Who Says It's a Man's World by Emily Bennington - Book review

Who Says It's a Man's World

The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination

By: Emily Bennington

Published: January 10, 2013
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0814431879
ISBN-13: 978-0814431870
Publisher: AMACOM












"Before you can decide what to do in your career, it's important to understand the kind of professional you want to be", writes career transition strategist Emily Bennington, in her straight talking and positive results oriented book Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination. The author describes how women can change their attitudes and behaviors to become successful leaders and top executives in the highly competitive corporate workplace.

Emily Bennington recognizes that the key principle, for women achieving top corporate roles, is to be an outstanding women first to have an outstanding corporate career. The author guides women through the challenging journey from entry level to the executive suite. Emily Bennington offers advice for women to identify their personal core values, and then coordinate them with their most important career development goals. Instead of an often counterproductive aggressive approach to career management, the author demonstrates how a more human and virtues based path is not only more rewarding in terms of visible career success, but leads to personal fulfillment as well.

Emily Bennington (photo left) understands that women must develop a reputation as a true professional to achieve the status of C-level executive. As a result, the author helps women to assess their personal and career goals, and establishes an alignment between the personal and professional aspirations. Since achieving success in the corporate environment is about working with people, Emily Bennington shares the concept of having a woman assess her own strengths and weaknesses, her core values and virtues, and creating her own personal and career development plan.

Emily Bennington shares the following concepts of achieving full alignment between personal and professional career goals. The career management principles are as follows:

Self awareness: Removing the three worst career killing false beliefs
* Social skills: Replacing self defeating competitiveness with direct and positive action
* Personal effectiveness: Six techniques to gain widespread respect in the corporate setting
* Team development: Replacing failed team strategies with ones that get results
* Leadership: Improving personal skills and leading without the title

For me, the power of the book is how Emily Bennington offers a comprehensive guide to career management, with the practical strategies and tools to put them into action. The author provides a real hands on workbook for women to take charge of their own careers to increase the likelihood of reaching a C-level position. Emily Bennington takes a personal development approach to career management and personal development. The result is a proactive guide for women to take positive steps to manage and control their own career paths.

Emily Bennington offers practical tools and techniques that empower women to take charge of their own corporate careers and destiny. The approach of focusing on changing behaviors, being a positive role model, aligning personal and leadership capabilities with organizational goals is a solid strategy for corporate career success. The book contains chapter action plans, as well as useful guides for handling those difficult corporate and interpersonal situations. To add depth to the book and its premises, the author shares interviews with highly successful women, who offer their personal insights to corporate career development.

I highly recommend the very hands on and empowering book Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination by Emily Bennington, to any women seeking a clear, concise, and no nonsense guide to achieving their goals of reaching the highest echelons of corporate management. This book provides the strategies, tools, and techniques needed to scale the walls of the corporation, and landing in the executive suite the right way.