Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office : Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (Revised and Updated)

This book is so good would recommend to anyone

Enlightenment

This is one of my bookshelf favorites that I have recommended to my female co-workers and high potential newcomers to the corporate world since its first edition. Recently picked up the revised copy and it still does not disappoint. Finding that balance between being a credible, trusted business partner and being called an "aggressive b-word" is a challenge, particularly for an alpha female. While I thought I knew a lot, I was often overusing the masculine energy I had thinking that was the way to the boardroom in a male-dominated environment. Incorporating some of the tips I learned in Dr. Frankel's book, I noticed a distinct change in how my male colleagues and superiors dealt with me, all for the better. The revised copy, built for today's workplace, has been my recent nightly reading to reassess where I am now in my career and how I may need to refine myself further as I move up the ladder.

Trying to straddle being the “nice girl” and assertive business owner bites, so this book helps to draw the lines between helpful and harmful behaviors. Easy, effective reading with short lessons, perfect for busy professionals.

You don't have to agree with every word (I struggled with the hair-length hypothesis and the make-up paradigm!), but this is an ideal book for your female relations, friends and colleagues who struggle to break free of societies view of what a woman 'should' be like. I like that it mentions the 'only me' syndrome that a lot of successful women embody i.e. they crash through the glass ceiling and pull the ladder up behind them! Parents, this is for your daughters. Managers, this is for your female colleagues. A great book for women in a male dominated work place.