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Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn (Paperback)
by Gail Evans
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Woman career success, Women in business, Female professionals, Corporate world |
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Exploring miscommunication and misconception stalls that occur at work, especially the ones that tend to occur among men and women and providing sound advice for overcoming the same stalls, this is another must read for all professional women and men. |
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Author: Gail Evans
Publisher: Broadway
Pub. in: September, 2001
ISBN: 076790463X
Pages: 191
Measurements: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01347
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0767904636
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A New York Times Business Bestseller and one of the most helpful books for women in corporate world. |
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Gail Evans openly sheds light on the dirty little secret in America's board rooms - and dares to take on the male-dominated corporate world where other women have kept quiet.
As a woman of the Generation called 'X', this startling revelation comes just in time. Young women in the corporate world today have certainly benefitted from the struggle of our fore sisters and we revel in the relative equality afforded us by their braveness in the past.
But our equality perception is shortsighted if we believe that all progress has already been made and that we don't need to do anything about it.
As Evans shockingly points out, "women make up almost half of today's labor force but in corporate America they don't even share half the power and only four of the Fortune 500 CEO's are women". This is an abyssmal and disheartening realization especially for young women - and one which Evans' book lays out a daring strategy designed to overcome.
"Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman" reminds us that success in the business world IS about strategy. Because men have dominated the business world for so long - they have developed their own rules without the input of women. Evans clearly identifies these rules, makes us aware as women of their importance to operating in business- and then provides useful and practical advice on how women can diplomatically follow these rules and finesse them to our (READ: women) advantage.
"Play Like A Man, Win Like A Woman" is perfect for young women wondering what it takes to get to the top and how to do it - and in the process learn ways by which we can make our own strides in the fight for corporate equality.
(From quoting Joy DiBenedetto, USA)
Target readers:
All career women and men who want to advance their careers.
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An executive vice president at CNN, Gail Evans oversees the network's talk shows (Burden of Proof, CNN & Co, Crossfire, Both Sides with Jesse Jackson, Evans & Novak, Capital Gang, and Talk Back Live), the booking and research department, and recruiting and talent development. Evans's programs have received numerous awards, including a Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television; the Breakthrough Award for Women, Men, and Media; and several Emmy nominations. She lives in Atlanta.
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From Publisher
Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate America they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been in the last few years that even half of the Fortune 500 companies have more than one female officer.
A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to play the game of business.
Throughout her career in the supercompetitive, male-dominated media industry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerful executives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feel lost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a game without knowing the directions.
She tells them that's exactly the case: Business is indeed a game, and like any game, there are rules to playing well. For the most part, Gail has discovered, women don't know them.
Men know these rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career.
Now, in her book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, Gail Evans reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage.
Sharing with humor and candor her years of lessons from corporate life, Gail Evans gives readers practical tools for making the right decisions at work. Among the rules you will learn are:
• How to Keep Score at Work • When to Take a Risk • How to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome • Ten Vocabulary Words That Mean Different Things to Men and Women • Why Men Can be Ugly, and You Can't • When to Quit Your Job
Evans is not saying that every woman has to play exactly by men's rules--not at all. Women bring many inherent traits to the workplace that can provide them with a potential advantage over men, such as a woman's ability to form relationships, or her intuition. But women do need to know the basic rules so that they can understand the full consequences of their every action and how it makes an impact on their career.
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace.
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"I want to let you women in on a secret I've learned through my years in the corporate world: There is a set of unwritten rules in business and, while you may not choose to follow all of them, if you don't know what they are, you might as well be playing the game with both hands tied behind your back." - Gail Evans
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USA Today (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
[This] book is perfect for any woman looking for a step-by-step guide to becoming just as ruthless–and successful–as her boss.
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Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service, USA
<2008-04-10 00:00>
It's… The Rules for women on the corporate ladder, a no-nonsense look at what isn’t fair and how to get beyond it." |
Kathryn (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-11 00:00>
Gail Evans' Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman is a book that is helping me now and will be very helpful in the future for me. As an electrical engineering student, I know what it's like to be in a male dominated field. Evans explores the differences between men and women and how this affects their performance in the workplace and whether or not they move up the corporate ladder. She compares the workplace to a game with rules written by men. She uses this metaphor throughout the book to explain the rules for playing the game of success. She stresses that the most important thing is to enjoy your career and explains that many women in male dominated professions do not enjoy their jobs because they feel isolated from the other workers. Evans offers solutions to this problem and more that women encounter when attempting to advance in the job market. Overall this book contains a lot of information that is essential for females who are trying to get ahead in the world (it's also good for men who want to figure out why the women they work with act the way they do). Gail Evans is the role model every woman in the business world needs! |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-11 00:00>
Having attained a significant amount of success in high tech management within two companies where I was the only woman in my peer group, I bought this book more out of curiosity than with the expectation of learning anything new. Much to my surprise, Gail Evan's book not only confirmed some assumptions that I'd made along the way, but really opened my eyes to a whole new way of looking at a number of situations that have occured in my everyday business activities. What a great book...the only improvement that I could suggest, would be for Ms. Evan's to have written this book ten years ago! Great read for the seasoned female exec as well as those looking to climb the corporate ladder. |
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