Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office: 101 unconscious mistakes women make...

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Lois Frankel, an internationally recognized corporate coach and author, reveals the 101 self-sabotaging behaviors women learn as girls - behaviors and habits that are now holding them back in the workplace. This BS that is mascaraed as coaching is nothing more than an attempt to push women shift their behavior because men aren’t willing to shift their own. Simply inform whoever needs to be informed that you’ll be late or out and offer assurance that the projects you’re working on are on track for completion. What we don't need in 2017 is a corporate, literary version of Cosmopolitan magazine, telling women how to comply with men's expectations of women at work. I think my opinion isn't valid, so I try to talk (on the rare occasions that I *do* talk) as quickly as possible so that someone else with a better opinion can speak.

After a bit of pressure/boost of confidence from a coworker, I volunteered for a writing assignment, and my boss said "sure. Finally, in addition to being meek and mild, women are taught to take up as little space as possible. No matter what hand life deals us, we are ultimately left with the dilemma of how we choose to respond.I was pleasantly surprised that I could apply a large majority of the advice to my day-to-day interactions. Make a list of 3-5 things you enjoy at work, then translate them into strengths, and then note how that makes you different than others. And "It's true I don't have all the qualifications listed, but what makes me a viable candidate is my depth of hands-on experience.

It would be nice if someday, we, as a society, ever get to a time when men aren't advantaged in business by their sex and women didn't have to make themselves over just to get ahead.

If you’re concerned only with being liked, you will most likely miss the opportunity to be respected. She spoke with a delicate Southern accent and had an alluring way of cocking her head and smiling when listening to others.