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Title: Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business by Pat, Ph.D. Heim, Susan K. Golant ISBN: 0-452-27080-4 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If You Want to Be a Successful Businesswoman, Read This!!
Comment: This book was recommended to me during my first year of MBA school when I was trying to understand the men I was forced to work with and their seemingly impossible behavior. It unravels the game of office politics and sets forth an achievable and sensible set of behaviors to guide all working women on the path to success. Now after having acheived my second promotion in two years post-MBA working in a male-dominated industry, I credit much of my success to playing by the rules of the game of business as set forth in this book (being an avid golfer doesn't hurt, either!) The rules are designed by men and based on the rules of their childhood games, rather than ours. Neither way is better, it's just different, and in order to survive in the business world and be successful it is imperative that women understand the rules of the game in order to be effective players. Your mother doesn't teach you these rules, neither do MBA professors nor your male colleagues. You must get this valuable information from somewhere, and this book is an excellent resource. This book is my work "bible" and I find myself referring to it often depending upon the particular work challenge I'm facing at the time. Kudos to Pat Heim. No working woman who aspires to be successful in business should be without this valuable and insightful guidebook to a man's world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Telling it Like It Really Is
Comment: Pat Heim's book is the only management techniques book for women that acknowledges men's rules, without "selling out" to them. As she points out, knowing how the boys play doesn't mean that the same behavior will be perceived or received the same way from women - a key distinction ignored by all other books I've read on this topic.
Her follow-up book, Smashing the Glass Ceiling, provides a situation-by-situation manual for applying her insights (if you can find it - ask amazon or contact her at the email address she provides above.) Both books offer specific advice in a well-written, articulate presentation. I highly recommend them.
You may also be interested to know she has a great videotape series (expensive, but well worth the corporate dime, according to the feedback in my organization) and she is a terrific trainer (I've met her and was impressed.)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the better self help books out there
Comment: I am not a big fan of self-help books, but bought this at a friends recommendation and found it very helpful despite my lack of enthusiasm typically for "pop psychology/sociology". I have often found myself confused as to why I was doing what I thought I was supposed to do in order to be successful: working hard, being what I thought was a good "team player" and serving my organization, and yet I kept finding myself being attacked, hurt, and even demoted. This book explains the "rules" and gives insight into how to play the game that exists in todays American workplace. I'll know that women have really made headway in the workplace when there are self help books out there teaching men how to "play the game" in a woman's cultural world too, but till then, women in the workplace need books like this.
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