Recommended Reading

Building confidence
Career development
Career exploration
Creating work you love
Expatriate life and work
Financial success
Managing change
Realising your dreams
Self-discovery
BUILDING CONFIDENCETop
 

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Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Susan Jeffers
Whatever your fears, this international bestseller will give you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to handle any situation.
 

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How to Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie
How to develop poise, gain self-confidence, improve your memory, make your meaning clear, begin and end a talk, interest and charm your audience and win an argument without making enemies.
 
CAREER DEVELOPMENTTop
 

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The One Thing You Need to Know
Marcus Buckingham
Reveals the central qualities that lie at the core of great managing, great leadership and great careers. Chapter 5 on sustained individual success is particularly good.
 
CAREER EXPLORATIONTop
 

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Do What You Are
Tieger and Barron
Applies Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality Type to career choice. The authors identify occupations that are poplular with your Type and offer a rundown of your likely work-related strengths and weaknesses.
 

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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was
Barbara Sher
In this best selling book, therapist and career counsellor Barbara Sher identifies the most common reasons people have difficulty figuring out what they want to do with their lives. She describes many useful exercises to help you overcome what’s holding you back.
 

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What Colour is Your Parachute
With more than 9 million copies sold, this is possibly the greatest career search classic of all time. Packed full of practical exercises to help you identify and get your ideal job. Particularly useful advice on the career search process and the power of informational interviewing.
 
CREATING WORK YOU LOVETop
 

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Making a Living Without a Job - Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love
Barbara J. Winter
A great book for anyone who wants to be their own boss. Lots of creative ideas about how to turn your passion into profit, and insight into the power of multiple income streams.
 

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This Time I Dance! - Creating the work you love
by Tama J. Kieves
Ex Harvard lawyer Tama Kieves tells the story of how she left her corporate life to rediscover her creativity and pursue a writing career. A very honest account of her fears and self doubts and how she overcame them to become a successful speaker, workshop facilitator and sought-after career coach.
 
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A Career in Your Suitcase
Jo Parfitt
Covers key issues such as coping with transition, creating portable careers based on your passions, networking, trailing males, dual careers and repatriation.
 

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Find Your Passion
Jo Parfitt
20 tips and 20 tasks to help you uncover the things you love to do by well-known expatriate writer Jo Parfitt. Includes inspiring stories of expatriates who have found their passion and turned it into their ideal career.
 
FINANCIAL SUCCESSTop
 

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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Understand money and how to make it work for you.
 

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Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Originally published in 1937 this seminal work introduces the 13 principles of wealth and success, based on Hill's interviews with 500 of the most affluent men and women of the time.
 
MANAGING CHANGETop
 

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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges
A roadmap for successfully navigating change. The first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition, it identifies and explains the three key periods of endings, the neutral zone and new beginnings.
 
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Power and Soul
compiled by Alexandria K. Brown
42 successful entrepreneurs share the secret of how they created the business and life of their dreams.
 

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Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams
Steven K. Scott
Stories, advice and exercises to help you reach your dreams - whether business or personal. Chapters devoted to overcoming fear of failure or criticism, gaining a clear vision, communicating effectively, finding the right mentors and partners, taking control of your time and igniting your passions.
 

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The 7 Rules of Success
Fiona Harrold
Harrold introduces the success rules some of the world's top achievers live by. Contains case studies and exercises to help you adopt them for yourself.
 

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The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Jack Canfield
64 principles for successful life and work by the author of the internationally best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
 

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You Can If You Think You Can
Norman Vincent Peale
By one of the United States' most influential clergymen in the last century. This engaging book champions the power of positive thinking in a style that is rich in anecdotes and gentle humour.
 
SELF-DISCOVERYTop
 

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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers
Explains the personality types described by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and their practical significance for your success at school, at a job, in a career or in your personal relationships.
 

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StrengthsFinder 2.0
by Tom Rath
A new and upgraded edition of the online test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths. Each copy of the book contains a unique identification number that you can use to access the StrengthsFinder internet test. Based on over 25 years’ Gallup research, the StrengthsFinder identifies your top 5 signature themes or talents. The book includes 10 strategies for developing each of your top 5 talents into lasting strengths.