Same Game Different Rules - Softcover

Hollands, Jean

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9780071407601: Same Game Different Rules

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ISBN 10: 007140760X ISBN 13: 9780071407601

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

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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 of executives at many of the nation's top shops--including Cisco Systems, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Wells Fargo, Sun Microsystems, and Netscape--she identifies the four main types of Bully Broad--the Sounding-Off Tyrant, the Sarcastic Aggressive, the Selectively Quiet, and the Silent Judge. She provides self-quizzes for determining if you or someone you know is a Bully Broad, or in danger of becoming one, and for gauging the effect that that Bully Broad has on co-workers. Ice Queens are cousins of the Silent Bully, so they are discussed at various points in the book. Hollands develops a set of indispensable rules for playing and winning the game in the new world of work, including: Don't burn bridges--ever; You can't control everything--perfectionism kills; Down girl! You don't need to confront at every turn; You don't own the company--and it's not your money.; Don't judge--enjoy! and Listen up until you want to throw up. Don't let shaky "people" skills derail your career and undermine all you've worked so hard for. Read Same Game, Different Rules and learn powerful lessons on how to work with difficult people who may scare you or overwhelm you. The final payoff will be methods to achieve your goals and derive more satisfaction from your work and your life without compromising your high standards.

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From the Publisher:

 In the tradition of bestselling, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, this book provides success strategies women can use on their own terms  Chock-full of accessible case studies and practical tips that readers can put into action immediately  Jean Hollands has extensive media contacts, and has been profiled in Business Week, The Industry Standard, Business 2.0, Harvard Business Review, American Airlines Magazine etc  Her company, Growth & Leadership Center is Silicon Valley s leading executive management consulting company  She answers directly to the CEOs and presidents of such clients as: HP, Intel, Lockheed, Netscape, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems

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EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT BULLY BROADS!

You read about them everywhere, from Elle, and Ellen Goodman's nationally-synidcated column, to The New York Times. You watched them on "The Today Show" and "Good Morning America." Bully Broads struck a nerve.

When it was first published, Same Game Different Rules set off a wave of controversy as executive coach and best-selling author Jean Hollands proved to thousands of top women executives that, contrary to their instincts, being a "Bully Broad" is not the way to business success. Tough, aggressive, and often intimidating, these uncompromising women who command authority were once the driving forces behind some of this era's most successful companies. But as Hollands explains, the same qualities that propelled these women up the corporate ladder can ruin them in today's relationship-building, teamwork-oriented corporate culture.

Based on her highly successful Bully Broads program and 20 years of experience coaching thousands of executives, Same Game, Different Rules helps women pass through, or completely avoid, the Bully Broad stage with 25 rules that won't compromise their goals or sacrifice their hard-won power and success.

"Bully Broads...offers a new set of rules for getting ahead." The New York Times

"This book is transformative. It is a must read for women executives who want to be all they can be, and it is a tremendous source of wisdom to those in a position to mentor women." Mary Cranston, Chair, Pillsbury Winthrop, named one of the most 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by National Law Journal

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