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Own It
- The Power of Women at Work
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Sallie Krawcheck
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have.
Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female president, equal pay on the horizon, true diversity in the workplace to come thereafter? Or at least the end of "fat shaming" and "locker room talk"?
Well, we aren't quite there yet. But does that mean that progress for women in business has come to a screeching halt? It's true that the old rules didn't get us as far as we hoped. But we can go the distance, and we can close the gaps that still exist. We just need a new way.
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Success for professional women will no longer be about trying to compete at the men's version of the game, she says. And it will no longer be about contorting ourselves to men's expectations of how powerful people behave. Instead it's about embracing and investing in our innate strengths as women - and bringing them proudly and unapologetically to work.
When we do, she says, we gain the power to advance in our careers in more natural ways. We gain the power to initiate courageous conversations in the workplace. We gain the power to forge nontraditional career paths, to leave companies that don't respect our worth and instead go start our own. And we gain the power to invest our economic muscle in making our lives and the world better.
Here Krawcheck draws on her experiences at the highest levels of business, both as one of the few women at the top rungs of the biggest boy's club in the world and as an entrepreneur, to show women how to seize this seismic shift in power to take their careers to the next level.
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- JRS_98
- 08-04-18
An inspiration and still practical
A colleague recommended that I read /listen to this book. So glad she did. It is wonderfully honest, inspiring and practical. So many great nuggets of our strength, power and influence as woman, several of which I had never heard. The best piece of advice, in my opinion, is the chapter on investing. Just wow!
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- Anonymous User
- 24-05-20
THANK YOU SALLIE
Great message! I am fresh out of college and a little unsure of my path as a future professional woman and this book really helped. Im so inspired now to go and actually try out advice from this book. Even though this is a book geared towards women, it’s still refreshing and not over powering with feminism rhetoric. Read the book if you are a woman who has never felt right with the common advice on how to “win” in the professional work environment by acting like a man. You’ll see what I mean! Yes, as some other reviews have said that the book repeatedly mentions Sallie’s company but that’s because her company (Ellevest) is amazing and really does make women comfortable when investing which is SUPER important. If you don’t think investing your money is important, then you NEED this book even more than you know.
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- ABeck
- 11-11-19
A Sales Pitch For Ellevest
I got this book looking for a more down to earth realistic point of view as I start my career. And as much as I wanted to like it and be inspired the whole thing just felt off. There are a few inspiring points in this book and some stories from the authors life that are relatable. But every chapter contains at least a small sales pitch for investing in the author's company. There is one main point that is repeated in this book ad nauseam. Women add diversity to the workspace so don't feel bad for not "fitting in" in an office full of men. You bring something unique that the company needs to succeed so be yourself and follow your instincts. The writer makes clear she wants to buck the stereotypes of women in business books but tends to lean on them heavily to support herself being a "stronger businesswoman." I don't recommend it.
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- Kinga
- 29-01-17
A must read for every woman
Not to be missed for any woman who wants to take charge of her life and career.
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- Micheem
- 09-11-17
Great advice & insights narrated well.
This is definitely one of the better books on women in business I've heard/read. Sometimes when I'm listening to these types of audiobooks, I can get distracted and feel like I didn't miss anything, but with this one, I consciously pushed pause when I found myself not paying attention. To me, that's a sign I'm fully engaged in learning from the author!
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- Becky
- 14-09-20
Career game changing !
Came across this book by accident and it changed my life ! Shared it with my networks and friends and have been more intentional about a lot of my career descisions ! Awesome awesome awesome !
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-07-19
Super inspiring
Sallie is a total boss! She’s so smart and inspiring. I love her outlook and I’m looking into Ellevest now.
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- Yu
- 22-06-19
Interesting personal story, too much promotion for her businesses
The author’s personal story is interesting and her accomplishment impressive. However half the book is about her two startups and reads like sales pitch (although it’s not exactly selling their service, but she’s promoting networking and financial management disproportionally). Not every reader is so interested in those specific topics.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-02-19
brilliant
a real life way to look at gender diversity and how it affects all of us. Love it. I am changed
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- Jolina St. Pierre
- 08-02-19
Excellent Advice
The book wasn’t exactly what I thought it was going to be, but it definitely had some great advice, financial and career-wise. I definitely recommend to any woman out there. Single or otherwise.