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Good advice The pointers work equally well for men and women.
New York Times
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Complete Woman
Girlfriends, follow the recommendations in this important book and you will be more admired, respected, and important in your career. This book will help you become appropriately assertive, responsible, courageous, adult, and proficient in important people skills.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Whether youre at entry-level or you already occupy the corner office, you need to know which nice girl mistakes are affecting, or sabotaging, your career and your life. As youre reading NICE GIRLS DONT GET THE CORNER OFFICE youll instantly recognize some of your own errors, and Lois will give you common sense solutions on how to avoid them.
Karen Finerman, CEO, Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Inc.,
CNBCs The Chairwoman, and author of Finermans Rules
Every page of this book is filled with something you or one of your friends does every day A simple, quick guide to presenting ourselves as the strong and bold women we are.
Gail Evans, author of She Wins, You Win and Play Like a Man,
Win Like a Woman
A frank career primer that can help us eliminate habits that hold us back in the workplace.
Essence
A must-have book for any woman looking to get ahead. Follow Lois Frankels advice and youll be sure to avoid the pitfalls women often make in their careers.
Barbara Stanny, author of Secrets of Six-Figure Women and
Overcoming Underearning
Excellent This is a superb learning tool, I cant recommend it enough.
Kingston Observer (Kingston, MA)
A very intelligent book these tips can help you succeed in business without really trying.
ShelfLife
Dr. Lois Frankels advice is critical for any woman who wants to keep her balance on the thin pink line, the narrow band of acceptable behavior for women in the workplace. This new edition is out just in time for a new generation of women entering the radically changed post-recession employment environment. Even if you read the previous edition, you need this new one. If somehow you missed reading it, correct your mistake!
Carol Frohlinger, principal, Negotiating Women, Inc., and
coauthor of Her Place at the Table
A game changer. NICE GIRLS DONT GET THE CORNER OFFICE is a blueprint for career success, and more importantly, career introspection.
Jen Haley, coordinating producer, Bloomberg US Television
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This book is dedicated to Bob Silverstein.
With his passing the world lost one of its few male feminists and I lost not only a great literary agent but also a dear friend.
First and foremost I must thank you, the readers from every corner of the globe who propelled the Nice Girls series of books to popularity, shared them with friends, bought them for your sisters and daughters, read them in book clubs, sent me e-mails with questions and comments, and invited me to speak in your organizations. I am grateful for the many ways in which you let me know how my books touched and changed your lives. You have certainly influenced mine.
Thank you to the many women who pointed out issues that I overlooked in the first edition and offered suggestions for what to include in this one. I tried my best to use all of them.
Diana Baroni, thank you for always pushing me to deliver only the best, giving me the opportunity to write this book the first time, and then welcoming the idea to update it on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication. Your foresight has made a difference in the lives of countless women.
Thank you to the entire staff at Grand Central Publishing, both past and present, who are consummate professionals at editing, designing, promoting, advertising, and everything in between that goes into producing and launching a best seller.
I am grateful to my fellow sister-authors, including Anne Fisher, Carol Frohlinger, Pamela Mitchell, Barbara Stanny, Liz Cornish, Carolyn Kepcher, and Liz Weston, for your friendship, support, and encouragement.
And finally, I thank my family and friends for your encouragement, support, and patience. You know who you are, and I love each of you.
In the intervening years since Nice Girls Dont Get the Corner Office was first published, the United States elected its first African American president, the world was introduced to the concept of social networking, the Arab Spring deposed male rulers from nearly two dozen countries, and baby boomers began their mass exodus from the world of work. Despite these changes of a huge magnitude, progress for women has remained relatively flat. Theres no denying that there has been some movement, but it has been at glacial speed, and the numbers remain largely unchanged and bleak. As of this writing: