15 lies women are told at work : and the truth we need to succeed

15 lies women are told at work And the truth we need to succeed

Bonnie Hammer

Book - 2024

"Bonnie Hammer's legendary career spans five decades in a turbulent, male-driven industry. Today, Bonnie is a powerful leader at the very top of her field, and women at all levels constantly ask her: What is your secret to success? Her power--and her staying power--comes from rejecting common myths about how women are "supposed" to act in the workplace. She knows that the conventional wisdom women are told about work--pithy phrases like "Don't mix work with play," "Talk is cheap," "Follow your dreams," "Know your worth," "Trust your gut," and "You can have it all, "--Hold women back. Having risen from an entry-level production assistant whose chief charge w...as a dog to a transformative top executive at NBCUniversal, Bonnie challenges workplace misperceptions and shares the uncommon sense women need to succeed"--

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Subjects
Successful women.
Success in business.
Women executives.
Women employees.
Businesswomen.
Published
New York : Simon Element, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Bonnie Hammer (author)
Edition
First Simon Element hardcover edition
Physical Description
312 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781668027615
  • Introduction
  • Starting Out
  • 1. Follow Your Dreams / Follow The Opportunities
  • 2. Know Your Worth / Work On Your Worth
  • 3. Have Friends In High Places / Find Truth-Tellers In Every Location
  • 4. It's What's On The Inside That Counts / What's On Our Outsides Matters, Too
  • 5. You Can Have It Alt / You Will Have Choices
  • Standing Out
  • 6. Fake It Til You Make It / Face It Til You Make It
  • 7. It's A Man's World / Only If You Let It Be
  • 8. Talk Is Cheap / Talk Is A Valuable Currency
  • 9. Good Things Come To Those Who Wait / Great Things Come To Those Who Act
  • 10. There's Nowhere To Go But Up / Success Has Multiple Directions
  • Stepping Up
  • 11. Trust Your Gut / Check Your Gut
  • 12. Don't Sweat The Small Stuff / Sweat All Stuff
  • 13. The Winner Takes All / Winning Isn't Everything
  • 14. Don't Mix Work With Play / All Work And No Play Makes Everyone Dull
  • 15. If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It / If It Could Be Better, It Might Be Broken
  • 16. The Only Constant In Life Is Change
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Three elements define business books written by highly successful women sharing work secrets: ensuring that other, younger professionals learn from the author's mistakes and victories; leaving a legacy of thought leadership; and simply telling the author's story. "Queen of Cable" Hammer, vice chair of NBCUniversal, excels especially in this last element. Basing her book around "15 lies" is a more contemporary version of demystifying the lessons we've long been taught. For instance, the importance of both inside and outside appearances for women professionals has long been an accepted fact, as has the idea that "great things come to those who act." Hammer's material takes on individuality in her anecdotes and occasional sidebars. Readers will learn about her career and its successes and learning opportunities along with tales of family, friends--and mistakes. At-a-glance lessons take the form of, for instance, reframing failure, a list of to-dos for brainstorming, and the subtleties of apologizing.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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