Article

Book Review: Career Distinction - Stand Out by Building Your Brand

Topic: Corporate TrainingBy Mary Gormandy WhitePublished Recently added

Legacy signals

Legacy popularity: 1,286 legacy views

Creating and managing your personal brand is essential for career success. Career Distinction: Stand Out By Building Your Brand, written by career coaching gurus William Arruda and Kristen Dixson, is a valuable resource for any professional who wishes to set him or herself apart from competitors. If you want to advance in your career, whether you are self-employed or work for a small or large company, the advice in this book can help you accomplish your goals.

Career Distinction begins by guiding readers through the process of figuring out what their personal brand should be, and then provides practical tips for creating, communicating, and maintaining it. The authors explain creating and managing a personal brand is vital for career success in today’s highly competitive economy. They provide readers with sound, easy-to-follow advice on how to build and manage their own personal brand for positive career impact.

This book is a must-read for entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and those who are interested in rising to the top of their profession, regardless of their field or current level. Learning to brand yourself as a professional is the key to long-term success, and those who become the most highly regarded business leaders of the 21st century will be the ones who understand and utilize the concepts highlighted in Career Distinction.n

Article author

About the Author

This book review was provided by professional trainer, speaker, consultant, and author Mary Gormandy White, who is co-founder of Mobile Technical Institute and MTI Business Solutions (www.mobiletechwebsite.com). She frequently teaches and makes conference presentations on public relations, marketing, management, customer service, and communication topics. Visit Mary's Daily Biz Solutions blog (a href="http://www.dailybizsolutions.com">www.dailybizsolutions.com), which provides valuable tips and suggestions for small business owners and managers, as well as an ongoing series of business book reviews.

Further reading

Further Reading

4 total

Article

Successful organizations do not stop at attracting and retaining talented employees as part of their ingenious human resources management initiatives and organization development interventions. In fact, attracting and retaining talent is just the beginning in their complex process of building ...

Related piece

Article

The new year has begun charged with many unpredictable factors including: a bad economy, lower levels in consumer confidence and expending, a serious financial crisis, drastic changes in lending practices, increases in personal and corporate debt, a decrease in cash flow and savings, the ...

Related piece

Article

A new business owner confessed to me once that her company was growing so fast, she felt she just had to get a body in the door. After living through the pain of a very disastrous hire – the kind that almost destroyed her business – she has a brand new perspective on the situation. Most people ...

Related piece

Article

Trainers become trainers for several reasons. Sometimes they have a passion for it. At other times they simply enjoy the limelight. Sometimes they see it as the shortest path to mammon. Passion alone may not always be enough. Usually it is a combination of passion, skill, experience and that x factor is what really makes a trainer worth her weight in gold.

Related piece