[2009-02-19] Book Review: Breakdown, Breakthrough
Breakdown often seems to strike out of the blue, yet we rarely get to this point without warning signs along the way, writes Kathy Caprino in her empowering book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman's Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose. The author notes that many women, due to a sense of loss of empowerment, are experiencing breakdowns in their lives.

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[2009-02-05] Book Review: Outliers
Our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic, writes visionary author Malcolm Gladwell in his watershed book Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't. The author provides a devastating rebuttal to the idea of why people succeed or fail, and why we need to rethink conventional wisdom on everything from what constitutes genius, to the causes of unusual events.

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