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

By Dorothy Perrin Moore

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891061444
• ISBN13: 9780891061441
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Roadmap to Success

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.

Taking charge of your entrepreneurial career

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

A MUST READ FOR ANYONE IN BUSINESS

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.

Great book!

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.

Encouraging & Validating

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.