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Read moreBOOK REVIEW: No Fear Allowed: A Story of Guts, Perseverance, and Making an IMPACT by Laura Herring
For all those women entrepreneurs who, at some point during their journeys to building their businesses and brands, have woken up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, scared as to what to do next in business or in life, and frozen by the fear of failure, then No Fear Allowed is the book for you.
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: Two Minutes To Make The Sale - by Tori Torres
'Two Minutes to Make the Sale' is Book Two of the 'If You Build It, They Will Come' series. Book One was the introduction, setting a firm foundation for anyone wanting to embark on the path to becoming an entrepreneur, and using the power of online to achieve success. Tori Torres tells the story of how she made the transition from Stay at Home Mom, to becoming a best seling author and entrepreneur.
Read moreESSENTIAL READ: Innovative Women - How the World's Top Female Entrepreneurs Make It Happen by Justin Sachs and Emily Espey
Innovative Women features the top female entrepreneurs and their secrets of the trade. It goes behind the scenes into the female-led businesses and shares the guiding principles, tools and strategies that serve them in competing. If you're looking to start a business, or are looking to build one you've already launched, these women will share their top tips for how you can become successful. The book describes specific steps women can take to combine business success with personal fulfillment and illustrates the benefits of men and women in the workplace and at home.
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: A Woman’s Guide to Bootstrapping a Business by Beverly Sallee Ophoff
For many woman-owned business startups, the early days can be tough and challenging in so many different ways. In particular, the challenge of trying to build a new business, build a new brand, and perhaps launch a new product or service, all with very little capital to play with. There have been many books written on the subject, but few with as much empathy as Beverly Sallee Ophoff shares in her book A Woman’s Guide to Bootstrapping a Business.
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: Million Dollar Women - The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big by Julia Pimsleur
American women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate that men are, but only three percent of female business owners have revenues of over one million dollars. Most women entrepreneurs are stuck at the “mom and pop” level, just getting by, or in many cases, running out of cash. In her book Million Dollar Women, Julia Pimsleur shares her inspiring story of building her own company and raising millions in capital in a guide for women like her who have a great idea and need to find the resources to take it into the big leagues.
Read moreEssential Finance Handbook for Business Owners By Precious MK Mvulane
Reading The Essential Finance Handbook for Business Owners could be one of the most helpful gifts you could ever give yourself as a business owner. It is a great companion for any entrepreneur who is venturing into the world of business, which can often be a daunting place for those starting out. This book has been written to provide expert, easy to understand guidance to business owners to help them to better manage and run their business financial performance, both effectively and efficiently.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Contemporary Design Africa' by Tapiwa Matsinde - Africa’s flourishing contemporary design scene revealed for the first time
In her beautifully presented and insightfully written new book, Contemporary Design Africa, British/Zimbabwean designer, writer and blogger, Tapiwa Matsinde, showcases the work of some of the most creative, inspirational contemporary designers, artisans and cooperatives from across the African continent. Many of the talented women who are leading the way in developing Africa’s contemporary design industries take centre stage.
Read moreEssential Read: Feminine Capital - Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs by Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott
Today, there are over 200,000,000 women business owners around the world. Many of these entrepreneurs are not doing business as usual, nor are they simply leaning in. Rather, according to authors Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott, they are tapping into feminine capital—the unique skills and sensibilities that they have cultivated as women—to create enviable successes.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Do, Disrupt, Change the Status Quo - Or Become It' by Mark Shayler
In his thought provoking book, 'Do, Disrupt, Change the Status Quo - or Become It', Mark Shayler introduces us to the notion of disruption and how we perhaps need to consider doing things differently if we want to succeed as entrepreneurs.
Read moreEssential Read: 'It’s Not Rocket Science' by Mary Spio
Once a shoeless African child, I have had the opportunity to sell technology to companies such as Boeing, to sit at the table with leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies and even to change the movie industry. Who does that? Game Changers do that! Game Changers are the ones who are bold enough and brash enough to believe we can achieve our dreams and change the world in the process.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Your Moment' by Tumi Frazier
In her book, Your Moment, international keynote speaker and life coach, Tumi Frazier, shares her insights and advice on how women can seize their own personal moment and build the positive mindset and self-confidence needed to achieve key goals and ambitions.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Mumpreneur' by Annabel Karmel
In her new book, Mumpreneur, the UK’s leading children’s cookery author, Annabel Karmel, shares her insights and experience in building a successful brand and business empire, from the perspective of a full-time Mum of three children.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Playing Big' by Tara Mohr
In her new book, Playing Big, groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker, Tara Mohr, gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world.
Read moreEssential Read: 'Do Cool Sh*t' by Miki Agrawal
Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After is less of a how-to book and rather more of a personal roller-coaster ride of a story on how one hip, trendy and highly ambitious entrepreneur did it for herself. It is unconventional in its approach, yet hugely inspirational, encouraging, funny and liberating for anyone reading it.
Read moreEssential Read: Dream It, Launch It, Live It by Victoria Colligan
Founder/CEO of Women Who Launch, Victoria Colligan, uses as its starting point the notion that every woman is the entrepreneur of her own life. It recognises that no matter what the project, hobby, passion, start-up, business expansion, or career/life change of direction, women are always in the process of launching something.
Read moreEssential Read: Crazy Is a Compliment - The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
Linda Rottenberg, the co-founder and CEO of Endeavour, in her new book, Crazy Is A Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags, (we love this book title!) encourages everyone to start thinking and acting like an entrepreneur. In today’s highly competitive and fast-paced world, she reminds us all of the need to be nimble, adaptive, daring—and maybe even a little crazy—or risk being left behind.
Read moreInterview with Rania H. Anderson author of the new book UNDETERRED: The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies
LoA had the great pleasure of chatting with Rania Habiby Anderson, the inspirational author and leading expert on the professional advancement of business women in developing and emerging economies, who was speaking from her home in Kansas in the USA.
Read moreEssential Viewing: Dr Ola Orekunrin talks 'Womenomics' at TEDx Berlin
Source: TEDx Berlin | Published on January 26, 2015
Dr. Ola Orekunrin is an inspirational social entrepreneur, medical doctor, and trainee helicopter pilot who founded West Africa’s first air ambulance service, Flying Doctors Nigeria, which saves hundreds of lives across the region every year. Watch this fascinating TEDx Berlin presentation by Ola on the strength of women in business and "Womenomics".
Read moreEssential Read: ‘Entrepreneurial Strengths Finder’ by Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal
Entrepreneurial Strengths Finder is a really interesting read for any entrepreneur that is trying to understand how best to achieve business success and to identify those traits that make success more of a possibility. This book focuses on the psychology of the entrepreneur, understanding what drives entrepreneurs to start a business venture in the first place, and thereafter sustain and grow it into a successful company. It examines the critical personality characteristics and behaviors that lead to business venture creation and success, and asks key questions about whether an entrepreneur is born, or can learn the skills required.
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