Own It: The Power of Women at Work Audiobook (Free)
- Ellen Archer, Sallie Krawcheck
- Random House (Audio)
- 2017-01-17
Summary:
A Wall Road Journal and Washington Post Bestseller, Own It is a fresh kind of career playbook for a fresh era of feminism, offering women a new set of guidelines for professional success: one that plays with their talents and builds on the energy they curently have.
Weren’t women supposed to possess “showed up”? Perhaps with the nation’s initial female President, identical pay on the horizon, true diversity at work to come thereafter? Or, at least the end of “fat-shaming” and “locker area chat”?& about BOUGHT IT: THE ENERGY of Women at Work nbsp;
Well, we aren’t quite there yet. But does which means that that improvement for ladies in business provides come to a screeching halt? It’s true that the older rules didn’t get us as far as we hoped. But we are able to go the distance, and we are able to close the spaces that still exist. We just want a new method.
In fact, you can find many reasons to be optimistic about the future, says previous Wall Road powerhouse-turned-entrepreneur Sallie Krawcheck. That’s because the business world is normally changing fast -powered generally by technology – and it’s changing in ways that provide us even more power and possibilities than ever…and a lot more than we yet realize.
Achievement for professional women will no longer be about seeking to compete at the men’s edition of the game, she says. And it’ll no longer be about contorting ourselves to men’s objectives of how powerful people behave. Rather, it’s about embracing and investing in our innate strengths as women – and getting them happily and unapologetically, to function.
When we perform, she says, we gain the power to advance in our professions in more natural methods. We gain the power to start courageous conversations in the workplace. We gain the energy to forge non-traditional career pathways; to leave companies that don’t respect our worthy of, and instead, proceed start our own. And we gain the energy to invest our economic muscle mass to make our lives, and the world, better.
Here Krawcheck attracts on her experiences at the highest degrees of business, both as one of the few women at the very top rungs of the biggest boy’s membership in the globe, and as an entrepreneur, to show women how exactly to seize this seismic change in capacity to take their careers to another level.
This change is usually actual, and it’s coming fast. It’s period to own it.
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