Beverly E. Jones - Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO: 50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work

Praise for Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO:

Bev is the ideal career coachfull of ideas and inspiration. She encourages and educates peoplesometimes with a gentle nudge and sometimes with a firm hand. But, either way, she gets people to where THEY want to go. She motivates them to be the best they can be at whatever career they choose. She also guides people seeking second and third careers in life. She works under the philosophy that it is NEVER too late.

Thomas Hodson, Joe Berman Professor of Communication, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University and General Manager of WOUB Public Media

This phenomenal woman has blessed me with her knowledge and expertise to become a better manager and a better person. With this book she can do the same for you.

Arlean Leland, Associate General Counsel, Civil Rights, Labor and Employment Law, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Reading a career tip chapter by Bev Jones is like having a wise counselor with a gently authoritative voice sitting next to you offering the best advice that money can buy and that you can realistically follow. A pure pleasure.

Ira Chaleff, author of The Courageous Follower and Intelligent Disobedience

Bev is an amazing coach who reaches beyond promoting leadership and excellent management skills to help her clients understand that its not just about success at work. She demonstrates that if you take care of yourself and your health and your family, and you work on bringing other people up along the way, it makes you a fuller, richer, better person. With this wonderful book, Bev brings her insightful coaching to a wide community, including you.

Sherry Little, former Acting Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, now Partner and Co-founder, Spartan Solutions LLC

Career coach Beverly Jones will show you how to handle tricky challenges at work, make change your friend and, most of all, have the career you want and deserve.

Richard Eisenberg, Work & Purpose Editor, Nextavenue.org

Bev is an expert coach and a fine teacher who can turn academic research into sound, practical advice. She is amazing, and we are excited about her book.

Dr. Mark Weinberg, Founding Dean, The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University

Bev is a great coach, and every page of her book is teeming with insight drawn from her path breaking career in industry as well as her steadfast support of hundreds of clients as a leadership, executive, and career coach. Whether youre a client or a coach, read this book and prepare to drink from a bubbling stream of sound advice and inspiration.

Coach Dave Goldberg, President of ThreeJoy.com and coauthor of A Whole New Engineer

Beverlys book offers practical insights and tips grounded in decades of experience. Her pragmatic, thoughtful observations and commentary will prove invaluable to young legal practitioners, government and corporate lawyers starting to step into leadership decision-making. Her sage counsel and coaching will help make them better stewards of the future.

Michael J. Zimmer, senior attorney and ABA Energy and Environment Section Committee past chairman of two committees

50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work

THINK LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR, ACT LIKE A CEO

BEVERLY E. JONES

Foreword by Kerry Hannon, author of Great Jobs for Everyone 50+

Copyright 2016 Beverly E. Jones

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T HINK L IKE AN E NTREPRENEUR , A CT L IKE A CEO
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T YPESET BY K RISTIN G OBLE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Beverly E.

Title: Think like an entrepreneur, act like a CEO : 50 indispensable tips to
help you stay afloat, bounce back, and get ahead at work / by Beverly E.
Jones.

Description: Wayne : Career Press, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015037788| ISBN 9781632650177 | ISBN 9781632659811 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Professional employees--Psychology. | Interpersonal
communication. | Career development.

Classification: LCC HD8038.A1 J66 2016 | DDC 650.1--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037788

To my mother, Lorna Jones, who continues to reinvent her career as an artist at age 95.

I am so grateful to my husband, Andy Alexander, for his support. Of course, it is wonderful to have a resident expert editor. Knowing that he has read every word of the book and given me a thumbs-up is great for my confidence level. More than that, the two of us always approach careers as a team effort, and I appreciate his years of patience and support for this project.

Im also indebted to my friend and frequent brainstorming partner Kerry Hannon, who wrote the Foreword and shared Love Your Job tips. Kerry convinced me that writing a book can be fun and manageable, and then she taught me how to do it. Kerry also introduced me to freelance editor Debra Englander, who helped me find my agent and then did a preliminary edit of the book. As a first-time author, I needed a lot of guidance, and Kerry and Debby helped me stay on track.

I love the feeling of being supported by talented professionals. And it has been such a pleasure to work with an assured, straightforward, competent pro like my agent Cynthia Zigman at Second City Publishing Services. Thanks for sticking with me and getting the deal done, Cindy. I already have thoughts about the next project.

I might not have kept going on the book were it not for the years of encouragementsometimes even the kindest possible naggingfrom a long list of family, friends, and colleagues. Special thanks to Ira Chaleff, Bob Deans, Emily Emmett, and Merry Foresta, who were kind enough to read early versions of the proposal and encouraged me to keep going. Thanks, too, to Sherry Little, Andrea Wilkinson, Gayle Williams-Byers, Bruce Jones, and Libby Vick for being my faithful cheering squad.

Ohio University is my home town and a center of my still continuing education. I so appreciate the support and enthusiasm of many friends there, including: Jan and Tom Hodson and many of Toms colleagues and fellow alumni of the Scripps College of Communication; Mark Weinberg and his team at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs; and JR Blackburn, Ann Brown, Sue Chiki, and the rest of the OHIOWomen crew.

Many of my clients have been part of this process. I wont mention their names, and the books anecdotes have been substantially changed to hide personal details. But you know who you are. Im very grateful for all the suggestions for e-zines, blog posts, and book chapters. Thanks for your interest through the years and for so much enthusiastic support for this and other writing projects.

Finally, thank you Career Press, for your confidence and professionalism.