Business Books to Read

Entrepreneur on Fire has a wonderful series of interviews with young (and not so young) entrepreneurs.  Save the website address in your bookmarks and make your way over to the site every now and then to listen to a podcast or read a blog post.  

Saw this post and thought how awesome it would be to have a "book talk" at our Regional Conference.  What do you think?

Top 15 Business Books Recommended by Today’s Top Entrepreneurs.

Here they are:

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

Rework by Jason Fried

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hseih

The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Mastery by Robert Greene

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Crush it! by Gary Vaynerchuk

Caution:  The links in this post are affiliate links.  You can look the titles up on your own if you are concerned about supporting the work of Entrepreneur on Fire before you know more about it.  

Black Women and the Feminist Movement

I hunted and hunted for the creator of this image to no avail.       

Please post in the comment section below if you come across the name of the person who created this image.

Joycelyn Wilson wrote in The Root (2013) that traditional feminism failed African-American women.
She goes on to say that we should address issues of feminism on our own terms and in our own way. Controversy swirled around her comments and black women took sides.

This week Gloria Steinem was interviewed at the Black Enterprise's Women of Power Summit, and expressed her opinion about the importance of black women in the feminist movement.
"I know we all have different experiences, but I learned feminism disproportionately from black women."

Read the transcript and listen to the interview here.What are your thoughts?

Make it Happen

Today is International Women's Day and all over the world women are celebrating the achievement of women.  Those who helped secure the vote for women in the United States and those that are working to secure the vote for women in those countries that have that step to take.  In some countries women are looking at gender equity and in others they are fighting for the right for girls to attend school. There is so much work to be done. The struggle continues around the globe.

More Information:
        Sign up for Accenture's International Women's Day 2015 #ListenLearnLead. It is free to  
        register and only requires your email. The site will be available all year and can be viewed      
        on your tablet.

        Spend some time on the Blogher site reading through 10 Insanely Easy Ways to Celebrate  
        International Women's Day.

        Find interviews on blogs or TED Talks and listen to the views of women who are leading the
        gender equity movement.  Women on the Fence highlights five amazing women.  One of them
        is Vivian Stringer the Rutgers Woman's Basketball Coach who faced off with Don Imus after he
        made vile and ugly remarks about her players.

      View the moving images of women on Journeywoman.  Share your favorites with a friend or
       post a comment about how the images made  you feel.

      If you are on Facebook take a peek at Girl Up.  So many women doing such fantastic work.

Gathering of Nations Pow Wow

Albuquerque, NM April 23-25. 2015

North America's largest pow wow and Native American competition featuring Indian singing and dancing with more than 3,000 participants, isles of shopping, and native foods and music.  The event will be held at the UNM Arena and lasts all day and night Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th, 2015.  (Read more about this special event.)