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Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn
: Gail's rules are a must for anyone aspiring to be successful in business. This book needs to be on your must read list. There are so many obstacles to a successful business career, not knowing how the game is played shouldn't be one of them. Read it - now!
 I would read a chapter a night and sure enough sometime that next week I would see Evans' scenario played right out in front of me. Wow. I would catch myself making the mistakes Evans points out in her book. Stepping back and looking at the leaders in my company I can now see why some women are ahead -- they knew how to play the game. The biggest point Evans makes is that the rules were made up by men because women weren't around. You've got to stay in the game if you want to change the rules. I intend to stay.
Both practical and wonderfully subversive. So many other books talk about how men and women are different. This book takes it to the next step: here's how to ACT like men do and beat them at their own game. I recognized so many things from my own workplace as true (I even kept a running tally in my head as I read it: "Uh-oh, I do that - need to stop" or "I've managed not to fall into that trap".) I read the book in one evening and started to changes some of my behavior the next workday. A must-read book for anyone working in a corporate environment. The men won't know what hit them!
This book is not perfect by any stretch. The author is guilty of some classic gender stereotypes here. But if you can get beyond some of the old-skool mentality there are really some nuggets of insight and advice. After all, the 'younger' generation (Gen-X?) works for companies run by the author's contemporaries and it can't hurt to understand these CEO types better. I recommend this for its tips for todays working woman with a few bumps on her head from the glass ceiling. I'm starting with my sister.
Gail Evans shares her vast corporate experience with women on the way up, giving them a glimpse at the playbook men in business have instinctively used for years. All working women need to read this to learn how they may be unwittingly holding themselves back from achieving the success they want at work. Men need to read it to learn more about themselves, and more about the women who may some day be their bosses.
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