How Women Rise
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 realised 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 handbook for women trying to take the next step in their careers. They realised 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:
Reluctance to Claim Your Achievements
Expecting Others to Spontaneously Notice and Reward Your Hard Work
Overvaluing Expertise
Building Rather than Leveraging Relationships
Failing to Enlist Allies from Day One
Putting Your Job Before Your Career
The Disease to Please
The Perfection Trap
Minimising
Too Much
Ruminating
Letting Your Radar Distract You
Whether for your own development or to enrich conversations when coaching other women, ‘How Women Rise’ is an inspiring and practical resource. All twelve habits are well worth a read, and the examples bring to life the many ways these behaviours can get in the way and the different experiences senior women have had in responding to them. And crucially, the last section of the book is a great primer on change – how to take that first step and how to sustain the effort over time.
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