Whether you're job hunting or aiming for promotion in your current role, these six standout books offer proven strategies from seasoned experts to propel your professional journey forward.
From Employee to Entrepreneur
Transitioning from corporate life to entrepreneurship is a bold move many professionals make—often driven by necessity or a craving for autonomy and challenge. Yet, it demands a mindset shift. Coach Leni Minderhoud, who guides experienced professionals and budding entrepreneurs, demystifies this in her book From Employee to Entrepreneur. She tackles common pitfalls like fearing lost stability or believing entrepreneurship is innate, then shares her 'winner's formula': start with customer needs, not your offerings. 'It's a mindset pivot anyone can master,' says Minderhoud. 'This book awakens that entrepreneurial spirit.'
From Employee to Entrepreneur: The Winner's Formula for Free Enterprise
€23.50
Create Your Next Job
Career expert Marjolein Kalter's Create Your Next Job introduces the 'Baan as a Business' method, helping you sidestep fierce competition by crafting your ideal role. Drawing from training hundreds of job seekers—70% of 48-year-old participants landed jobs within six months—Kalter adapts entrepreneurial tactics. Focus on your personal brand, solvable problems, paying clients, connections, and deals. The book details six steps: align with your strengths and values, target dream employers, propose expertise-driven solutions. 'Build relationships with companies sharing your vision,' Kalter advises.
Create Your Next Job
€20
Babe, You Got This: From Girl with Dreams to Woman with Success
Ambitious women, inspired by social media success stories, wonder: Where to start? How to network, sell ideas, persist, and balance it all? Emilie Sobels (29, founder of Hashtag Workmode) and Martje Haverkamp (23) compile wisdom from 23 top Dutch female entrepreneurs in Babe, You Got This. Their triumphs—and setbacks—motivate you to evolve from dreamer to achiever. As they say, 'Successful women lift each other up: Babe, you got this.'
€17.99
Yes She's Smart: A Smart Girl Is Prepared for Her Future
Targeted at recent female graduates, Yes She's Smart by Stadelmaier addresses why educated women lag in leadership: soft skills gaps. This handbook for your first decade post-grad covers career effectiveness, happiness, partner choices, family balance, and climbing the ladder. Gain tools for smarter work, sustained drive, and top-tier success—on your terms.
Yes She's Smart
€22.50
Hacking Growth: The Method Behind the Success of Leading Companies
From Airbnb's niche origins to Uber's dominance, explosive growth stems from 'Growth Hacking'—a data-driven methodology used by startups and giants like IBM and Microsoft. Founders Sean Ellis (who coined 'growth hacker,' CEO of GrowthHackers.com with 1.8M users) and Morgan Brown reveal the playbook in Hacking Growth. Frequent speakers at SXSW and HubSpot, they share actionable insights for entrepreneurs, marketers, and leaders.
Released July 25, 2017
€24.99
Radical Candor: Be a Better Boss with This New Management Method
Forget 'if you can't say something nice' in leadership—it's counterproductive, as Kim Scott learned at Google and Apple. Her Radical Candor blends caring personally with challenging directly for top performance. Backed by her exec training and endorsements from global leaders, it offers three principles: Make it personal, Get (sh)it done, Understand why it matters. For bosses and teams, it's practical wisdom to foster loving, high-achieving cultures.
Released August 15, 2017
€13.99
