How Men Think: Seven Essential Rules for Making it in a Man's World - Softcover

Mendell, Adrienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099197324 ISBN 13: 9780099197324

Publisher: Vermilion, 1996

Synopsis

A handbook for any woman in the workplace to how her male colleagues think at work.

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From the Back Cover

Men at work do it all the time: They brag, cover up their mistakes, pretend to know what they don't, start fights. And they still get ahead! Why? As psychologist Adrienne Mendell learned after she interviewed one hundred male executives, women have learned to suppress the very qualities that men value most in the world of work. And since men are still in the power positions, if you don't play it their way, you don't play at all. Based on Mendell's interviews and her experience of counseling hundreds of frustrated career women, How Men Think identifies the seven rules that men learned by playing sports as children - in games that excluded girls. These rules may seem simple on the surface, but understanding them as men do is anything but easy. You may have fallen into many of these traps yourself: you're mad because you want your male boss to let you control your projects. But you've got to take control - that's the only way you'll get it; you're steamed because a male colleague consistently takes credit for your work. Do you make a point of touting your accomplishments?; when you make a mistake you apologize. But the man you apologize to doesn't think you're polite - he thinks you're admitting incompetence; and a fight with a male colleague leaves you shaken. But the men in your office shout at each other for an hour and then go out for a beer. These are the times that try women's souls! The strategies, insights, and eye-opening advice in How Men Think will help you get along better with the boys and propel you to the top where you belong.

Synopsis

A handbook on understanding the male corporate mentality, which examines the differences between male and female thinking and behaviour in the workplace, and discusses the characteristics that men carry with them from their childhood to the world of business.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vermilion
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099197324
• ISBN 13: 9780099197324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272