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“When a man’s ambitious, it’s called drive. When a woman’s ambitious, it’s careerism and she’s a bitch.”
― Brimstone
― Brimstone
“The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem; rather, it is blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and equal citizenship.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?”
― Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?:
― Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?:
“The lines between being assertive or being aggressive, taking charge or being overly ambitious, and being nice or being ineffective are so blurred (by both sexes) that hitting the right note can feel impossible. In”
― The Confidence Myth: Why Women Undervalue Their Skills, and How to Get Over It
― The Confidence Myth: Why Women Undervalue Their Skills, and How to Get Over It
“High-profile women who seek to rise are routinely criticised as being "too ambitious". What does "too ambitious even mean? It seems to mean that any woman who is ambitious is unseemly, over-the-top, too nakedly self-interested to be trusted.
Men are often described as ambitious, ofcourse, but rarely with the qualifier "too". It seems primarily reserved for ambitious women.Sits not very surprising that even very successful women are often reluctant to describe themselves as ambitious.”
― How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
Men are often described as ambitious, ofcourse, but rarely with the qualifier "too". It seems primarily reserved for ambitious women.Sits not very surprising that even very successful women are often reluctant to describe themselves as ambitious.”
― How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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