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This book distills Lisa Olsen’s decades of experience into practical insights and stories that help Executive Assistants elevate their impact. Focused on growth, strategy, and self-leadership, the book guides EAs in moving beyond task execution to becoming trusted strategic partners.

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Mastering EA Excellence
60 Lessons From a Career Executive Assistant

Lisa Olsen

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This book exposes how the title “Executive Assistant” no longer reflects the role’s true scope or impact. Anne Browning shows how outdated titles limit pay, authority, and recognition, and calls for language that elevates executive support to match its real strategic value.

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The Title is the Problem
Why "Executive Assistant" Falls Short

Anne Browning

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This book helps Executive Assistants and busy professionals take control of their time, align calendars with priorities, and turn daily chaos into strategic clarity. With practical tools and smart scheduling techniques, it boosts productivity, removes time drains, and supports better work-life balance with confidence and intention.

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The Executive Assistant's
Guide to Strategic Initiatives
Volume 1: Strategic Time
& Calendar Optimization

Trey Scarpa

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This book supports Executive Assistants in recovering from burnout with compassion and clarity. Through personal experience, tailored tools, and empowering guidance, it helps EAs reclaim their energy, set boundaries, and rediscover purpose in both work and life.

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Bouncing Back from Burnout
The EA Handbook

Kathleen Harvey

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This book empowers Executive Assistants to unlock their potential. Through personal stories, practical strategies, and proven advice, it helps EAs build confidence, embrace authenticity, and navigate challenges with resilience to create a career that truly shines.

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The Unstoppable EA
Secrets to Success, Authenticity, and Resilience as an Executive Assistant

Becky Kaapuni

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This book empowers administrative professionals to break free from frustration and undervaluation, unlocking their potential and transforming their careers in today’s fast-paced, evolving workplace.

Evolved Assistant
Unlocking Success in a New Era
for Administrative Professionals

Tara M. Sims

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In this book, Zelda distills timeless lessons on leadership and life from her years as Mandela’s close associate. Reflecting on humility, respect, honesty, listening, and accountability, the book shares profound insights inspired by Madiba’s wisdom and grace.

What Nelson Mandela Taught Me
Timeless lessons on leadership and life

Zelda la Grange

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This book is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to excelling as a corporate EA. With 43 actionable strategies, it equips assistants with advanced skills in calendar management, stakeholder engagement, travel planning, and more to make a significant impact within 90 days.

Executive Assistant Mastery
How to Make the Biggest Impact
to Your Manager in 90 days.
A 43 Step Process for Corporate Executive Assistants.

Maria Fuller

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This book empowers assistants to thrive in a rapidly evolving business landscape. With practical strategies for skill-building, networking, and career growth, it’s the ultimate guide to unlocking your full potential in this essential role.

The Modern-Day Assistant
Build Your Influence and Boost
Your Potential

Lucy Brazier

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This book is a guide for entrepreneurs and assistants to create thriving partnerships. It offers actionable strategies for delegation, communication, and collaboration, empowering teams to succeed in today’s remote work environment.

Delegation Nation
How Entrepreneurs and Assistants
Can Thrive Together in a Remote World

Valerie Trapunsky

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Thi book is a transformative guide for Administrative Professionals looking to revolutionize their roles and workplaces. It provides practical strategies to build Internal Assistant Networks, fostering collaboration, efficiency, and strategic partnerships.

The Executive Support Guide
to Creating an Internal
Assistant Network

Cathy Harris

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This book reveals how business leaders can reclaim freedom and drive growth by empowering their administrative teams. Using the Adminnovate Model, it provides strategies to redefine admin roles, foster innovation, and build scalable, efficient businesses.

Buried in Business
Find Freedom by Unlocking
the Power of Your Admin Team

Jamie Vanek

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This book is a strategic guide for administrative professionals aiming to achieve "Inner Circle" status. Drawing on 35 years of experience, Joan provides actionable steps and competencies to help assistants become indispensable, star performers in their organizations

Become an Inner Circle Assistant
How to Be a Star in Your Profession
and Achieve Inner Circle Status!

Joan M. Burge

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This book is a comprehensive guide for executives to maximize the value of their Executive Assistants. It provides practical strategies, multi-generational insights, and step-by-step processes for building a strategic partnership that enhances productivity, influence, and work-life balance.

The Executive's Competitive Edge
Why You Need to Leverage the Talents
& Time of an Executive Assistant

Joan M. Burge
James Bristow

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This book is a laugh-out-loud guide to being hilariously terrible yet unfireable. Filled with personal stories, witty how-tos, and behind-the-scenes tales of working with Conan O’Brien, it’s a comedic celebration of imperfection and charm.

The World's Worst Assistant

Sona Movsesian

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This book offers a roadmap for C-suite executives to unlock time and productivity by leveraging a strategic partnership with an Executive Assistant. Through their five performance multipliers, it’s a guide to maximizing professional and personal success.

The 29-Hour Work Day
A High Performer’s Guide
to Leveraging Your EA

Ethan Bull
Stephanie Bull

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This book reveals how top-tier Executive Assistants create a competitive advantage for their executives and organizations. With actionable insights and real-world stories, Joan equips assistants with skills to enhance their value, foster continual improvement, and excel in their careers.

Underneath It All
How Top-Tier Executive Assistants Create a Competitive Advantage

Joan M. Burge

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This book empowers readers to take control of their careers using leadership principles learned from working with top tech CEOs. Packed with actionable strategies and inspiring stories, it’s a guide to building confidence, creating opportunities, and achieving extraordinary success.

Bet On Yourself
Recognize, Own, and Implement Breakthrough Opportunities

Ann Hiatt

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This book is an essential guide for PAs, EAs, and office managers to navigate a rapidly evolving workplace. It combines leadership insights and practical skills, preparing administrative professionals to thrive in senior roles and drive organizational success.

The Definitive Executive Assistant & Managerial Handbook
Leadership for PAs,
Executive Assistants,
Senior Administrators
and Office Managers

Sue France

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This book is a step-by-step guide to building a thriving freelance career as a VA. It empowers readers to achieve work-life balance while supporting an industry focused on health and happiness.

The Healthy Virtual Assistant
How to Become a Virtual Assistant
for the Health and Wellness Industry

Joanna Mitchell

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This book is a guide to thriving in the evolving administrative field. Packed with insights, strategies, and inspiring stories, it empowers admins to enhance their performance, embrace a growth mindset, and achieve excellence in their careers.

Elevate Admins
How to Raise the Bar
and Achieve Excellence
in Your Administrative Career

Chrissy Scivicque

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This book is a groundbreaking guide for EAs to harness Emotional Intelligence (EI). Tailored for high-impact roles, it offers strategies to build resilience, adaptability, and leadership, enhancing both personal and professional effectiveness.

EQ/IQ
Developing Emotional
Intelligence for Effective
Executive Support

Melba J. Duncan
Loretta Sophocleous

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This book explores the transformative power of leveraging an assistant for leaders. Drawing from her experiences as a leader and former EA, it provides insights to foster trust, streamline delegation, and enhance productivity for both leaders and assistants.

Rise Up and Lead Well
How Leveraging An Assistant Will Change Your Life & Maximize
Your Time

Tricia Sciortino

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This book is an essential guide for administrative professionals seeking to excel in their roles. Packed with practical advice, career development tips, and neuroscience tools, it helps PAs, EAs, and office managers enhance their skills and boost their impact.

The Definitive Personal Assistant
& Secretarial Handbook
A Best Practice Guide
for All Secretaries,
PAs, Office Managers
and Executive Assistants

Sue France

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This book is a must-read for assistants aiming to elevate their roles from indispensable to truly invaluable. With practical tips, skills, and mindsets, it helps assistants demonstrate their full value and secure a vital place in their organizations.

The Invaluable Assistant
30+ Ways to Demonstrate
Your Full Value at Work

Sandy Geroux

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This book is an empowering guide for administrative professionals to embrace their value and unlock their potential. Through thoughtful insights and personal stories, it fosters self-discovery, confidence, and success in both professional and personal spheres.

Not, 'Just an Admin!'
Discover the Respect,
Value and Power
of the Administrative Profession

Peggy Vasquez

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This is an insightful self-help book offering real-life stories, lessons, and advice for EAs. With 20 practical chapters, it empowers readers to build confidence, improve their skills, and navigate challenges with courage and resilience.

Executive Assistant
Guide to Survival
Real Stories, Real Lessons,
Real Insights

Amal Candido

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This book empowers assistants to overcome challenges, embrace leadership, and elevate their careers. With its four-pillar approach—character, tactics, relationships, and self-care—it inspires growth, confidence, and resilience.

The Leader Assistant
Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant

Jeremy Burrows

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This book inspires Executive Assistants to embrace their power, find their voice, and step into greatness. It’s a motivational guide to personal and professional growth, encouraging readers to ignite their inner fire and stop playing small.

The Elevated EA
Find Your Voice & Own Your Future
as an Executive Assistant

Maggie Jacobs

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In this book, Trish shares the inspiring journey of a successful Executive Assistant and Life Coach. Through personal stories, it highlights the challenges, emotional ties, and triumphs of the EA role, offering insight and inspiration for aspiring assistants and executives alike.

In Full Flight
The triumphs and travails
of an Executive Assistant

Trish Stadler

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This book is a step-by-step guide to hiring, training, and maximizing the impact of an Executive Assistant. It provides a systematic blueprint to help busy professionals save time, money, and energy by leveraging the power of a well-trained assistant.

Your World-Class Assistant
Hiring, training, and leveraging
an Executive Assistant

Michael Hyatt

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This book is an essential guide for administrative professionals aiming to excel in their roles. Drawing on 30+ years of experience, Debbie shares strategies and lessons to help assistants become indispensable partners and invaluable assets to their executives and organizations.

The Office Rockstar Playbook
How I Leveled Up as an Executive Assistant and Helped My CEO Build
a Multibillion-Dollar Company

Debbie Gross

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This book offers engaging stories and strategic insights for assistants, administrators, and entrepreneurs. It’s a practical and entertaining guide to aligning for success while highlighting the value of exceptional support.

The Ninja
Chronicles of an Assistant

Nadine King

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This book explores the powerful partnership between entrepreneurs and Executive Assistants, offering strategies for collaboration, communication, and shared leadership to achieve scalable growth and mutual success.

The Founder & Force Multiplier
How Entrepreneurs and Executive Assistants Achieve More Together

Adam Hergenrother
Hallie Warner

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This book offers a raw and honest perspective on modern business from a seasoned Executive Assistant. Through 27 years in the C-suite, Normand challenges norms and highlights systemic inequities, urging open dialogue for meaningful change.

As I See It
Volume 1: Business

Phoenix Normand

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This book is a transformative resource for Executive Assistants aspiring to achieve greatness. It provides actionable strategies, insights, and exercises to help EAs plan their careers, enhance their leadership presence, and excel as business partners.

The Executive Secretary Guide
to Building a Successful Career
Strategy

Julia Schmidt

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This book is a no-nonsense guide to excelling as an administrative professional. Packed with game-changing truths, unwritten rules, and personal stories, it empowers readers to master their craft, demonstrate their value, and stand out in today’s business world.

Joan's Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed

Joan M. Burge

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In this book, Linda shares humorous and insightful tales of life as a Silicon Valley assistant. With practical lessons and strategies (WAND: What Assistants Need Daily), it’s a must-read for assistants, managers, and professionals aiming to achieve success together.

The Wizard Behind the CEO
Enchanted stories from the assistant
with the magic WAND

Linda McFarland

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This book redefines the EA role, offering tools and strategies to elevate EAs from routine administrative tasks to strategic partners. It’s a guide for EAs and executives to build trust, improve communication, and maximize organizational effectiveness.

The New Executive Assistant
Exceptional Executive Office Management

Jonathan McIlroy

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This book is a comprehensive guide to building a thriving VA business. Packed with personal insights and practical advice, it provides a roadmap for starting, growing, and scaling a VA career while achieving financial freedom and lifestyle flexibility.

Become A Successful
Virtual Assistant
Learn the Business Side
& Ditch 9 to 5

Melissa Smith

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This book offers a heartfelt and intimate account of Ronald Reagan’s post-presidency. Through behind-the-scenes stories, photos, and personal insights, Peggy reveals the private side of a beloved leader and his enduring legacy of faith, optimism, and patriotism.

The President Will See You Now
My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan's Final Years

Peggy Grande

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This book is a step-by-step guide to finding and hiring the perfect VA. Drawing on her experience as a VA, matchmaker, and entrepreneur, Melissa provides actionable strategies to save time, boost productivity, and propel your business forward.

Hire the Right Virtual Assistant
How the Right VA Will Make
Your Life Easier, Create Time,
and Make You More Money

Melissa Smith

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This book is a practical guide to mastering proactivity at work and in life. It provides actionable strategies and a step-by-step framework to help readers take control, get ahead, and unlock their full potential.

The Proactive Professional
How to Stop Playing Catch Up
and Start Getting Ahead
at Work (and in Life!)

Chrissy Scivicque

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This book is an invaluable resource for Personal Assistants, Executive Assistants, and administrative professionals. Packed with expert tips, templates, and actionable advice, it provides practical strategies to boost efficiency and excel in a competitive office environment.

How to be a PA
A practical guide to becoming
a super-efficient Personal Assistant

Maria Fuller

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This book is a practical guide for administrative professionals seeking to create efficient systems, reduce chaos, and boost productivity. It helps readers understand their unique organizing style to better manage their workspace, time, and tasks.

The Organized Admin:
Leverage Your Unique Organizing Style to Create Systems, Reduce Overwhelm, and Increase Productivity

Julie Perrine

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This book is a practical and engaging guide designed for PAs and administrative professionals. Organized in an A-Z format, it delivers essential skills, attributes, and insights to help PAs excel in today’s demanding business environment.

A-Z Pearls of Wisdom for Executive PAs

Lindsay Taylor

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This book is a powerful guide to optimizing the executive-assistant partnership. Through real-world examples and expert insights, it highlights how exceptional EAs can maximize productivity, streamline operations, and become indispensable business allies.

The CEO’s Secret Weapon
How Great Leaders and Their
Assistants Maximize Productivity
and Effectiveness

Jan Jones

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This book explores the multifaceted roles of Personal and Executive Assistants. Using the metaphor of a circus, it offers insights, tips, and strategies to integrate the diverse responsibilities of PAs and EAs, enabling them to provide exceptional support and excel in their careers.

The PA and EA Circus
Integrating the many parts
of the Personal and Executive Assistant

Angela Garry

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This book is a heartfelt memoir offering a rare, intimate portrait of Nelson Mandela through the eyes of a trusted member of his inner circle. It recounts life-changing lessons from Madiba, honoring his enduring legacy of reconciliation and humanity.

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
A Memoir

Zelda la Grange

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This book is an empowering guide for PAs and administrators in education. It offers practical advice, tips, and anecdotes to help readers excel, develop professionally, and tackle challenges with confidence throughout the year.

Brave PAs
The Ultimate Guide to Being
Outstanding in a Tough Job

Angela Garry

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This book is a guide for Executive Assistants aspiring to shine in their roles. Drawing on 25+ years of experience with global leaders, it offers proven strategies to stand out as a trusted partner and excel in the EA profession.

Jewel in the Leader's Crown
Powerful Strategies to Shine as an Executive Assistant & Beyond

Ruth Mead

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This book is a comprehensive guide for administrative professionals seeking leadership and career advancement. It combines practical skills with personal development strategies, empowering readers to excel in senior roles and gain more responsibility.

The Definitive Executive Assistant and Managerial Handbook
A Professional Guide to Leadership
for all PAs, Senior Secretaries, Office Managers and Executive Assistants

Sue France

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This book provides practical tools, insider stories, and expert advice for professional assistants. Drawing on 25+ years of experience as a celebrity assistant, it’s a guide to achieving excellence and redefining perceptions of the assistant role.

Be the Ultimate Assistant
A celebrity assistant's secrets
to working with any high-powered employer

Bonnie Low-Kramen

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This book is an empowering guide for administrative professionals to embrace innovation, unlock creativity, and become invaluable leaders in their organizations. It offers practical strategies for elevating your career through innovative thinking.

The Innovative Admin

Julie Perrine

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This book is a resourceful and inspiring guide written by executive assistants for executive assistants. Packed with tips, tools, and practical strategies, it draws on the collective experience of high-achieving professionals to help EAs succeed, lead, and add value every day.

Who Took My Pen…Again?

Joan M. Burge
Nancy Fraze
Jasmine Freeman

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This book provides an entertaining and candid insider look into the world of Silicon Valley CEO assistants. Through true stories, it highlights the power, influence, and complexity of the EA role in shaping executive and business success.

Sitting on a File Cabinet,
Naked, With a Gun
True Stories of Silicon Valley CEO Assistants

Linda McFarland
Joanne Linden

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This book is a transformative guide for administrative professionals. It reveals how to earn respect, gain a voice, and ignite leadership through five interpersonal strengths, empowering readers to achieve job satisfaction and revolutionize their workplace value.

Administrative Excellence
Revolutionizing Our Value
In The Workplace

Erin O'Hara Meyer

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This book is a candid and entertaining guide to building effective relationships with your boss. Drawing from her experience working with GE’s legendary CEO Jack Welch, Rosanne shares invaluable advice for creating a productive partnership and excelling in your career.

Managing Up
How to Forge an Effective
Relationship With Those
Above You

Rosanne Badowski

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This book transforms the traditional assistant-boss dynamic into a collaborative partnership. It empowers assistants to take initiative, align with their boss’s work style, and unlock creativity, enhancing both their value and career prospects.

Building a Partnership
with Your Boss

Jerry Wisinski

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This book is a comprehensive guide for EAs navigating the evolving demands of their profession. It equips assistants with strategies to excel in leadership, technology, conflict resolution, and organizational dynamics.

The New Executive Assistant
Advice for Succeeding in Your Career

Melba J. Duncan

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This book is a foundational resource for thriving in the demanding administrative profession. It provides essential strategies and insights to help secretaries and assistants excel, grow, and succeed in their roles.

Survival Guide for Secretaries
and Administrative Assistants

Joan M. Burge

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This book is a practical guide exploring the role of an EA. It covers the pros and cons of the profession, educational requirements, and essential office protocol to help EAs thrive in their careers.

How to Succeed in Business
as an Executive Assistant

Melba J. Duncan
Kathleen Moloney

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