5 things learned from reading this book:
- Leadership is gender-neutral.
- When negotiating a salary or raise, do your research and know what you're worth.
- Don't get emotional (Men don't. Why should you?).
- Don't work twice as hard as men. It's apparently from the 235 years of income disparity between men and women that this work ethic and strategy has never worked to propel women to the top 1%. (I made that one up. Not in the book.)
- Women hold other women to much tougher standards than men in the workplace.
Anyhow, back to the book. Mika takes insight from other top-level business women and integrates what they say about how women get in their own way and the interpersonal roadblocks they face in the workplace. It's more than just the choices, behaviors, language and mindsets that are holding women back from earning their potential. It all comes down to you and how you perceive your own worth and value in the workplace; and how you communicate that to your manager in a way that doesn't make a woman feel threatened or a man feel insecure. *laugh* That sums it up.
As my mom says, politics is when two people get together. But, that topic is for another post.
