Office Politics : The Women's Guide to Beat the System and Gain Financial Success
"...The woman who can, will emerge a wiser, stronger, more savvy competitor. It is a book whose time has come..."   --Seattle Times, Business Monday 10/16/95This book, as the author warns on the cover, is not for the fainthearted! Steele's powerfully honest portrayal of how corporations actually see women is based on his 30 years of experience as an executive and consultant at numerous Fortune 1000 companies. Most working women realize that men and ambitious women are willing to fight to get what they want. Steele tells a woman how, when, who, and why she must fight (play office politics) to get what she wants instead of what they offer. Everything is based on Steele's fundamental belief: Money dictates each and every human being's future. Without money, a woman is powerless. The counsel he offers is blunt. His tactics are practical. The overall strategy is to help an individual become financially secure by beating the system. Steele was shocked as his only child, a daughter, grew. At every turn, society, school, church attempted to make her into "a polite domestic." Thus, the overall tone of the book feels like a training manual for female guerrillas who are outnumbered eight to one in the corporate management war. At the end, Steele resorts to a variation of Tough Love. He exposes, then ravages, cultural myths and fairy tales that women, and men, have bought into. The purpose? So that a woman can make realistic choices about her career path and life's goals. Bravo! --Camille McElroy,Boston Globe, 1/16/95