Business Center Updates

Great new signage was installed in the Business Center late last month in time for our Business Resource Center certification on January 30th. 

We are very excited about this partnership with Michigan SBTDC. See below a snapshot of the day with Trevor Winn (Business Center Librarian), Carolyn Nash (GDL Executive Director), and Marsha Lyttle (Director of the SBTDC regional office at Kettering University).

More New Books!

The Business Center received the following new books just yesterday. Books can be requested from the "My Account" link on our homepage (click the Genesee District Library tab above), and sent to any of our 19 branches in Genesee County!

1. The Art of Being Brilliant

2. The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform, Why We Need It and What It Will Take

3. Beyond the Call: Why Some of Your Team Go the Extra Mile and Others Don’t Show

4. Business Plans Handbook, vol. 25

5. Cheaper, Better, Faster: Over 2,000 Tips and Tricks to Save You Time and Money Every Day

6. Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

7. Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration

8. The Do-It-Yourself Bailout: How I Eliminated $222,000 of Credit Card Debt in 18 Months and Saved Nearly $150,000.

9. The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life

10. Get Your Shift Together: How to Think, Laugh, and enjoy Your Way to Success in Business and in Life
11. Harvard Business Review Guide to Better Business Writing

12. How to Make Money in Stocks Success Stories: New and Advanced Investors Share Their Winning Secrets

13. How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire

14. I’m Sorry I Broke Your Company: When Management Consultants Are the Problem Not the Solution

15. Leading the Learning Revolution: The Expert’s Guide to Capitalizing on the Exploding Lifelong Education Market

16. Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses

17. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets

Upcoming Event!

GDL welcomes GreenPath Debt Solutions to Grand Blanc!

On Tuesday, February 26th, Greenpath Debt Solutions will lead a free seminar here at the library to discuss credit reports, how to interpret them, and the ramifications of your score in your life. Please take advantage of this opportunity to speak with these debt experts.

Bring Your Questions!

A brief Q & A session will follow. Seminar begins at 6:00 PM and will last about 1 hour.

Click HERE to register for this event!  

Complete List of NEW BOOKS

Over the last 2 weeks the following books have been added to the GDL Business Center collection. Be the first to check them out!

1.The Better World Shopping Guide

2. Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It’s Time For a   Revolution

3. Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal that Runs the World

4. Breakthrough Marketing Plans

5. Changing Business From the Inside Out: A Treehugger’s Guide to Working in Corporations

6. Ecothrifty: Cheaper, Greener Choices for a Happier, Healthier Life

7. Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages

8. Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

9. The Family Bank: The Family Guide to Financially Successful Children

10. How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2013 Edition

11. How to Eat an Elephant: Achieving Financial Success One Bite at a Time

12. How to Start a Home-Based Massage Therapy Business

13. I Don’t Want to Go to College: Other Paths to Success

14. I’m in a Job Search, Now What???

15. If Money Could Shout: The Brutal Truth for Teens

16. Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People

17. Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis and the Case for an Economic Rule of Law

18. Likeable Business: Why Today’s Consumers Demand More and How Leaders Can Deliver

19. Louis Vuitton: The Making of Modern Luxury

20. Networking is Dead: Making Connections that Matter

21. The New Rules of Job Search

22. Online Video Revolution: How to Reinvent and Market Your Business Using Video

23. The Org: The Underlying Logic of The Office

24. The Perfect Balance: How to Get Ahead Financially and Still Have a Life

25. The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

26. Principled Selling: How to Win More Business without Selling Your Soul

27. Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi Retirement 

28. Stock Market Rules, 4^th Edition

29. The Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is Essential Now!

30. Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

31. Wealth Regeneration at Retirement: Planning for a Lifetime of Leadership

32. Working in Your Major: How to Find a Great Job When You Graduate

Partnership with SBTDC!

Genesee District Library's Business Center has partnered with the Michigan SBTDC!

On Wednesday, January 30th at 2:30 PM, the Robert T. Bolo, Jr. Business Center will officially become a certified "Business Resource Center" for the Michigan chapter of the Small Business and Technology Development Center. Housed locally at Kettering University, and directed by Marsha Lyttle, MI-SBTDC has an excellent reputation of educating small businesses and investing in our community. 

All are welcome to the Business Center on Wednesday, January 30th for the short ceremony, and click over to MLive for an article posted today about the collaboration!

As always, the Business Center is here to serve your information needs so do not hesitate to contact us with questions. 

Book Review: A Must Read

Incredibly Irreverent, Inside Take on the Hospitality Industry

Tomsky writes with extensive first-hand knowledge of hotels and how they operate, and after reading his first book, the advice could very well improve your next reservation.

Free upgrades: sure.

Free movies and minibar items: no problem. 

Desk attendant replies "there's nothing I can do:" it's a lie. 

The author has seen it all and stresses that respect goes a very long way in this business (as do generous tips). He holds nothing back, uses coarse language, but the result will leaving you laughing, I know I did. Starting in New Orleans, and ending in New York City, the book will no doubt affect your next interaction with desk attendants, bellman, and doormen. 

 You might get a free upgrade, too.    

Event Announcement

Greenpath Debt Solutions (of Flint) will be speaking at the Grand Blanc branch on Tuesday, February 26th at 6:00 PM. Please join us for this free event, and bring your questions. After a discussion of Credit Reports and how to understand them, there will be a time for Q & A with these experts.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED, visit GDL's homepage to register through our calendar of events or call 810-694-5310. Program will last 1 hour.

Date: Tuesday, February 26th

Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Location: McFarlen Library 515 Perry Rd., Grand Blanc