Research Category: Jobs & Education

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg

The Facebook CEO and "Fortune" top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately. 

Hacking Your Education
Dale J. Stephens

Reveals how to achieve personal and financial success not by going to college but instead by acquiring real-world skills through self-education.

Rebooting Work: Transform how you Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship
Maynard Webb

A veteran of the technology industry and a leader in the technology and business community presents a unique framework that demonstrates how to leverage technology to create better job opportunities and more balanced lives.

Knock ‘em Dead Job Interview: How to Turn Job Interviews into Job Offers
John Martin Yate

Presents a set of rules and guidelines for effective jobinterviewing, providing the thought behind three hundred common interview questions and answers and including tips on stressful situations and strange interview venues.

Born to Rise: A Story of Children and Teachers Reaching their Highest Potential
Deborah Kenny

After her husband's death, the author, devoting herself to radically reinventing public education, recounts the journey that led her to risk her life savings to open schools in Harlem while proving that even children living in poverty could learn at a high level. 

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Comprehensive tool that provides demographic data. Allows prospective entrepreneurs, long-time business owners & students to collect, analyze & act quickly upon data.

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