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Careerpreneurs: Lessons from Leading Women Entrepreneurs on Building a Career Without Boundaries

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Dr. Moore's Careerpreneurs...is an outstanding, clearly written treasury of information. The author interviewed over 100 women entrepreneurs--most of whom have been recognized for their achievements by organizations such as Working Women, the National Association of Women Business Owners, Al Gore's Hammer Award, Crain's Award, and as Entrepreneur of the Year in their city and state--to provide a realistic picture of how transitions can lead to a challenging and rewarding career. Using the women's voices and documented research studies, Dr. Moore provides a roadmap for successfully navigating one's career and thus offers a valuable resource for all professional women.

Each chapter is designed to provide personal insight on successful careerbuilding strategies including transitions, leadership and management style, and negotitating techniques. Many of the chapters include self-assessment exercises (e.g., entrepreneurial style, strategies for coping with conflict), and guidelines for handling specific situations (e.g., designing a transition strategy, a four-step plan to analyze the financial feasibility of starting a business).

This is a book that will be useful to organizational women, to those considering entrepreneurship, just starting out or for those without a mentor. The book serves as a valuable reference guide and you will find yourself returning to it time and again as you meet new challenges in growing and developing your career. For more established entrepreneurs, it will spark ideas on new ways to do business and cause you to re-examine and re-think current strategies that may be holding you back from further expansion. You'll finding the chapter on "Growth, Transition and Success" to be especially helpful.

Moreover, the book is inspirational as it contains honest accounts of how these women struggled and overcame barriers to achieve success. The scenarios in the book provide snapshots of the vaired roads to success. Among the role models you will meet are Suzy Spafford, CEO of Suzy's Zoo greeting cards and stationery, and Deborah Szekely, founder of Rancho La Puerta, the Golden Door, and Eureka Communities. If you want to break the glass ceiling and follow your passion, this book will provide the guidance, information, and inspiration you need.

In lively and engaging prose, Dorothy Perrin Moore examines the career strategies of successful women business owners and managers. Using recent research and her own case studies, Moore emphasizes building a career by networking with others and employing a team-oriented management style. The book is laden with good advice and links to additional resources. I highly recommend it to people interested in taking charge of their own careers

I agree with Janet from Lexington, this is a must read! The information on organizational transitions matches everything I've seen working for a Fortune 500 Company on Wall Street. Especially helpful were the ideas on developing a strategy for transition and measuring success. I shared this with all of my co-workers, male and female.

The quotes from successful women really hit home. One in particular hit a key for me: "An elephant gets more attention than a mouse. But if the mouse is the leader of company... the mouse needs to learn how to manage the elephant. We manage at least one elephant per day." So true! What manager out there has never felt like that mouse?

The chapter on networking has helped me better understand how to support my customers and co-workers. Working for a company that is a leader in providing equal opportunities for everyone, I assumed that women would have equal access to strong networks and mentors. As I dug into this further, I found that, indeed, there are stark differences in how men and women can approach making and maintaining these contacts. We are now working in my department to break down this barrier so we can retain the talented women who keep leaving when the doors are closed!

While targeted for women entrepreneurs, Careerpreneurs provides an excellent resource for men and women in entrepreneurial ventures as well as large organizations.

A must-read for women in transition...and who isn't? I wish I'd had this book years ago when I was transitioning from social work to business education; and yet, I find it extremely helpful as I move now, twenty years later, from an academic environment into homebased business ownership. Dorothy Perrin Moore has interviewed hundreds of women and discovered the multitudinous ways women build careers and move through the various stages of their work lives. Excellent and encouraging examples! If you're not sure what you want to do in your work life, there are a gazillion ideas in this book! Well written and researched, Moore validates the opportunities women have today to create careers without boundaries.

Not since the publication of breaking the Glass Ceiling ( Addison-Wesley, 1987) has there been a book that adequately sings praise for the new career paths of women. Dot Moore's Careerpreneurs shows that there is a new brand of women - educated, savvy, and smart - who are taking control of their careers and blazing their own pathways to success. Dot Moore's Careerpreneurs is thought provoking, interesting, and provocative. The stories told by the entrepreneurial women, and their challenges in leading others, negotiating contracts, and transitioning towards success are quite memorable. A "Must-read" for anyone interested in the career literature, the entrepreneurship literature, the women and diversity literature, and even the general management literature. And a double "must-read" for any woman who is thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, or who already is blazing her own path in this day and age of the new millennium.

A friend recommended this book and I thought it would just be about women and a lot of women issues and such----boy, was I wrong! This book is great. It's based on sound scientific methods but is easy to read and provides practical advice to both women and men. I'm glad my friend recommended the book and I'm recommending it to anyone I know who wants to succeed in today's business environment.

Anyone who aspires to be a successful entrepreneur will find this book is definitely a "must read." From cover to cover, it is full of useful frameworks and wonderful quotes from some of the most successful women entrepreneurs in America. Through careful distillation of focused interviews, Dorothy Perrin Moore has captured the essence of the best advice these savvy business women have to offer.

A favorite chapter is the one on networking. It provides great examples of how these women entrepreneurs have gone about building the networks of contacts that have been a key to their success. The chapter on leadership offers terrific insight into developing an effective leadership style and making the transition to leader. The chapter on negotiation provides crucial advice about critical bargaining skills. There is much more to love in this insightful book.

The anecdotes and quotes are integrated throughout, making this book a particularly fascinating read for anyone involved in the business world.

Dorothy Moore"s Carerrpreneurs is a must read for women who want to succeed in today's business world. Its clear format and well organized style makes it a pleasure to read. I especially liked the self-assessment tool. I'm a Human Resource Consultant for a major corporation and would recommend this book to women at all stages of their careers. I found the practical wisdom expressed in these successful women's own words to be enlightening and inspirational. A great read!

Finding a method of being a mother first and working to provide income rather than slaving to provide a meager income and also having children would be useful to most women (and probably favored by men). As yet, the priority problem between children and working has been solved by so few except those who can afford child care and cleaning help, that most of women's entrepreneurship - including professional employment - is lost in translation! Hopefully this book can help. For men to conclude that women are more than women-children would also help despite the fact that most don't want to be men, contrary to Freud, and those that fantasize over him and his views.

I read Dr. Moore's book a year ago as I started my business as a female entrepreneur, and now a year later I re-read it- and find all the lessons even more relevant and helpful. Any woman considering starting her own business should read this book several times. I have learned quite a bit over the last year, and Dr. Moore's book tremendously helped reduce my learning curve (not that it's been easy).

As a self- employed consultant focusing on women's leadership, I have found especially useful the author's pointers on negotiation, how to invest my time, and how to make the most of my networking resources. Her real-life examples and advice from successful female entrepreneurs and their stories is most inspiring and a continuing source of strength for me. My business has continued to grow, and I truly appreciate the opportunity to have learned from the other entrepreneurial women in this book.