Games Mother Never Taught You

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Millions of women are pouring into the work force intent on making their way up the company ladder. In this book, a management expert gives women guide-lines for seizing and holding on to power in business organizations.
Discrimination against women on the corporate ladder isn't news. What is noteworthy is that most women actually sabotage their own chances for advancement.
The cruel truth is women are unequal to men in the business world. Not because of less intelligence, energy, ability or dedication. But simply because they have no idea how to play a game that men have been playing in one form or another since boyhood.
For grownups, the name of the game is the working world, and this book can turn a woman into a winner by showing her:
• How and why business is a game, despite all solemn pronouncements to the contrary
• The very specific and unspoken rules that govern the playing and judging of the game, many with roots in the predominantly male worlds of sports and the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Millions of women are pouring into the work force intent on making their way up the company ladder. In this book, a management expert gives women guide-lines for seizing and holding on to power in business organizations.
Discrimination against women on the corporate ladder isn't news. What is noteworthy is that most women actually sabotage their own chances for advancement.
The cruel truth is women are unequal to men in the business world. Not because of less intelligence, energy, ability or dedication. But simply because they have no idea how to play a game that men have been playing in one form or another since boyhood.
For grownups, the name of the game is the working world, and this book can turn a woman into a winner by showing her:
• How and why business is a game, despite all solemn pronouncements to the contrary
• The very specific and unspoken rules that govern the playing and judging of the game, many with roots in the predominantly male worlds of sports and the military
• The special language that men know and use in business that women must learn in order to com-municate with male colleagues
• The traditional feminine attitudes that critically handicap women, leaving them confused and dis-couraged losers at the corporate power game
• How these drawbacks can be eliminated while women's special advantages can be retained to actually give them an edge over male competitors
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Once you see how easy it is to play, you're bound to jump into the game—and win, no matter what kind of organization you're in.
Covering everything from subtle inner feelings on the job to such practical matters as clothes, sex and drinking in the executive suite, this is a management expert's step-by-step guide for women on the way up!
BETTY LEHAN HARRAGAN is a management consultant devoted to women's equal participation in the priváté enterprise system. She teaches a course on corporate gamesmanship at the Womanschool and lives in New York City. Vissza