About the Author
Lois P. Frankel holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Southern California. She used to work in human resources at a Fortune 10 oil company. She is currently the president of Corporate Coaching International and a sought-after speaker. Her works include Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner show more Office, Nice Girls Don't Get Rich, and See Jane Lead. She is the founder of MOSTE: Motivating Our Students Through Experience, which is a non-profit organization that provides mentors and scholarships to at-risk, inner-city middle school girls. She received Maybelline's Women of Achievement award for her work empowering girls through education. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Lois P. Frankel
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers (2004) 782 copies, 16 reviews
Nice Girls Just Don't Get It: 99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the Life You Want (2011) 45 copies
Nice Girls Still Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (2014) 37 copies
Overcoming Your Strengths: 8 Reasons Why Successful People Derail and How to Get Back on Track (1997) 29 copies
Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom: Witty, Wicked, and Wise Reflections on Well-Lived Lives (2017) 13 copies
Jump-Start Your Career: How the "Strengths" That Got You Where You Are Today Can Hold You Back Tomorrow (1998) 5 copies
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- Dr. Lois P. Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, is a bestselling author, executive coach, and an internationally-recognized expert in the field of leadership development for women. She has appeared on Larry King Live, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Today Show, CNBC, and PBS to discuss her New York Times bestselling books, Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, and Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It. Her other books include See Jane Lead and Stop Sabotaging Your Career. Alex Trebek even asked the question on Jeopardy, “This is the prime piece of business real estate that nice girls don’t get.”
Her work as a public speaker, consultant, and author has brought Dr. Frankel to countries around the globe and provided her with the privilege of serving diverse clients such as The Walt Disney Company, Amgen, The World Bank, The Indonesia Women’s Leadership Summit, Santos Energy, Miller Brewing Company, Australian Institute of Management, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Lockheed Martin, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, ARCO Indonesia, Ernst & Young, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Belgium Women’s Conference, Morgan Stanley, AlliedSignal Aerospace, BP, Warner Bros., Australia Human Resources Institute, and Northrop Grumman. She also provides pro bono consultation and workshops to nonprofit community agencies.
Dr. Frankel earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Phillips Graduate Institute. Although she is proud of her many accomplishments, none so much as founding two nonprofit organizations, MOSTE: Motivating Our Students through Experience and Bloom Again Foundation: Sowing Seeds of Health and Hope. Her work with women and girls was recognized through Maybelline New York’s “Empowerment through Education” award, the Los Angeles County’s Woman of the Year Award in business and industry, and a Presidential Medal from SUNY Oswego.
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (A NICE GIRLS Book) by Lois P. Frankel
Here's the thing about this book. It has a lot of great tips—for both men and women—on how to behave in the workplace. I disagreed with a couple of them, but this book is generally quite useful.
But I didn't like the "nice girls" theme. Maybe I was just lucky as a kid, but I was not raised to be a "nice girl." I wasn't taught to be quiet, to avoid being too aggressive, or to be considerate to others at my own expense. The only "you're a girl and this is the way things are" instruction I show more got was that fun female anatomy stuff. Sure, I have some nice-girl qualities—a lot more than I thought I did before reading this book—but those are personality facets, not learned behaviors. It irritated me that Frankel repeatedly lumps all women into the nice-girl category. Probably because I haven't overcome all of my tomboyishness yet, and I still recoil sometimes when I'm associated with anything typically girly. (And I kind of feel like Frankel is discouraging this aim I've had since I started working to embrace being a woman rather than disassociating myself from all girly tendencies, because apparently, to succeed in today's business world, you have to do it by exhibiting manly qualities.)
There's another reason I don't think I was quite the right audience for this book, but I'd be breaking a couple of Frankel's guidelines if I talked about them here. See, I learned stuff from this book. show less
But I didn't like the "nice girls" theme. Maybe I was just lucky as a kid, but I was not raised to be a "nice girl." I wasn't taught to be quiet, to avoid being too aggressive, or to be considerate to others at my own expense. The only "you're a girl and this is the way things are" instruction I show more got was that fun female anatomy stuff. Sure, I have some nice-girl qualities—a lot more than I thought I did before reading this book—but those are personality facets, not learned behaviors. It irritated me that Frankel repeatedly lumps all women into the nice-girl category. Probably because I haven't overcome all of my tomboyishness yet, and I still recoil sometimes when I'm associated with anything typically girly. (And I kind of feel like Frankel is discouraging this aim I've had since I started working to embrace being a woman rather than disassociating myself from all girly tendencies, because apparently, to succeed in today's business world, you have to do it by exhibiting manly qualities.)
There's another reason I don't think I was quite the right audience for this book, but I'd be breaking a couple of Frankel's guidelines if I talked about them here. See, I learned stuff from this book. show less
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
Very useful, not because any piece of advice is mind blowing, but because it lists a variety of acceptable habits in one place and vehemently supports why they are acceptable (say no to taking notes or making coffee more than once, don't bring in baked goods for fun, dress the part, become comfortable with silences, don't apologize, don't over-explain, don't work too hard, ask forgiveness rather than permission, and so on). This book affirms tactics to be taken seriously as a competent show more employee and manager/leader and gives readers license to use them; it's nothing shockingly new. It seems to be the sort of book that would be worth rereading every 6 or 12 months. Very quick to get through, easy to read, and doesn't suffer from useless quizzes or pompous/grandiose writing. It does, however, have an embarrassing title. show less
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
I was about to pass this book up because the title didn't catch my attention. As I looked at the back cover,I thought to myself, "I do plenty of things to further my career, I don't need to look at this book!" Now that I've finished reading the book, I am so glad I gave this book a chance.It helped me to see how women, myself included, act in certain ways which ultimately prevents us from furthering their career or obtaining their career goals. Frankel starts in chapter one by noting that show more although this book lists 101 mistakes that women make in reference to their career,all women will not make all the mistakes listed in the book. After stating this fact, Frankel then presents a self-assessment chart for the reader to fill out to determine where she needs the most work to change her female behavior. Since each part of the assessment focuses on a particular weakness,each chapter following the assessment focuses on how women play the game, act, think, market,sound,look and respond. When using describing female behavior, Frankel means the behavior that girls have been taught through society as well as in their own childhoods.She feels that women have been taught to be less outspoken, to be nurturers and providers, and to cater to their male co-workers. For example, I will admit that at my job, I sometimes do the work that is assigned to others. This is because I feel if I don't do it, it won't get done; Frankel label this behavior as mistake #4: Doing the work of Others.According to the book, I can resolve this problem by only doing what I am assigned to do and if I feel guilty for saying no to others,use self-talk to replace feeling guilty. What I like most about the book is that she provides the mistake on one page and then on the opposite page, she provides coaching tips. Since she works as an executive coach, she provides lots of tips. She also provides real like experience that she had with clients in reference to each mistake and discusses the problem that each women faced as well as how with her help, they were able to come up with a solution. Overall, I feel that this is a great book for any women whether she is woman at a Fortune 500 company or at Burger King. If we as women are to be more active in the business women, we need to learn rules so we know how to play the game. Also, we need to realize that although our past behavior worked for us at one time, in order to fully obtain our career goals, we need to learn to not cater to other but instead, we need to focus on the the highest level of success possible. show less
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
I was about to pass this book up because the title didn't catch my attention. As I looked at the back cover,I thought to myself, "I do plenty of things to further my career, I don't need to look at this book!" Now that I've finished reading the book, I am so glad I gave this book a chance.It helped me to see how women, myself included, act in certain ways which ultimately prevents us from furthering their career or obtaining their career goals. Frankel starts in chapter one by noting that show more although this book lists 101 mistakes that women make in reference to their career,all women will not make all the mistakes listed in the book. After stating this fact, Frankel then presents a self-assessment chart for the reader to fill out to determine where she needs the most work to change her female behavior. Since each part of the assessment focuses on a particular weakness,each chapter following the assessment focuses on how women play the game, act, think, market,sound,look and respond. When using describing female behavior, Frankel means the behavior that girls have been taught through society as well as in their own childhoods.She feels that women have been taught to be less outspoken, to be nurturers and providers, and to cater to their male co-workers. For example, I will admit that at my job, I sometimes do the work that is assigned to others. This is because I feel if I don't do it, it won't get done; Frankel label this behavior as mistake #4: Doing the work of Others.According to the book, I can resolve this problem by only doing what I am assigned to do and if I feel guilty for saying no to others,use self-talk to replace feeling guilty. What I like most about the book is that she provides the mistake on one page and then on the opposite page, she provides coaching tips. Since she works as an executive coach, she provides lots of tips. She also provides real like experience that she had with clients in reference to each mistake and discusses the problem that each women faced as well as how with her help, they were able to come up with a solution. Overall, I feel that this is a great book for any women whether she is woman at a Fortune 500 company or at Burger King. If we as women are to be more active in the business women, we need to learn rules so we know how to play the game. Also, we need to realize that although our past behavior worked for us at one time, in order to fully obtain our career goals, we need to learn to not cater to other but instead, we need to focus on the the highest level of success possible. show less
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