Who Says It's a Man's World
The Girl's Guide to Corporate Domination
-
- $8.99
-
- $8.99
Publisher Description
Packed with insights from extraordinary women who have climbed the corporate ladder--including former McDonald’s president Jan Fields, JetBlue cofounder Ann Rhoades, and fashion pioneer Liz Lange--Who Says It's a Man’s World reveals the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of the five reputation-enhancing business areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership. Complete with an eye-opening “promotability” assessment, an ideal “success profile,” and the latest research on women in the workplace, Emily Bennington’s book provides readers with everything they need to achieve their professional goals. For the first time in US history, women form the majority of the workforce, filling more managerial positions than their male counterparts. The Atlantic has called it the “end of men.” While this may be an overstatement, one thing is certain: today’s women are primed to take over the corporate world--and Who Says It’s a Man’s World is just the resource they need to ensure they don’t stumble on the way up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thanks to business journalist Bennington, women now have an energetic, strong-minded guide to dodging the worst pitfalls of a corporate career. A survey of more than 700 female executives found, to the author's horror, that more of them preferred a male boss to working for a woman. Meanwhile, only 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs are female, and from personal experience Bennington doesn't believe that women can improve this discouraging statistic by collectively emulating Hollywood's "take-no-prisoners alpha femme" archetype. In a no-nonsense tone, she describes the corporate world's challenges and opportunities, observing that jumps in position and salary happen not at review time but when you take the bull by the horns. Topics discussed include avoiding chronic (and unproductive) busyness, conquering stress and anxiety, and moving from self-awareness to leadership, as well as setting appropriately ambitious goals with a "VIG" (virtues, intentions, and goals) list. "You must be a magnificent woman first," she points out sagely, "to have a magnificent career." Bennington's realistic, straightforward advice, bolstered with "Woman 2 Woman" narratives from executives like Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook, will prove invaluable to readers. The front illustration of a stiletto heel and the "girl's guide" wording are unfortunate, but, hey, at least the cover's not pink.
