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Own It

The Power of Women at Work

by Sallie Krawcheck
Ellen Archer
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A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller, Own It is 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.
 
In fact, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the future, says former Wall Street powerhouse-turned-entrepreneur Sallie Krawcheck.  That’s because the business world is changing fast –driven largely by technology - and it’s changing in ways that give us more power and opportunities than ever…and even more than we yet realize.  
 
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 non-traditional 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.
 
This change is real, and it’s coming fast. It’s time to own it.

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  • Release date

    January 17, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9780735207240
      • File size: 211807 KB
      • Duration: 07:21:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Financial executive and entrepreneur Sally Krawcheck offers a finely drawn account of how women can thrive in the world of business and financial management. It's a compelling first-person discussion, not just because of the author's experience at major investment firms but also because of narrator Ellen Archer's performance. She perfectly captures the author's skill, confidence, and accessibility. With assertive clarity, she applies a deft blend of mature indignation and quiet determination to every sentence. And in the sections where the author shares her personal thoughts and vulnerabilities, her vocal style shifts toward the intimate without weakening Krawcheck's empowering message. Full of wisdom and tips for career women at all levels, this is an indispensable career guide for every woman who is serious about making a difference with her talents. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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