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Summary: Enlightening!
Review: Often, women don't realize that the genders think, act, and live differently. Gail Evans opens the world of possibilities to women of all ages and all career backgrounds. Throughout this book, the author allows women to view the world through a man's eyes. Both women and men are rasied differently even at the earliest age. Women are taught to be kind to others, try to make everything "nice", and don't ripple the waters. Men are taught to work towards an ultimate goal and to do what you need to do to get there. Careers and games go hand and hang. How will you accomplish a check-mate? Very highly recommended!
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Summary: Very Helpful!
Review: Gail Evans' Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman is a book that is helping me now and will be very helpful in the future for me. As an electrical engineering student, I know what it's like to be in a male dominated field. Evans explores the differences between men and women and how this affects their performance in the workplace and whether or not they move up the corporate ladder. She compares the workplace to a game with rules written by men. She uses this metaphor throughout the book to explain the rules for playing the game of success. She stresses that the most important thing is to enjoy your career and explains that many women in male dominated professions do not enjoy their jobs because they feel isolated from the other workers. Evans offers solutions to this problem and more that women encounter when attempting to advance in the job market. Overall this book contains a lot of information that is essential for females who are trying to get ahead in the world (it's also good for men who want to figure out why the women they work with act the way they do). Gail Evans is the role model every woman in the business world needs!
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Summary: Practical, Sound Advise
Review: This book is filled with useful, practical advise from a Gail Evans - a CNN executive vice president. The chapters are sprinkled with appropriate examples from Gail's years of experience in various capacities. Although I have read many books on the subject of gender differences at the workplace, this book offers a fresh, down-to-earth perspective. An invaluable book that reads quickly; for women who want to advance, who wonder why they aren't advancing, or who are mentoring other women.
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Summary: Not For Women Only
Review: This is a terrific book for both sexes. The main point I got out of it is YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU LIKE. Find out what you like to do and do it well. Easier said than done, no doubt.
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Summary: "The Book of Life" - Don't leave home without it!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read for women in business! The ratio of women in the IT industry is 1:10 at best. Gails book offers practical advice on how to get ahead in this (and other) male dominated industries using situations women encounter every day. I run a sales team which is has a 50/50 gender ratio. I have recommended that the females in my sales team to read this book so they can balance the dominance battle in the sales arena. For example: (1) women don't need to wait to have ALL the facts before they speak!
(2) state your achievements
(3) dress for success
... and the list goes on and on. I absolutely agree with Gail's position that women are not in star positions because they haven't yet learned how to play the game. This business woman's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" encyclopedia has helped me to understand and work with a myriad of situations which have positively advanced my career ... let it do the same for yours!
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Summary: Highly Recommended for Men, Too!
Review: Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman is described as being helpful for women. I am sure that is the case. Not being a woman, I have to share its benefits from my perspective. I have enjoyed being a mentor for many working women, and this book does a nice job of addressing the kinds of issues that these women have brought up with me as well as the ones that I have brought up with them. In the past, I have provided copies of How to Be a Star at Work as a way to assist these women. In the future, I will provide this book, as well. Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman does an excellent job of explaining how the emphasis on relationships and results need to be balanced at work. That is a juggling act that seems to confuse many women, and I found this book to be accurate and constructive in this area. Interestingly, I find that a lot of men miss these points, too. In these cases, the results are usually overemphasized at the expense of the relationships. I will also recommend this book to male colleagues and subordinates, both to make them more effective and to improve their understanding of how to communicate with female colleagues. Basically, the book is all about miscommunication and misconception stalls that occur at work, especially the ones that tend to occur among men and women. The book is very effective in exploring those stalls and inproviding sound advice for overcoming the same stalls. The only weakness I found in the book is that some subtle points about business interactions were missed. A lot of male aggressiveness and bluffing was described as just being acceptable, while the same thing by women is unacceptable. What Ms. Evans missed is that there is usually a kind of kidding humor involved to let everyone know that the aggressor is simply indicating a strong desire to play, backed up by self-confidence. That posture takes the sting out of the aggressiveness. When some women are aggressive, they may forget to use the kidding humor and relaxed tone that makes the aggressiveness tolerable to all. Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is that it permits the reader to choose her/his own goals (and those may not be material success or power) while adapting the advice to one's own personality and preferences. Basically, any advice we get that suggest we act like the individuals we are is good advice. After you read and apply this book, I suggest that you think about applying it to nonwork situations, as well. Your focus on relationships versus results may be out of balance in those circumstances, too. Find the perfect balance!
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Summary: seeing myself for the first time
Review: I left the corporate world thinking I wasn't good enough to make it up the ladder. I was convinced I failed in my first (and, so far, only) Director position because I wasn't smart enough or talented enough. This book helped me to realise that the difficulties that I encountered weren't necessarily due to some glaring deficiency on my part. It was that I didn't understand how the game was played. I'm on way back to the corporate ladder now, with a gameplan and a totally different attitude. There's nothing wrong with wanting to scale to the top, and Gail Evans gives some practical advice to use along the way.
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Summary: Absolutely a must-read
Review: My suggestion to you is, buy this book and read it once a week until you've memorized and understand the concepts in there. And then apply it, for that is the most important part in reading a book--any book. I could totally relate to the topics in the book which made the book all the more interesting and I had lots to think about afterwards. Definitely a must-read if you've ever wondered about why men and women do the things they do at work.
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Summary: Remember that man is only our colleague not enemy to defeat.
Review: As a working women since 1983, I absolutely agree her opinion about women's behavior in business mostly opposed to men. She urges us that "Ask, then you will get what you want. Seek, then you will find where you go. While men was educated by handling and enjoying games to win from their youngest age, women was not. Especially most women are lack of taking advanture to sort it out the problem compare to men, though I do not recognize that point. But I think we, both women and men, do our utmost effort to understand mutually what the difference between two people not the point of sex difference, firstly. Then we pay more attention to enhance mutual strong points at the same time change mutual weak points next time. As she said in the book, the rule originally made by men not women. But women must take a responsible for rebuild their rule more advance, if their original rule was not right. I do not think women must follow their rule compulsory as stipulated, though we know they are not right. Although women who was never experienced game or war are facing difficulties in business area, all women must adapt their trouble to settle down and catch more important title in all fields to become more comfortable living each other. When women is not separated by sex, men is not overpowered by only sex, we, women and both can live together without war. So I hope this book will be helpful for women and men's mutual understanding to cooperate not competitive, as I abovementioned. Most men are our lovely partner and mentor. They are not our enemy to defeat.
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Summary: Keys to the kingdom...
Review: This is one of the best, most practical books I have read in years. (I'm just over 35 so I assume it is "for me") Whether you agree with Gail Evans' perception of the corporate environment or not she does give good, practical advise on how to keep in the forfront and maintain upward momentum in Corporate America. I, personally, could not fathom how I could be doing the same job as my male counterparts at a far better performance level, but yet see each and every one of them continue on their "career track" while I was totally stalled. The answer was not (only) a needed change in the corporate culture, but a change in my behavior as well! This book is definitely for women who have tenure in the corporate environment where the "good 'ol boys network" is still alive and thriving, as well as those (under 35) just striking out on any venture -- corporate or independent.
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