Stacey Vanek Smith
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Anya's rigor, insight, story-telling chops, humor and reporting skills all come together in this fantastic book. She explores how COVID impacted children (and parents) and looks at what impacts this is likely to have in the years to come. Anya takes
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“The consequences of a lack of confidence show up in all kinds of ways, including how we value ourselves and our work. In study after study, men place a higher dollar value on their work than women do. In one study, men and women were presented with a task and then asked to pay themselves what they felt they deserved. Men paid themselves 63 percent more, on average, than women did and were significantly less productive.”
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
“Machiavelli, incidentally, saw support roles as a trap for an up-and-coming prince. “He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined…,” he writes (Chapter III, MPE). If you succeed at your job, the person you are assisting will never want to see you promoted: You’re too useful to them right where you are!”
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
“Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and coauthor (with Richard P. Halgin) of Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders”
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
― Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace
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