Same Game Different Rules

Download or read book Same Game Different Rules written by Jean Hollands and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a smart, ambitious, no-nonsense businesswoman with her eye on the prize--a two-fisted, go-getter who always gets results. Your superiors openly praise your competence and brains, and you are beloved by your company's clients. Now for the bad news: those same qualities that, so far, have earned you so many kudos could very well destroy all your chances of future success. Same Game Different Rules, top executive coach Jean Hollands addresses a dangerous obstacle that continues to thwart many a talented woman's ambition-- the Bully Broad factor. Tough, assertive, authoritative, often intimidating, Bully Broads have been the driving forces behind many of the most sensational success stories of the New Economy. Unfortunately, many of these exceptional women are discovering, too late, that the very qualities that propelled them up the corporate ladder can just as easily ruin them in today's relationship-building, teamwork-oriented corporate culture. Writing for women in every career stage, Jean Hollands offers her prescription for getting ahead without being perceived as a Bully Broad, Ice Queen, or Ms. Understood. Drawing upon her twenty years of experience coaching thousands