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    Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
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    Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
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    Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers

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    BEFORE YOU WERE TOLD TO "LEAN IN," DR. LOIS FRANKEL TOLD YOU HOW TO GET THAT CORNER OFFICE The New York Times bestseller, which for 10 years has been a must-have for women in business, is now completely revised and updated. In this new edition, internationally recognized executive coach Lois P. Frankel reveals a distinctive set of behaviors-over 130 in all-that women learn in girlhood that ultimately sabotage them as adults. She teaches you how to eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back and offers invaluable coaching tips that can easily be incorporated into your social and business skills. The results for hundreds of thousands of women have been career opportunities they never thought possible-at every stage of their career, from entry-level to the corner office! Stop making "nice girl" errors that can become career pitfalls, such as:
    • Mistake #13: Avoiding office politics. If you don't play the game, you can't possibly win.
    • Mistake #21: Multi-tasking. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it.
    • Mistake #54: Failure to negotiate. Don't equate negotiation with confrontation.
    • Mistake #70: Inappropriate use of social media. Once it's out there, it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
    • Mistake #82: Asking permission. Children, not adults, ask for approval. Be direct, be confident.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateFeb 18, 2014
    ISBN9781478925392
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    Reviews for Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

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    • 5/5
      This book servers as a great reminder to helping you change your nice girl persona into something more powerful.
    • 5/5
      It was so surreal to see that the title aptly describes the situation. I saw that most of the mistakes I am making in the workplace are indeed UNCONSCIOUS!!!

      It’s a great read and thanks to Lois for being generous enough to share tips for improvement with all women. I totally recommend this over and over again to all Women!
    • 4/5
      Great book! Very useful! You might not notice some of the small things that will make a difference at the end
    • 5/5
      Amazing read! the examples outlined are pretty common and she provides useful tricks and techniques on how to improve. Will definitely keep going back to this book throughout my career.
    • 5/5
      Changed my life and the way I speak to coworkers, supervisors, family and friends. It also inspired me to keep reading books like these. Going to read more from her collection.
    • 5/5
      This book motivated me to be my best version without apologizing for being strong, courageous and driven. Thank you
    • 5/5
      great book. learned a lot. i recommend to everyone even my mom.
    • 5/5
      Excellent! I would recommend women listen to this , it is very relevant for success in today's business climate!
    • 5/5
      As I am in a phase of taking more control of my life but would love to master more confidence in my work relations and with superiors I found the tips and ideas in this book as a woman very useful.
    • 5/5
      I found this book to have Great tips, and very enlightening!!
    • 5/5
      I love, love this book. I've read another of her books: nice girls don't get rich and it is exceptionally impactful too.
    • 5/5
      10/10 would recommend this book to all women looking to further not only their careers, but who want to be taken more seriously in every area of their lives. This book discusses and points out so many unconscious or subconscious behaviors and mindsets I engage in that are holding me back from asserting myself and placing importance in my own needs. I have learned some excellent strategies and tips through reading this book about how to maintain my kindness and empathy while gaining more respect and this advice is invaluable!
    • 5/5
      Empowering with great coaching tips, especially if you are not born with an iron lady mindset! This book came to my mind after listening to "Lean In" and it is well worth the 8hours and worth listening twice! I have never bookmarked so many times within a single book.
    • 5/5
      Applicable to nice girls in many situations. A good how to and reminder to those who may be passive in their outward life and aggressive (angry) in their inward life. A must read for all women - and gels!!
    • 5/5
      Very practical and enlightening. A must read for professional women!
    • 4/5
      this book gives great coaching tips about very commonly made mistakes by women (including myself). it's a bit long to listen to and the reader has quite a monotonic reading but it's worth it.
    • 4/5
      Where can I get the questionnaire mentioned in the book?
    • 5/5
      I am applying ALL Dr. Frankel's advice and I am thrilled with the results. It's empowering!!
    • 4/5
      I was able to identify several mistakes in my own behavior that I had never thought of as mistakes, but most important, I could see why those behaviors sabotage women.

      This book is for women to understand that we are still living in a world where men control the arena, but there are so many ways in which we can use our power to be successful and respected.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      As a man, I am seemingly not the target audience for this book. However, there were some interesting nuggets here and there. My primary critique is that the book seems to value a status quo position over all others. I think the book will help people in a large corporate environment more than other working conditions.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      The first part of the book was interesting and there were some good insights. She addresses the fact that all women are different and even makes note of the fact that some of the mistakes are sexist. She lost me when she got to appearance. All the advice fits standard gender norms, which I can't personally get behind, but to each her own. Where she lost me for good was her self righteous lecture on tattoos. She says quite clearly that she would never hire someone with visible tattoos since that "reflects poor judgement" and is unprofessional. She said she'd never hire someone with sleeves, her exact words, but then said she was appalled to find that her newly hired staff member wore long sleeves to cover her tattoos during the interview because it's the same as lying. So she hates liar but would never hire someone based on that aspect of their appearance. She later explains that she worked for an agency that investigated discrimination. The hypocrisy can't be lost on you. I don't know that anyone should take advice from a person who has no problem openly admitting that she discriminates in her own company.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book was useful and sometimes hard to listen to... I think anyone who chooses to read it will definitely cringe at realizing the mistakes we have made. One big disadvantage of this book is that, in my experience, the situations don't always apply to less corporate and smaller businesses types of job. Nevertheless, I wrote down a long list of good tips from this book, not just for my professional life but also for my personal life. I think that is what most women can take from this book: there is definitely something useful for everyone.

      I have to say that I was appalled by the sexist situations many women have to deal with in their work place... I think this book is incredibly valuable for raising awareness about the challenges women face all over the world. Sometimes I found it hard to agree with Dr. Frankel's tips (especially because I refuse to wear make-up to "look good" or "presentable"), but the bottomline is that that is how things are in many places. Hopefully, by following these tips more women will be able to climb the corporate ladder and start to change things around. In the meantime, I'm still not wearing make-up!

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I was about to pass this book up because the title didn't catch my attention. As I looked at the back cover,I thought to myself, "I do plenty of things to further my career, I don't need to look at this book!" Now that I've finished reading the book, I am so glad I gave this book a chance.It helped me to see how women, myself included, act in certain ways which ultimately prevents us from furthering their career or obtaining their career goals. Frankel starts in chapter one by noting that although this book lists 101 mistakes that women make in reference to their career,all women will not make all the mistakes listed in the book. After stating this fact, Frankel then presents a self-assessment chart for the reader to fill out to determine where she needs the most work to change her female behavior. Since each part of the assessment focuses on a particular weakness,each chapter following the assessment focuses on how women play the game, act, think, market,sound,look and respond. When using describing female behavior, Frankel means the behavior that girls have been taught through society as well as in their own childhoods.She feels that women have been taught to be less outspoken, to be nurturers and providers, and to cater to their male co-workers. For example, I will admit that at my job, I sometimes do the work that is assigned to others. This is because I feel if I don't do it, it won't get done; Frankel label this behavior as mistake #4: Doing the work of Others.According to the book, I can resolve this problem by only doing what I am assigned to do and if I feel guilty for saying no to others,use self-talk to replace feeling guilty. What I like most about the book is that she provides the mistake on one page and then on the opposite page, she provides coaching tips. Since she works as an executive coach, she provides lots of tips. She also provides real like experience that she had with clients in reference to each mistake and discusses the problem that each women faced as well as how with her help, they were able to come up with a solution. Overall, I feel that this is a great book for any women whether she is woman at a Fortune 500 company or at Burger King. If we as women are to be more active in the business women, we need to learn rules so we know how to play the game. Also, we need to realize that although our past behavior worked for us at one time, in order to fully obtain our career goals, we need to learn to not cater to other but instead, we need to focus on the the highest level of success possible.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book has been all that I hoped for and more. The book, in a nutshell, basically says that to get ahead in life, in career, in everything, women need to stop acting like little girls.Replete with examples from Ms. Frankel's consulting clients, this book gives practical, no-holds-barred evaluations of such behaviours as feeding people at the office, working too hard, asking questions instead of making statements, and "asking permission." That last was a revelation to me. As Ms. Frankel points out, we are all raised in a society that says you should get proper approvals before taking a step---any step. But men learn when to ask and when to just go ahead. Men learn how to apply the rubric "It's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission." Ms. Frankel pointes out that children, not adults, ask for permission to do perfectly rational things. I had never considered how detrimental to my career the habit of asking permission had been. But I decided to give Ms. Frankel's suggestions a try. They worked!If you are feeling frustrated by the glass ceiling, if you feel stuck and can't figure out why you can't get further in your career ambitions (and if you're a female), this book is definitely worth the investment. It opened my eyes to things I did that I never even thought about, things that presented an image of an incompetent child---not a competent, composed, and capable woman. My image is now improving, and yours can too.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This book is a good resource. It's easy to read with short chapters and action steps. Something like this should be in every professional woman's library. Even if you're doing a lot of things right, there are probably a few things that can be improved. I am going to buy copies for a few of my friends.