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She Wins, You Win

The Most Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to Know

by Gail Evans

Gotham Books, 2003

Category: Career & Self-Development

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In this summary you will learn

  • How women can be skillful team players
  • How women can build linkages effectively and develop informal and formal networks
  • Why women should be rainmakers
  • What pitfalls to avoid when establishing a corporate team

Why you should read She Wins, You Win

Even if you’re not a team player, this book will draft you in the first round. In plain language, author Gail Evans outlines the corporate playing field. She clearly marks the opponents, the cheerleaders and the goals women must conquer to score points in the corporate game. The book is at its best when Evans uses real-life examples to demonstrate the dramas, the discrimination and the disadvantages women face while working. Like a video of game highlights and lowlights, her examples are pulled from the pages of her own agenda book and e-mail box. She provides concrete tips to tell women how to establish and cultivate formal and informal networks. Although she does address the tug-of-war women survive while balancing home and work commitments, the book could have scored more points on the home front. Maybe Evans will do that for us next time - meanwhile getAbstract.com recommends this book to women on all rungs of the corporate ladder.

About the Author

Gail Evans - author, professional speaker and corporate mentor - is a former White House aide and the first woman named as an executive vice president at CNN. As a corporate mentor for countless women, Evans is also the author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, a New York Times business bestseller.

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