How Women Rise - Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

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From the publisher

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. I need to start off this review by stating that I am not a feminist --- in fact, there are times when I have been called an anti-feminist. (Jumping up and down with joy at getting a vacuum and cast-iron pans for Christmas, Changing my last name, and refusing to be called Ms. to the point where I returned my SIL’s Christmas card as it had me as Ms. Pole vs. Mrs. Cousineau!) In the preface, this was the quote that stuck out: If any of these behaviors are getting in your way, or you anticipate that they may do so as you move higher, please read on. This book is for you.” Case after case (reflecting the above twelve habits) show how so many women bugger themselves on their career path and what can be done to fix that. Something solidified after reading this book --- I don’t want a career. I don’t want to be a “brand”. I just want a job where I can show up, be paid and do what I enjoy after work (like writing book reviews!!) and leave it all behind once I hit my car. This was probably NOT the purpose of the book but I will be less stressed, ruminate nothing except my personal life and start living it! Nonetheless, five stars from me for freeing me from being “stuck” in a totally opposite way.