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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Normally I am not into this type of books but totally worth it!!

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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Sally Helgesen

“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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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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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

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Sally Helgesen

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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. 4y

Laughterhp @wanderinglynn Thanks for the suggestion! I‘ll see if I can figure out who I could do something like this with. 4y

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.... 4y

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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. 4y

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. 4y

Chrissyreadit I‘m interested to hear what your meeting discussion is like. 4y

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Laughterhp

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Sally Helgesen

#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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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Sally Helgesen

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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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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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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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