The Nia Guide for Black Women: Achieving Career Success on Your Terms

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From NiaOnline.com, the web's leading community site for professional black women: a practical guide to developing leadership skills, pursuing workplace success and effectiveness, climbing the corporate ladder, and achieving empowerment for today's African American working woman. Full of useful, up-to-the-minute data, helpful tips and suggestions, and personal stories from other successful black women. Developed with the editors and contributors to NiaOnline.com.

Sheryl Huggins is the editor-in-chief of NiaOnline.com, the web's leading community site for African American women since 2000. Cheryl Mayberry McKissack is the CEO of Nia Enterprises.

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Sista Girl Advice for the Office.......2005-01-12

Are you questioning your worth at the office? Not sure about your place in the corporate world? The NIA Guide for Black Women will facilitate discovering your purpose and realizing your goals. It provides sound advice and practical knowledge in creating a working environment that supports your career goals while cultivating your heritage.

The NIA Guide for Black Women brings the vast amount of information from www.niaonline.com into book form. Part One discusses the Sole Sister in the office syndrome and provides ideas for coping with issues that sisters deal with most in corporate America. Part Two offers suggestions on recreating your corporate mindset by updating your resume, refocusing your career goals and dealing with setbacks that you may face. Part Three provides details on how to take your career to the next level by creating opportunities, polishing your presentation skills, getting noticed by the boss through joining professional organizations and getting published. Part Four advises you to develop your "own" old girl network, enjoying the climb up the corporate ladder while pulling up those not as fortunate.

This concise guide is a resource that will elevate your career to the next level. The thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter will aid in focusing your energies on change. It is full of personal stories of success, examples of leadership, career empowerment strategies and current data on African-American women in the corporate arena. The NIA Guide for Black Women is a great source of information regardless of your career choice, ideas for your future, and family responsibility.

Reviewed by Monique Bruner for Loose Leaves Book Review

Plan your work, work your plan .......2004-11-16

Sheryl Huggins, editor-in-chief, and Cheryl Mayberry McKissack, founder and CEO, have been instrumental in the success of the Nia Online website (www.niaonline.com) and now they have packaged their wonderful resources and offered it to us in the NIA GUIDE FOR BLACK WOMEN: Achieving Career Success on Your Own Terms. When translated "Nia" means purpose. We are encouraged to know our purpose and be in tune with ourselves to achieve our career goals. We must be real with ourselves by asking; "What am I here to do?" and "What can I do to effect a change?"

The NIA GUIDE offers sound advice from many successful African American women ranging from broad categories as Keeping Your Pride and Sanity, A Sister's Map to the Corporate Minefield and Tips for Taking It To the Next Level. It is insightful and requires personal reflection. Within the three categories are 13 individual flowing chapters that discusses being the sole woman of color in the workplace and how to embrace our uniqueness while maintain a positive role within the workforce. The reader is encouraged to be able to talk the talk and be prepared to speak the language necessary for the job you want. Corporate America is compared to a game of football and all to often, we don't come to play. We are reminded the key to Corporate America is to understand the game and play it to win! Even if we stumble along the way, we must learn to turn setbacks into comebacks by turning the lemons handed to us by life into lemonade. In the racism and sexism chapter, Paula Sneed, the Group VP of Kraft Foods, states "Racism and Sexism in the workplace is so prevalent, we have to be able to use the fact that we are women and women of color to our advantage. [Others] want to see it as a negative and therefore set the bar low. They don't know what we can accomplish." As Daphne Jones states, "the proverbial glass ceiling is really a concrete ceiling and you have to find a way to chisel yourself through."

This book is small, but mighty. An introspective writing exercise is included to further delve into one's situation at the end of each chapter. Also, additional resources and websites at the end of each chapter are referenced for further examination. No matter your chosen career path, individual choices and goals, The NIA GUIDE is a great resource!

Reviewed by Nedine
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

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Market Trading Tactics Beating the Odds Through Technical Analysis and Money Management Market Trading Tactics is a handbook of trading tactics, touching on the major charting techniques and indicators. It shows how to formulate realistic money management techniques and helps the private trader use all these indicators to search for the best trading opportunities. It shows how to plan entry set-ups and how to devise disciplined stop-loss techniques. The book outlines a flexible day-to-day plan of action that enables traders of all levels to trade with greater direction and confidence. Author Daryl Guppy also discusses how to go about the daily search for new trading opportunities and offers ready-to-use formulae to ease the process. He explains how best to exploit trading opportunities and discusses managing the position to maximize profitability. The book is supported on www.guppytraders.com with constantly updated material. Guppy takes position-trading beyond the basics as he describes in easy-to-understand detail how it is possible for any trader with an understanding of the market to maximize the prospects of success by using the right trading tactics. "Extremely entertaining and well-written book which explains the ins and outs of technical analysis in a way which is not only understandable but readily applicable. This book is certain to become a standard in the libraries of traders and others interested in the development of trading mastery." - Ari Kiev, M.D., author of Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets "Daryl Guppy has detailed a series of down-to-earth and practical methodologies that provide an invaluable, solid foundation to assessing and managing risk in today's markets. This must be considered as required reading for both new and seasoned investors intending to commit their funds to trading in the equity market." - Ian Copsey, Executive Director of Mandarin Capital Technologies Pte. Ltd. and author of Integrated Technical Analysis "Guppy proves he's no small fish in understanding the art and science of trading. You will learn from this book." - Larry Williams, author of Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading

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MMA is worth the price of admission.......2002-07-23

Like a previous reviewer, I was not impressed overall by the book. It has some interesting things to say, but many of the techniques are either very common or don't fit in my trading style. The section on MMA is very interesting though, and it has been incorporated into my trading plan, as I find it very interesting.

The complaint about the authors use of metastock in another review was rather silly, in my estimation; the use is simple enough that any reader should be able to look at the formula and decide they can implement that themselves rather easily (or maybe decide that the formula is not important, and they have elements in their trading plan that already do it).

A word of warning, this is not a day trading book. If you want something intraday or extremely short term (a la 1-5 day swing trading) this book is probably not the best choice.

Read it!.......2001-01-25

I recommend this book to all traders because there are a number of good points and new ideas mentioned in it which I find useful to my trading. It is infinitely better than a lot of the newly-published daytrading books out there.

I trade for a living.......2000-11-16

This is the authors reply to the Singapore review. I trade for a living and the MMA is one of my core indicators. It has been presented in real time at many Australian, Asian and US workshops and is used successfully by many traders and some fund managers. We also show the operation of this indicator in real time in our weekly newsletter. To suggest that chart illustrations are 'fudged' is slanderous and incorrect. With more experience in TA and with modern charting packages, he would note the changes in scaling in the two extracts and still be able to match the dates of the identifie turning points. The depth of market information for many Asian exchanges is readily available from several Singapore based web sites.

This one is for everyone.......2000-10-18

One of the many benefits of this text is the breath of the subject matter. A first read will tell you the the author knows what he is speaking about. The section on Gambler or Trader is worth the price of the book. In fact each chapter has something for the trader or investor. There are many gems here. You only need the experience to realize they are right in front of you. Buy it.

Nothing new here and too much fluff........2000-09-26

I've read many trading books using Technical Analysis and have been practising TA for 4 years now. The author does not bring anything new to the field. His heavy reliance on a certain popular charting software for his stock searches make the approach useless for readers without access to similar software and market information.

Similarly, the section on depth of market is also difficult to implement by most home traders who do not readily have access to this data (ie most Asian countries). Most of what he talks about, typical chart patterns like gaps, triangles etc and even his techniques in money management and market psychology, are nothing new and are available in almost every other book on TA.

Initially, I was interested in his MMA approach but I was suprised that the charts in the book seemed fudged - entry and exit points are inconsistent from one chart to another and seemed to have been moved closer together to make them coincide! Additionally, I cannot see how the author says that his MMA has very little lag since, in practice, the MMA will only give the user a meaningful signal after the market has moved too much away from him. If it is possible to trade with hindsight, the author's MMA looks beautiful.

Overall, I wished I had spent more time finding a better book on market trading tactics. The cryptic chapter names tries to hide the fluff from the book browser in bookstores. My advice is flip through the pages before you buy. There are other better books.

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Market Trading Tactics : Beating the Odds Through Technical Analysis and Money Management, Revised and Updated edition (Trading Ser.)
Daryl Guppy
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KWPVYS

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Market Trading Tactics: Beating the Odds Through Technical Analysis and Money Management (Wiley Trading Advantage)
Daryl Guppy
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7C8T6

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Excellent Introduction to SUSY.......2006-03-07

This book is an authoritative and current introduction to supersymmetry (SUSY). It is well-written with clear and consistent notation. The book assumes familiarity with quantum field theory and the Standard Model. SUSY is developed from the point of view of superfields, which can be somewhat abstract, but is elegant and rigorous. The subject matter is introduced in a systematic and well-organized manner.

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