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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
First published 2004 · 288 pages
A pragmatic, tough-love coaching session designed to help women unlearn the polite habits holding them back at work.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting down with a seasoned, no-nonsense executive coach who is determined to see you succeed. The pace is brisk and highly structured, moving swiftly through specific behaviors that women are socialized to adopt, but which ultimately hinder their professional growth. The mood is both confronting and deeply motivational, asking the reader to reflect on their own habits like over-explaining or backing down too easily before pivoting immediately to actionable solutions. Written in clear, authoritative prose, it strips away the fluff to deliver pragmatic advice. It will delight ambitious women who feel stuck in their careers and are ready to trade people-pleasing tendencies for the strategic know-how needed to claim their space and advance.
- Mood
- motivational
- reflective
- action-oriented
- Tone
- direct
- instructive
- empowering
- pragmatic
- authoritative
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- career advancement · unlearning socialization · professional empowerment · self-actualization · overcoming self-sabotage
- The writing
- Clear, straightforward, and structured as actionable coaching advice.
- The arc
- Moves from a confronting realization of self-sabotaging habits to an empowered sense of professional agency.
- Who it's for
- Women in the workplace looking to break through stagnation and claim their professional power.
Content notes
- discussion of gendered socialization
- workplace inequality
About the book
If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offending others and back down too easily...explain too much when asked for information....or "poll" your friends and colleagues before making a decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions and ignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not be aware of it, girlish behaviors such as these are sabotaging your career!Dr. Lois Frankel reveals why some women roar ahead in their careers while others stagnate. She's spotted a unique set of behaviors--101 in all--that women learn in girlhood that sabotage them as adults. Now, in this groudbreaking guide, she helps you eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back--and offers invaluable coaching tips you can easily incorporate into your social and business skills. If you recognize and change the behaviors that say "girl" not "woman", the results will pay off in carrer opportunites you never thought possible--and in an image that identifies you as someone with the power and know-how to occupy the corner office.
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