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Career Resources July 2026 |
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Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love
by Bill Gurley
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Perfect for graduation or anyone who needs inspiration to step off the career conveyer belt, this book will teach you how to find your unique dream job and avoid a career you'll regret. After all, life is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. Shouldn't you spend it doing something you love? I love the book. It's such a practical guide, and I'm sure it will be a very popular gift for college grads.--Sara Eisen, CNBC Fantastic. A variety of useful insights and examples that converge into one story that underlies remarkable success in nearly any field: The relentless hunger to learn about the thing you love.--James Clear, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits After college Bill Gurley landed a job at a famous tech company. It should have been a dream come true--but he was surprisingly bored. So, Gurley leapt into the unknown, eventually finding his place in the world of venture capital, the beginning of a remarkable investing career. It turns out, Gurley's happy ending is rare. Nearly six in ten people would do things differently if they could start over. This is the trap of career regret. So how can we avoid it? What can we learn from people at the top of their fields who love what they do? The culmination of Gurley's decade-long project to unpack the components of success, Runnin' Down a Dream identifies six principles to flourish in your chosen career: the antidotes to career regret. From developing obsessive curiosity to the art of building strong peer groups, these timeless principles add up to a playbook not just for success, but a purpose-filled life. Written in Gurley's straight-talk voice and revealing the captivating stories of industry titans like talent agent Lorrie Bartlett, restaurateur Danny Meyer, and sports executive Sam Hinkie, Runnin' Down a Dream will inspire a new generation to find their place in the world, while offering a much-needed rebuttal to the idea that hustle and happiness are incompatible.
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Work for What's Next: Why Workplace Culture Is Failing and How the Next Generation Can Fix It
by Amanda Schneider
A provocative guide to rethinking connection and trust across generations in a digital-first world. In Work for What's Next: Why Workplace Culture is Failing and How the Next Generation Can Fix It, researcher and entrepreneur Amanda Schneider, delivers a modern and accessible framework for building trust across generational, geographic, and digital divides. Schneider exposes how outdated, unwritten norms are holding us back - and what to do instead. The book reveals how to build authentic connections in an always on world by moving beyond generational stereotypes to uncover real patterns and prototype better solutions. Work for What's Next offers a research-driven roadmap for the future--empathetic, practical, and designed for a world that never stops changing. Inside the book: Research-backed insights into the hidden generational patterns that are shaping how we connect, collaborate, and lead today-- and will define the workplace of tomorrow Practical frameworks for building trust and authentic connection across generations, geographies and new ways of working -- in any industry Real-world examples and future-focused guidance to help you anticipate what's coming next--and prepare for it Perfect for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, HR professionals, sellers and team leaders, Work for What's Next offers insights inspired by Gen Z - but designed to help all of us get the most from every member of today's workforce.
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Mastering Your Mental Game: Secrets from My Twenty-Five Years on the PGA Tour--A Practical Guide to Improving Your Performance in Sports, Work, and Li
by Julie Elion
A behind-the-scenes sage of the golf world and renowned mental health coach reveals her methods to achieving elite performance in sports, work, and life, drawing from her experience with top PGA Tour champions. Over the past twenty-five years Julie Elion has been the silent force behind some of the most prominent athletes of our time. Her clients on the PGA Tour, who have included Justin Thomas, Max Homa, and Wyndam Clark, have racked up over $500 million in career earnings and twenty-five major championship wins. Known as Stealth for her discreet but potent coaching style, Elion has been honing her unique methods for decades. Now, she's ready to share her winning strategies in this transformative guide that blends mental health coaching and mindfulness to help improve the way you think, perform, and succeed. Elion's approach goes far beyond traditional performance coaching. Her philosophy is holistic. By integrating practical mental health tools focused on behavioral and cognitive cues with a deeper appreciation and understanding of oneself, she helps individuals unlock peak performance. Her clients gain insight into their personal history, character, family, and relationships and then use those insights to become stronger athletes and leaders. Elion has worked one on one to empower business leaders, executives, and teams across various sports including the NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA, and LPGA. Packed with practical tools, Mastering Your Mental Game will help you overcome mental blocks, build resilience, and reach your highest potential. Whether you're a golfer chasing championships, an athlete pursuing greatness, or a professional striving for career breakthroughs, Elion's insights will give you the edge you need to achieve excellence.
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Pitch Your Potential: The Formula for Winning Dream Jobs, Awards, and Elite Opportunities
by Vicki Johnson
Become the unexpected candidate who lands ultra-competitive career and academic opportunities. We all want to compete at the highest level in our careers and land dream opportunities. But what do we do when the number and caliber of competitors are high, and others tell us we don't have any chance of getting selected? In Pitch Your Potential: The Formula for Winning Dream Jobs, Awards, and Elite Opportunities, Dr. Vicki Johnson, admissions expert and nationally recognized founder of ProFellow, offers her breakthrough MATCH ME Formula(R), which has helped thousands of people go from rejected to selected. You'll learn how to overcome the discouragement of gatekeepers and apply proven strategies to create a winning personal pitch in writing and speaking to enter elite career tracks, get accepted to top universities, and win nationally competitive fellowships and awards. You'll learn how to: Overcome mindset challenges that sabotage your effort Define your goals and identify opportunities that are a perfect fit Develop a memorable and compelling pitch, tailored to each opportunity Express your unique story on paper and in interviews Land the opportunities you have your heart set on Pitch Your Potential is the state-of-the-art book on the personal pitch that will help you develop your self-confidence and land dream roles in an increasingly competitive world. You don't have to listen to those who say your goals are out of reach. Become the leader you want to be.
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How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work
by Jodi Kantor
With warmth, honesty, and inspired wisdom, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jodi Kantor expands on her triumphant Columbia University commencement address, tackling the question, How, in this environment, is anyone supposed to find and start their life's work? Jodi Kantor's groundbreaking reporting has toppled media magnates, sparked reform worldwide, and foretold many of the unsettling changes we see in the workplace today. But before all of this, Kantor was kicked off her college newspaper. Society expects perfection, but Kantor knows those first professional steps are often rocky. She also knows that young people are facing new and frightening terrain, with political upheaval, skyrocketing costs of living, and the unknowns of AI. Kantor casts aside platitudes and false hope to offer tangible help. Work is how we spend much of our time. It's our engine of progress: how cancer therapies are invented, political campaigns won, thrilling art created and matched with an audience. Instead of letting cynicism take over, Kantor identifies two principles to help young people discover their life's work: craft and need. By pairing the two, they can navigate tough, sensitive choices: how to think about money. How much risk to take on. When to buck what others are saying. Powerful and provocative, How to Start is a statement of faith for young people as they make their way through uncertain times, offering wisdom, strategy, and a set of aspirations to launch their careers and last their whole lives.
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Authentic Selling: Be Real to Seal the Deal
by Kendrick Shope
The first thing you need to know about selling is this: Selling is helping. But before I tell you more about that, let me tell you how I got here. When I was little-and no, I'm not telling you my whole story or what year I was born-but when I was just five freaking years old, I thought I could change the world. I didn't really know what changing the world meant, by the way.-- Provided by publisher.
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Building a Storybrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
by Donald Miller
Since the original publication of Building A Storybrand, over one million business leaders have discovered Donald Miller's powerful Storybrand Framework and they are making millions. Now, the classic resource for connecting with customers has been fully revised and updated, making it even more powerful to prepare you for today's challenges.
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Selling Online for Dummies
by Paul Waddy
You've probably heard that online stores and ecommerce just had their best year in history. But have you ever wondered how to start selling online? Do you dream of staking out a piece of online real estate and grabbing a big share of that multi-billion-dollar industry? In Selling Online For Dummies, accomplished exec and online shopping guru Paul Waddy shows you exactly how to get started in setting up your online shop. With an expert's eye for business, and an easy-to-understand take on the technical stuff, Waddy takes you from digital start to finish as he discusses topics like: how to find hot products to sell, and what to do if you don't have an idea for one yet; building a website from scratch by choosing the right developer and platform; marketing your site by email and on Google, Instagram, Facebook, and more; how to deal with payments, currencies, taxes, and duties--Publisher's webpage.
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Karmic Selling: Earning Business by Earning Trust
by Stan Gwizdak
Lasting business success doesn't come from signing a single deal here or there. It comes from long-term business relationships. When you take the time build up a circle of business friends that you truly trust and like working with, you'll find that achieving success becomes easier--and more enjoyable. It all starts with dropping the chip on your shoulder and being your authentic self. Stan Gwizdak has found that his however-I-can-help approach is the key to personal and professional satisfaction. In Karmic Selling, he explains how to apply his clean heart approach to the business world, giving you practical tools to guide you through your M1, M2, M3, and beyond. He has used this technique to build his own consultancy, The Kormac Group, after having spent 20-plus years working for companies like General Electric, Honeywell, and Textron.
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