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  • Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (A Nice Girls Book)
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office (10th Anniversary Edition)

By: Lois P. Frankel
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Before you were told to "Lean In," Dr. Lois Frankel told you how to get that corner office. The New York Times best seller, is now completely revised and updated. In this edition, internationally recognized executive coach Lois P. Frankel reveals a distinctive set of behaviors - over 130 in all - that women learn in girlhood that ultimately sabotage them as adults.  

She teaches you how to eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back and offers invaluable coaching tips that can easily be incorporated into your social and business skills. Stop making "nice girl" errors that can become career pitfalls, such as:

  • Mistake 13: Avoiding office politics. If you don't play the game, you can't possibly win. 
  • Mistake 21: Multi-tasking. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it.  
  • Mistake 54: Failure to negotiate. Don't equate negotiation with confrontation. 
  • Mistake 70: Inappropriate use of social media. Once it's out there, it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. 
  • Mistake 82: Asking permission. Children, not adults, ask for approval. Be direct, be confident. 
©2013 Lois P. Frankel (P)2013 Hachette Audio

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"This audiobook is filled with something you or one of your friends do every day…A simple, quick guide to presenting ourselves as the strong and bold women we are." (Gail Evans, author of She Wins, You Win and Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman)

"Any woman intent on getting ahead in the corporate world should listen to this book. It's a fascinating crash course in image, influence, and communication, from an accomplished and insightful coach. Terrific stuff!" (Anne Fisher, senior writer, Fortune, and "Ask Annie" career columnist, CNNmoney.com)

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still wow!😊

Brilliant...insightful and well told. buying 5 more for the important women in my life!!!!

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Must Read!

Must read for woman in any form of work force. Techniques specified are very useful to any working woman. Its also an interesting audio book to listen to.

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Great for bite-sized reading

First of all I loved the way this book was structured. Having it broken down by mistakes made it easy to listen to a couple on the way to work, on the train, walks around the block. Secondly, the way each mistake is presented, linked to a story and then accompanied by coaching tips made them really easy to understand and action every day. I've taken a lot of these tips on my stride and have noticed a big difference already with praise from my peers.

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Very dated

This has some interesting observations but was very dated, or at least I hope it was.

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This should be a working girl’s bible!

I’ve been replaying this about 3x now, to make sure I internalize the lessons. Thank you Dr. Lois for writing this!

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Very recommendable

Although some recommendations in this book are not achievable in my industry, it makes you aware of the subconscious mistakes we are doing on a daily basis.
Very good book

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Comprehensive, a long read though

Dr Frankel's book shared comprehensive insight into the psychology of women disempowering themselves and being taken advantage of in the workplace. She discussed very specific situations, strategies, habits and tools women should apply. However in saying that, if it were succinct it would have been four stars for me. Glad I read this early on in my career.

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Too many judgments

I found parts of this book a little helpful however I found the author very judgmental at times. When you start judging people on their appearance and tell me that research has found people with tattoos earn less you have lost me completely. Having a tattoo or piercing is not a reflection of the type of person you are. I found your coaching tips more like advice on who you should not be in order to get further in the corporate world. Such as not showing emotions or having a nickname. Yes, women have core beliefs that can influence their behaviour at work however this book seems to skim the surface on why that is. At times outdated and very corporate based. Not a great book for free-spirited women.

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Love it!


The title looked a bit childish at the start however the topic, the language and the narrator, All on spot! Great guidness and examples.
methodical and practical.
Evey one can relate to the topic even man's.
Truly recommended.

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Helpful.

It definitely had some great tips on how to be a professional woman. I've done a heap of bookmarking so I can go back and listen to what's relevant to me. Ultimately, it's best to pick a handful of tips to focus on and move on from there, ultimately aiming for unconscious competence.

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  • Michelle
  • 15-12-2018

Listen with a critical ear

Wow. So I will admit she makes a lot of good points. She brings attention to many subtle behaviours like body posture, eye contact, the fact that women don’t like to use the armrests in favour of « taking up less space », and how that comes construed as feeling like you don’t have much right to be there. Although a bit picky, I do see where she is coming from. But more than half the time I was thinking to myself that she...sort of hates women. She lists over 100 « mistakes » that women make in professional settings; again some of these are valid things to pay attention to, but others it’s like she’s just shaming naturally feminine behaviour. She treats traditional, ladylike behaviour as a weakness and a liability almost, and describes how one should mirror a man’s more « powerful masculine » approach instead. Newsflash to the author: men and women are inherently different. And yes, our business world still has a long way to go to be truly « equal » to both sexes. But blaming the victim and simply trying to turn women into men is not the answer.
Some of the things she went on for awhile about that I disagreed with: Don’t tuck your foot behind your ankle when you sit, because a man doesn’t do that. (Sitting that way actually shows etiquette as a lady, but she treats it as weakness). Don’t bring baked goods to the office because you will be taken less seriously for showing your nurturing side. Don’t ask for any accommodations at work while pregnant. Don’t dress in a feminine style (even conservatively), just wear a pants suit like a man. If you have visible tattoos, you have made a terrible life decision (according to her) and you deserve to suffer through the heat to cover up with long sleeves. Also try not to report sexual harassment because it will reflect badly on you. Oftentimes her tone is very abrasive and many statements extreme. From one sentence to the next, I alternated between feeling like I learned something noteworthy and just thinking she was crazy and very anti-women. Listen critically.

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  • Ray
  • 28-08-2015

Hidden Gem-A Must for Women Who Want to Excel

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I have been recommending this book to any woman who I feel has what it takes or has an interest in excelling in the business world. I can't say enough good things about it.

One thing that should be noted, is that Lois acknowledges the significant shaft that women of color experience vs white women. This is important because it shows how she can view situations objectively-which adds to her credibility. In my experience, it's rare to come across a white woman who can see and relate to our added challenges.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office?

The author said avoiding office politics was a mistake. For years, I have been trying to avoid the politics because I thought I was above it, and I thought it was the "right" thing to do. My mistake.

Have you listened to any of Lois P. Frankel’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No. N/A.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I was a bit overstimulated. In the beginning, the author goes over some appalling statistics. After the initial shock and anger, I continued on. She discusses the unconscious mistakes that women make in the workplace-and she offers coaching tips. I feel like Lois is my personal career coach. A light bulb went off with this one.

Any additional comments?

I almost didn't make the purchase because I pretty much hate the color pink (it's been forced on me all my life) and I didn't like the title. I debated between this book and How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. I thought I needed something more tailored to me-a woman. So, after reading the reviews, I decided to purchase Nice Girls. I am so glad I did.

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  • Megasaurus
  • 13-09-2014

Recovering Nice Girl

Would you listen to Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office again? Why?

I would absolutely listen to this again because its chalked full of tips and advice that apply to so many different situations a woman finds herself in at work.

What other book might you compare Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office to and why?

I thought a lot about The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman when I listened to this. While that book explores the problems women face with confidence, this book shows you how to address and conquer those problems in the workplace.

What about Lois P. Frankel’s performance did you like?

Strong confident narration - It felt like getting a pep talk from a well respected, no-nonsense mentor.

Any additional comments?

I had an epiphany-like moment over and over again when Frankel points out that when people shame a woman for unladylike behavior, it's not because there is such a shameful thing as unladylike behavior, it's because it's the easiest and most effective means of getting whatever it is they want out of you.

Because we've been so conditioned to be pleasing to others, accusing a woman of behaving in an unpleasing manner is like an automatic shut off button that manipulative people use against us. Accusations and implications of this manner have no basis in reality, it's just a means of shutting us up and keeping us out.

I'd downloaded several other career advice audiobooks before this one, as I was looking for career advice because I'm a new grad starting my first corporate job. I found the other new grad career advice books rather trite and unhelpful. I was hesitant about this purchase because I wasn't worried about snagging the "corner office," so much as just getting started, but I am so glad I found this gem as I begin my journey through the corporate world.

I'm so impressed with the book I intend on buying copies for female friends as graduation presents. I also loved that Frankel recommends a plethora of other resources and career coaching books throughout. She is a generous author who never fails to cite and recommend her influences, a rare skill in a world of self-promotional and narcissistic branding.

This was one of my favorite audible experiences. Highly Recommended!

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  • AKN
  • 22-10-2018

Male behavior is the problem

While there were tidbits of valuable guidance, overall I found the advice to be steeped in sexism. Would anyone ever ask a man to wear makeup? Never! The notion that women must make their appearance pleasing to the men in power is exactly what’s wrong with how woman are treated and viewed in the workplace. We are not objects for you to look at. This BS that is mascaraed as coaching is nothing more than an attempt to push women shift their behavior because men aren’t willing to shift their own.

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  • Lex
  • 05-06-2018

Get your powersuit and 1980s Gurl Power

TL;DR - be confident, play to your strengths, read the room (or office in this case), use critical thinking, maintain professionalism and be goal oriented. Dont give into bullies or play their games. Learn strategy and apply it to your life.

If you read the above, you dont need the book.

The narrator has a lovely voice and was pleasant to listen to.

The tone of the book is outdated, which is sad considering its only 4 years old, feels like a womens empowerment book from the 1980s. Author contradicts herself through out the book while trying to make her points. Most glaryingly obvious is her consistent comparison of men vs women, then stating how the presumed reader is not a man and should act like a woman, but not too much. The duality posed by the author seems to be pitting men and women against eachother. So much man hate and personal feeling. She takes sucker punches at the supposed patriarchy. I do agree women are raised differently from men and that, that reflects in adult behaviors. Its common knowledge at this point that men and women are different and approach work and the office environment differently. Its also common knowledge the office space is heavily geared toward men, so is the rest of the world. However the way inwhich this is all pointed out gives the air of patronizing the reader. Especially when she keeps calling the reader a "nice little girl" and telling them to grow up into a woman. ok thanks. The world has changed, its not as simple as women not being allowed in the boys club. We have so many other communities fighting for equal pay, respect and rights in the work place, and promotion options that its no longer a black and white issue. The author does nothing to address the plight of immigrant employees or LGBTQ individuals. She barely touches on the fact African American women struggle harder to succeed due to old stigmas and racism. The fact she continually tries to turn it into a two sided problem is belitting the issue. Im struggling to finish this book. But this author needs to reevaluate how she precieves the world and self. Her advice stems from a different generation and different time, its very clear she hasnt updated herself or views since the shoulder pads and powersuit era.

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  • Lauren Farmer
  • 04-03-2020

She’s so off base for the modern world

In one part of her book she says “your hair should not be too long. Each year at your company your hair should get shorter.” Like what...

Now she’s talking about accessories and wearing “playful pins..”

These are not the issues we need addressed. She’s in the last century.

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  • Kenzie Sapp
  • 21-05-2019

Quite Insulting - I couldn’t even finish

In this book, the author speaks of woman in a degrading manor - it is the opposite of empowering. She’d often give a trait and then say “you know how us women can be”. No thank you.

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  • Teethnclaws
  • 25-02-2020

Antiquated Thinking About Women's Issues

Either the author has some pretty antiquated ideas about how women should deal with the issues they are facing professionally - basically, the onus on the ugly behavior of some men being our problem to solve - or she outright hates women.

She actually tells women it is too feminine to smile a lot. Take it from the other end, where I'm constantly told to smile, which is a microaggression in itself as women are expected to be accommodating, pleasant, peacekeeping. I understand body language being important, but telling people not to smile too much is confusing. What is too much exactly?

Tells them not to dress too feminine. Apparently, if you wear a skirt, people are not going to take you seriously. Um, hon. Misogynists are not going to suddenly take me seriously if I'm wearing pants. They're not going to see me as a faceless humanoid the moment I don jeans and overlook the fact that I am female. They're going to see a woman in pants.

Don't wear jewelry, really? I think there is a tasteful balance in terms of the amount of makeup, jewelry, and fragrance people should wear. It can be distracting when anyone wears too much of anything. Regardless of gender.

Littered with degrading/demeaning language. But I should have clued into that when reading the title "nice girls." Telling me I need to grow up (into a woman) and put my big girl panties on but don't be too feminine about it.

While some of this is applicable and helpful, I don't see it being the book that is going to make or break the difference in my career.

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  • Alicia
  • 25-09-2018

Great Framework--some bias

The overall message of this book is great--women need to take proactive measures to reduce learned behaviors that will stand in their way of achieving success. This book clearly give specific examples how to overcome various obstacles from "apologizing too much" to "not dressing the part".

My one hang-up with this book was that the writer seemed to bring a little too much personal preference into the book. One example is she suggests women should consider cutting their hair shorter, as more successful women have shorter hair. The "Fortune's most Powerful Women" just came out for 2018, and it is pretty equal between short and long hair among the 50 women. I think this is a personal bias she brings in from past years or from her own personal style. There were a few other examples like this throughout the book that get a little too nit picky, but do not take away from the overall message.

I would still recommend to anyone looking to advance their career!

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  • Britni
  • 07-02-2020

The Updates Version is Already Dated

Before buying this book I read a review that said that the author was very judgmental and hated women. After listening to it, I don't think that is the case. I think she's just out of touch with modern offices. Some of her advice is timeless, but a lot of it is reallly dated. There is a section on accessories where she goes into a ton of detail about pins. Has anyone worn a pin on their blouse in 20 years?

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  • uccellina
  • 08-11-2017

A Dated White Feminist Manifesto

This book is probably most relevant to women 45+ who are middle-management or above, who are already in traditional corporate environments and at a certain level of income. The way it is written and the suggestions provided don't feel relevant to my life at all. In fact, it often made me feel bad about myself and my achievements.

The attitude to men and women is essentialising and dated. It is full of references to 'real women.' And it doesn't take into account the way in which younger men and most corporate environments today at least pay lip service to women's equality while allowing sexism to go underground or take on more insidious forms, making it far harder to address or work around.

The fundamental message of moving beyond what young women are taught about being 'a nice girl' is great. There are sprouts of really strong material around improving communication learned in childhood, definitely. But the structure of the book (a giant listicle) doesn't go in depth about any one, and there are better resources for this.

The text employs a critical tone throughout (here's everything you are doing wrong wrong wrong you silly girl *eyeroll*) that is not the most constructive investment of your time.

More dangerously, however, the negative, dismissive tone toward 'girls' reinforces negative stereotypes about women in the workplace that are hurtful to women as a whole, even if you've managed to separate yourself from the rest of the pack. Frankel says repeatedly that we have to accept the existence of double standards and that we need to work with them. Fine. But do we need to blithely treat 'girls' in the workplace as badly as men historically have? What about all the women who Frankel describes as being stuck in the 'women's ghetto' of secretaries and administrators? The attitude is 'are you a goddess who people will do things for, or are you the one who does things for the goddesses?' This is regressive and unconstructive. Some women might feel great about feeling like they have somehow escaped the fate of the helpers and then use those silly 'girls' to support their work without thinking twice about how destructive that structure is. I don't. Why not talk about how such women can move out of the cycle, rather than just advising avoiding getting sucked into it at any cost? And about things that senior women (and men!) can do to support women in those situations? What about people who have taken those kinds of jobs because there was rent to pay in the recession-era job market and they were promised opportunities for advancement that then never appeared, then found themselves stuck? How about providing a toolbox, rather than dismissing those people as failures doomed to serve others? Instead, Frankel gives the impression that she is self-obsessed and unethical, that she doesn't care if it's your head she uses as a step on her way to the top. It's all a game we need to play to win, after all.

Some of the advice assumes the reader is a relatively high earner and some is so painfully obvious that it's insulting. Frankel cites Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own as advice to get your own bank account and your own cushion of money so you don't have to stay in bad jobs, as well as a bunch of retirement planning suggestions. The advice is so obvious that it doesn't need to be written down. And it's great for those who earn a good income and are choosing between having a holiday or depositing savings, but what about those who are barely making rent every month, for whatever reason? This is a genuine opportunity for Frankel to help women who feel stuck to plan an escape or secure their futures. But top-earners only matter. Those silly girls in the women's ghetto can just take the hand they are dealt.

If you want a book packed with gems like 'get an expensive haircut' or 'hair should get shorter as you get older' or 'don't let your grey show' or 'don't get a visible tattoo' or 'buy this list of clothes and get it all tailored' then this is the book for you. Most of us have grown up having these ideas fed to us in the media or by our parents and don't need to buy a book to tell us this crap again. Frankel couches all these suggestions in terms of accepting and working with social expectations of women, saying that women are mistrusted if their appearance doesn't align with social expectations because it creates cognitive dissonance. We all know this. We can choose to comply or not. We can also consider ways of founding, building or changing our companies so that these expectations don't become prisons of gender stereotypes. What we don't need in 2017 is a corporate, literary version of Cosmopolitan magazine, telling women how to comply with men's expectations of women at work.

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  • Edel
  • 11-11-2019

Wouldn't recommend

I found this book so negative and old fashioned. if you want something modern and empowering download "You are a Badass" by Jen Sincero, or "Becoming" by Michelle O'Bama or "Girl Boss"

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  • 02-04-2020

would give minus stars if possible!

this was going well when talking about behaviours but at around point 100, she started talking about appearance. this was absolute out dated sexist nonsense. she actually advises not wearing any make up stops your career progression, as will grey hair. utterly disgusting.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 23-09-2021

Good tips but outdated on certain topics

Enjoyed listening to the book but some topics are outdated. Especially around grooming and dresscodes

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  • SEH
  • 05-04-2021

Quite old fashioned in a few respects

There’s some useful hard truths in this book about what people perceive, but I do worry it perpetuates the belief women need to change how they behave and appear rather than truly educating everyone to value difference in a modern, inclusive way. Definitely one to pick carefully which things you take forward.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 01-08-2023

Excellent book

highly recommend to everyone - learnt lots! excellent book, already got several copies for my friends

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  • Kayleigh
  • 12-05-2023

great advice in and out of the office

I was pleasantly surprised that I could apply a large majority of the advice to my day-to-day interactions. I don't even work in an office but this book is full of useful coaching tips to help assert yourself.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 29-03-2023

Give it a miss!

This book should not be sold under the pretense of being updated - it is completely out of date! I seriously do not even know who half the people are as they were probably in business in the 80’s.

I tried to listen but could not do it, it’s that bad….

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  • Adriana
  • 26-02-2023

Outdated narrow-minded book

This book is a long enumeration of so called mistakes that women do, each with a short description and advice, but not the format is the problem even though it gets tiring, but its content and way of expressing it. Most advice is outdated or applicable only to old-school american corporations. It doesn’t take into account cultural differences throughout the world or company cultures across different industries and it declares some things as facts without any proof. Many of the so called mistakes mentioned in the book can be done by all genders and many depend in fact on the personality and cultural background. I first felt like giving up reading the book from its first chapters but I continued to read it all by seeing it as a historical curiosity and laughing at the outdated stuff.

I find most outdated the overall premise of the book: that women should be more like power hungry american corporate men rather than meeting in the middle.

In the 100+ mistakes there are some that have some good advice, but most of the times it's either just very obvious or to concisely presented or I already knew it from other sources or experience,

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  • Melissa
  • 24-05-2022

Brilliant

This book is real eye opener and should be read by everyone in every business

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