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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Marshall Goldsmith, Sally Helgesen
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Since the publication of his international bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, business guru Marshall Goldsmith has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the world, sharing the ideas he put forth in that groundbreaking book. But a few years ago, he realized that while some of the habits he outlined in What Got You Here apply to both men and women, women face specific, and different, challenges as they seek to advance in their careers. So he partnered with his longtime colleague, women's leadership expert Sally Helgesen, to create this invaluable handbook for women trying to take the next step in their careers. They realized that for women in particular, the very skills and habits that made them successful early in their careers could actually be holding them back as they advance to the next stage of their working lives. Women in particular struggle with habits like: 1. Reluctance to Claim Your Achievements 2. Expecting Others to Spontaneously Notice and Reward Your Hard Work 3. Overvaluing Expertise 4. Building Rather than Leveraging Relationships 5. Failing to Enlist Allies from Day One 6. Putting Your Job Before Your Career 7. The Disease to Please 8. The Perfection Trap 9. Minimizing 10. Too Much 11. Ruminating 12. Letting Your Radar Distract You Like the original What Got You Here, this new book will help women identify specific behaviors that keep them from realizing their full potential, no matter what stage they are in their career. It will also help them identify why what worked for them in the past will not necessarily get them where they want to go in the future--and how to finally shed those behaviors so they can advance to the next level, whatever that may be.
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Paus0312
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Normally I am not into this type of books but totally worth it!!

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Paus0312

“Perfect is the enemy of good.In other words, don‘t agonize, don‘t imagine you need to start in the perfect place or get every step exactly right. Just get going”

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LisaLovesToRead
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This book was decent, but not always groundbreaking or inspirational. Still, it had some tips. The authors seemed set on not trying to be accused of sexism and stereotypes, so there was a lot of repetition of phrases like, “we acknowledge that is not true of all women.”

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Laughterhp
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Just finished this and I‘ll need to sit and think for a bit. The book gives you 12 habits that are most common in women and tells you how to go about realizing them and trying to fix them. The advice is really just, ask someone to help you out, which I don‘t love. I work remotely, so I can‘t exactly have someone hold me accountable all the time.

I‘ll need to figure out how to change my habits but at least I know what the issues are.

wanderinglynn One way to have accountability even working from home is have someone check in with you the same time each week, biweekly, or even monthly. Schedule it like a meeting. My friend Ali and I do this. We made a calendar appointment and each month, we check in with each other to make sure we‘re both doing our progress reports. It‘s on my calendar so I know it‘s coming and it keeps me accountable. 3y
Laughterhp @wanderinglynn Thanks for the suggestion! I‘ll see if I can figure out who I could do something like this with. 3y
Chrissyreadit @Laughterhp I found friends on Litsy have also helped with this- we partnered for Lynn‘s BFC- so you can also use a virtual friend if it helps! Did you enjoy the book overall? I feel like we get so many mixed messages as women. I also feel like over expectations are part of normal because a patriarchal culture does not necessarily want women to succeed.... 3y
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Laughterhp @Chrissyreadit Overall, I liked the book and it was easy to read and had a bunch of real world examples that were nice. It was just what you can do to try and change your habits but doesn‘t address how to handle misogyny and you basically have to act more like a man (loud etc) to succeed. But a lot of the examples were engineers/lawyers. I‘m hoping my book club discussion helps a bit. 3y
Chrissyreadit Yes- exactly!!! And even that acting assertively is acting like a man and depending on your boss is taken and described differently- when I‘m assertive it‘s blamed on my NY attitude and not complimentary - it‘s exhausting to see that women also support and protect patriarchal practice. 3y
Chrissyreadit I‘m interested to hear what your meeting discussion is like. 3y
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Laughterhp
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#SundayReading - Part of an industry book club that‘s meeting on Wednesday of this week! I had great intentions of reading like 20 pages a day and of course I‘ve only picked up the book like 3 times 🤦‍♀️

This book is so interesting. I‘m like “oh, I definitely do that!” So it‘s very eye opening!

#nonfiction

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beaconhillbooks
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Honestly think all women should read this even just to gain insight into differences between how women and men think.

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Well-ReadNeck
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This was a well-developed self-help book that should be a must read for any woman in the workplace. A great addition to the business self-development genre. Lots of specific advice, examples and concrete ways to address the issues presented. Many of the ideas here, I have seen in practice, but did not know how to characterize. Highly recommended. #netgalley

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Sydsavvy
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And another #TBRtemptation for your work week hump day! Let's do this!

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