Business & Investing
February 2023
 
 
Upcoming Business Programs at EPL

Monday, Feb. 6 - LinkedIn Profile Portraits (afternoon and evening session)
Thursday, Feb. 23 - Elmhurst Business Connection
Tuesday, March 7 - Negotiate Like a Pro in Any Business Scenario
Thursday, March 9 - Business Tool Training: Mergent Intellect
 
 
Book an Appointment

The Library's Business Services Specialist meets with local businesses and organizations to help with market research, sales contact lists, social media strategies, e-commerce ideas, and more. Contact us at (630) 279-8696 or complete our appointment form.
 
 
EPL's Most Checked-Out Business Books of 2022
 
Get a Grip : How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business
by Gino Wickman

The Entrepreneurial Operating System has helped thousands of businesses worldwide. A complete entrepreneurial toolkit, EOS has helped thousands of businesses get to where they want to be.

In Get a Grip, learn how Swan Services leaders learned to develop and commit to a clear vision, establish focus, build discipline, and create a healthier and more cohesive team.

Get a Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial leaders the world over and guide them to get their companies on track.
Accounting for Dummies
by John A Tracy

Features the latest information on accounting methods and standards, and explains how to avoid fraud, analyze profits, prepare financial reports, manage budgets, and determine product costs.
What Color is Your Parachute? 2022 : Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success
by Richard Nelson Bolles

Fully revised for 2022 by the Vanderbilt University Career Center director, this new edition is filled with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, and provides the tools to discover—and land—the job of your dreams.
Fair Play : A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
by Eve Rodsky

A first book by the founder of the Philanthropy Advisory Group and expert consultant for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine project outlines revolutionary, real-world solutions to the equal distribution of unpaid and unrecognized domestic labor typically performed by women.
Make No Small Plans : Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community
by Elliott Bisnow

The consummate motivational playbook on how to think big and dream bigger, by the founders of the renowned Summit leadership series. Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwarz founded the acclaimed Summit leadership conference with just a vision and a prayer. In 2009, with no money in the bank, and no special connections, they found themselves cold calling frantically as they struggled to make the hard transition from hosting free leadership events, to a ticketed event in Aspen. From those spare beginnings, they have built nothing less than a leadership empire. In Make No Small Plans, they reveal the lessons and insights that can encourage every one of us to dream bigger and do something great with our lives.
Hearts Touched with Fire : How Great Leaders Are Made
by David R. Gergen

A former White House adviser to four U.S. presidents draws on his experiences as well as past historical lessons to reveal the time-tested secrets of dynamic leadership.
Joy at Work : Organizing Your Professional Life
by Marie Kondō

The best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and the psychologist author of Stretch share anecdotes, studies and strategies for promoting workplace fulfillment through focused organization and productivity.
Love + Work : How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do it for the Rest of Your Life
by Marcus Buckingham

This empowering book shows you how to decode your own loves in both work and life, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and love.
The Bullet Journal Method : Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
by Ryder Carroll

A digital product designer and inventor of the Bullet Journal organizational system shows us how to track the past, order the present and design the future, providing the structure needed to go from passenger and pilot of your own life.
Fanatical Prospecting : The Ultimate Guide for Starting Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, and Cold Calling
by Jeb Blount

In a comprehensive book about sales prospecting, Jeb Blount reveals the secret to improving sales productivity and growing your income fast. You'll gain the power to blow through resistance and objections, gain more appointments, start more sales conversations, and close more sales.
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