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99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the Life You Want
Random House
April 2011
On Sale: April 19, 2011
320 pages ISBN: 0307590461 EAN: 9780307590466 Hardcover
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Self-Help
Offering the same brand of practical, no-holds-barred,
expert advice that made Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner
Office an international million-copy bestseller, Nice Girls
Just Don't Get It teaches us the skills we need to turn from
a nice girl into a winning woman, not just in our careers
but in our relationships, families, and everyday lives. Have you ever felt invisible? Taken advantage of? Reluctant
(or unable) to articulate what you really want? If so, join
the club. The nice girls club. Nice girls—that's right,
girls—are those more concerned with pleasing others than
with addressing their own needs and haven't yet learned how
to overcome the childhood messages cultural stereotypes
keeping them from getting their voices heard, their needs
met, and the lives they want. This book will turn those nice girls into winning women.
That is, women who factor their own needs in with those of
others, confront those who treat them disrespectfully,
maintain healthy and mutually beneficial relationships with
appropriate boundaries— and as a result, are happier and
more successful in every area of their life. In 2004, Lois Frankel blew the lid off so many of our
long-held ideas about gender and success with her
bestselling Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, which
went on to become such a huge phenomenon, the term "nice
girls" has secured a place in our cultural lexicon. Here,
Frankel teams up with negotiation expert Carol Frohlinger to
bring this bestselling advice out of the workplace and
provide a broader set of skills that any woman—whether a CEO
or stay-at-home mom—can use to win anywhere, with anyone. Presented in the straightforward, digestible format that
helped make Nice Girl's Don't Get the Corner Office an
instant hit, Frankel and Frohlinger outline seven practical
strategies and 99 supporting tactics that every winning
woman should know. By the time you've finished reading this
book, you'll be able to: • Get your husband to do his half of the household
chores—without being made to feel like a nag.
• Stop overextending yourself by taking on all the
unpleasant tasks no one on your volunteer board, or your
team at work will go near.
• Win an argument with your mother in law about who will be
hosting Christmas dinner.
• Have the courage to send back a meal that isn’t prepared
the way you’d ordered it.
• Confront a colleague who is shirking responsibility or
taking credit for your work. • Convince a sales person to reduce a fee, waive a
surcharge, or honor a store credit. • Question a doctor’s course or treatment or request a
second opinion, instead of simply going along in order to be
a “good” patient. • Firmly but politely bow out of an extravagant vacation to
celebrate a friend’s birthday that you simply can’t
afford–without feeling guilty about it. And so much more. A must-read for anyone who's ever felt taken advantage of by
a friend or family member, unappreciated by a spouse or
partner, or exploited by a vindictive neighbor or co-worker,
Nice Girls Just Don't Get It offers women the indispensable
knowledge and skills to get the things they want, the
respect they've earned, and the success they deserve.
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