What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career ASIN: 0071369961 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Business Week calls it right Comments: This book is truly "well-written and engaging" and "big-picture focus(ed)" as described by Toddi Gutner in her article in Business Week. Her review of the book peaked my interest and I found What Every Successful Woman Knows every bit as insightful as she stated. However, I believe that the suggestions offered, rather than being time consuming, are a challenge that will help me focus and, in the end, free up my schedule.

Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... but Gutsy Girls Do: 9 Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know ASIN: 0446672157 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: Don't read this book in public... Comments: ...you won't get a chance to read. Every woman who passes will want to stop and talk about it. This is the best book for a woman working in a man's world since "Games Mother Never Taught You". Kate White's breezy and readable text, chock full of real-life examples, makes her seem like a big sister who's finally telling you the good stuff. Juicy tidbits like "No, You Absolutely Do Not Have To Act Like A Man", "The Guy Secret of Never Taking Things Personally", and "The Hollywood Starlet Trick Even You Can Use" make this one of the few non-fiction books that has ever asserted its place on the top of my "to read" pile until it was finished

Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success That Women Need to Learn ASIN: 076790463X Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: "The Book of Life" - Don't leave home without it! Comments: This is the best book I have ever read for women in business! The ratio of women in the IT industry is 1:10 at best. Gails book offers practical advice on how to get ahead in this (and other) male dominated industries using situations women encounter every day. I run a sales team which is has a 50/50 gender ratio. I have recommended that the females in my sales team to read this book so they can balance the dominance battle in the sales arena. For example: (1) women don't need to wait to have ALL the facts before they speak! (2) state your achievements (3) dress for success ... and the list goes on and on. I absolutely agree with Gail's position that women are not in star positions because they haven't yet learned how to play the game. This business woman's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" encyclopedia has helped me to understand and work with a myriad of situations which have positively advanced my career ... let it do the same for yours!

Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business ASIN: 0452270804 Customer's Rating: 5 Summary: If You Want to Be a Successful Businesswoman, Read This! Comments: This book was recommended to me during my first year of MBA school when I was trying to understand the men I was forced to work with and their seemingly impossible behavior. It unravels the game of office politics and sets forth an achievable and sensible set of behaviors to guide all working women on the path to success. Now after having acheived my second promotion in two years post-MBA working in a male-dominated industry, I credit much of my success to playing by the rules of the game of business as set forth in this book (being an avid golfer doesn't hurt, either!) The rules are designed by men and based on the rules of their childhood games, rather than ours. Neither way is better, it's just different, and in order to survive in the business world and be successful it is imperative that women understand the rules of the game in order to be effective players. Your mother doesn't teach you these rules, neither do MBA professors nor your male colleagues. You must get this valuable information from somewhere, and this book is an excellent resource. This book is my work "bible" and I find myself referring to it often depending upon the particular work challenge I'm facing at the time. Kudos to Pat Heim. No working woman who aspires to be successful in business should be without this valuable and insightful guidebook to a man's world.