But in her new book, Energetic Selling & Marketing; A New Way to Create Extraordinary Growth in Your Business, author, entrepreneur and sales guru, Lenka Lutonska, has a different approach. By focusing energetically on five critical areas of business, she shows readers how to change their current ways of thinking and doing, and instead to experience growth by adopting a new way of selling and marketing.

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If you want to know the secret to taking your business from mediocre to meaningfully different, then author Kate Colbert has the answer in her new book Think Like a Marketer. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a management consultant or the owner of a small retail business, the ability to think like a marketer will give you a competitive edge.

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According to author Rinat Keinan in her new book Business Empowerment: 8 Simple Steps to Master the Game, most idea generators quit in the early stage, 30% don’t vest after 1 year, and 50% don’t make it over time. She thinks too many great ideas fall because of wrong decisions.

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Starting a business and running one is challenging. What do you do first? What should you pay attention to? What tools are there to help the modern woman entrepreneur? In her new book, The Key Leadership Qualities It Takes to Be a Boss, A Woman Entrepreneur in Business Today, Judith Baker brings you all the insights you need.

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For entrepreneurs, pitching is do or die. But many women find it tough to pitch. But help is at hand in Debi Kleiman’s new book, First Pitch. She understands that to succeed with your startup, you must persuade investors, advisors, customers, and other potential partners to join you on your journey. It can be intimidating, but First Pitch is here to help.

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"Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me This Sh*t Before?" by Marcella Allison and Laura Gale is the book you wish you had already read. A collection of more than 60 letters from female leaders of multimillion dollar companies, to solopreneurs and every kind of woman in between, these stories are both a lifeline and a roadmap for women navigating our increasingly complex world - and running businesses at the same time.

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In New Startup Mindset, Sandra Shpilberg will show you a new way to succeed as an entrepreneur! This provocative startup tale of success exposes Silicon Valley’s startup myths and sets forth a new approach for aspiring and current founders to build companies that make an impact.

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A Woman's Work: The book every successful businesswoman wishes she'd read — by Sonja Leason, Dr Areej Khataybih, Clare Downes, Jeannie McGillivray, Jill Martin, Lorraine Gannon, Mary Grant, Natalie Jameson, Steph Middleton-Foster and Vicki Wusche.

As a woman, it can feel that the odds are stacked against you in business and when more women than ever before are self-employed and starting businesses, why is it that so few of them are able to scale and get the success they deserve? A heated discussion on this subject by ten super-successful businesswomen led to the creation of this book.

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If you ever wanted to find out how to build your own personal female brand to help you on your entrepreneurial journey, then award-winning global brand specialist Kubi Springer has the answer. In her new book, I Am My Brand: How to Build Your Brand Without Apology, Kubi brings all her experience and offers essential advice on how to develop and attain personal brand success.

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The Balanced Entrepreneur: A Guide to Creating a Purposeful Life and Living it Unapologetically by Jessica Dennis, is an inspirational manual for entrepreneurs. It is relevant for those who are just starting out on their business journeys to those who are seasoned business owners. Jessica shares her experience and advice on how other women entrepreneurs can build successful businesses whilst at the same time living their best lives without qualification.