In the Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances

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In the Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances
by Pat Heim, Susan Murphy, Susan K. Golant

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Advocates appeasement to irrationality
  I am sorely disappointed by this book. Instead of addressing the root cause of women who traditionally cannot stand having other women succeed and get ahead, this book promotes appeasement to that irrationality. It is really a collection of tactics to maneuver around bad situations caused by women who get difficult around members of the same sex who are more powerful, more confident, or more successful.
  But that's not how it should be. If a woman gets a well-deserved promotion and her female coworkers... more info

• A mix of good advice and poor excuses
  This book did have some useful information about the sociocultural reasons behind women's sabotage of one another in the workplace. Much of this information could also be applied outside the workplace. However, I would have liked to see something about how an atypical woman -- one who hasn't been overly socialized to the feminine role -- can deal with those women who are more typically acculturated. I am thankfully now self-employed, but I had problems with other women in past workplaces that I didn't... more info

• Interesting reading
  This book was pretty good. The first part validated what I pretty much figured out for myself the hard way. At least with the knowledge you get from this book that this type of behavior and attitude is universal among women everywhere and is "normal," you can deal with it more constructively or let it go more easily instead of dwelling on it. I did enjoy reading the first part of the book - probably 3/4 of the book was helpful because it validates what you know or can sense about what is going on around... more info

• Wishing everyone (men and women) would read this!
  I have struggled my entire life in relationships with women. This book opened my eyes.

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