Top 5 Reasons to Buy The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch)

1. You just got promoted.
Yikes! Nobody ever taught you to be a manager. Your role models have been less than fabulous and you want to be better. We teach you how to be more mentor than manager. We show you how to be firm but fair. Armed with our book, you will learn how to get the best out of your employees.

2. Most management books put you to sleep.
No jargon and no need for an MBA. The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss Without Being a Bitch is a fun read that offers information without intimidation and includes all the advice you need to learn to lead, inspire and motivate. We include quizzes, tips, checklists and fun sidebars such as "Celluloid Bitches," and "The Girl's Guide to Gossip" throughout.

3. Your manager is crazy.
You're not alone. In our "Good Witch/Big Bitch" boxes we share both the horrible and the heroic--stories from women from around the country who have seen it all and learned their lessons.

4. You're not a manager…yet!
Unlike most management books we speak to both leaders and the led. We offer tips and suggestions for dealing with issues such as micromanagement, taking credit for ideas, managing up to get the promotion, office politics and taking responsibility for mistakes.

5. Don't take just our word for it....
Good management is a life-long pursuit. We'd be foolish to believe we know it all, so to help us fill in the blanks we got on the phone with women from all over the country. We include interviews with coaches, human resource directors, other writers, supervisors, the supervised, mediators, and social workers to get their take on the challenges and opportunities of being the chick-in-charge.

Book Description

So, you finally got that promotion. You’re the boss now. The supervisor. The manager. The captain. The taskmaster. Those days of taking orders, running errands, and clock-watching are over. As exciting as all this might seem, once the rush of the promotion is over, you might be scratching your head wondering exactly what to do. Being the boss is never easy, but it's twice as hard for a woman. It seems like there's no middle ground. Either you're the dragon lady who rules with an iron fist or the mousey girl who gets drowned out at every meeting. When a woman wields authority and dares to make tough decisions, how often is the "B-word" bandied about by her employees? How can she strike that balance between pushover and dictator?

Fear not. You can do the job. All you need is a little helpful advice to send you on your way. Whether you supervise two as a shift manager or lord over an entire corporate empire, Caitlin Friedman and Kim Yorio will show you how to step gracefully into your new position of power. They’ll teach you how to motivate your team without alienating them, how to delegate without feeling guilty, how to deal with office politics and how to handle evaluations, promotions, and even firings. And for those of you who are already running the show, they can help you become the mentor your employees deserve.

Inside, there are self-assessment questionnaires to help you find out where you land on the bitch or wimp scale; interviews with prominent female bosses, human-resources directors, and therapists; and advice from a whole host of experts. In addition, there are funny and informative checklists and tips to make sure you’re the Good Witch around the office and not the Big Bitch. And, most important, Caitlin and Kim will teach you the secrets to owning your role and loving it. You’ve earned your promotion, so enjoy it!

Customer Reviews:

A life-saver!.......2007-10-04

Several months ago I found myself a newly promoted manager overseeing several of my former peers. Though thrilled at the promotion, I had no idea how difficult the transition would be. I stumbled upon The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a [...]), and it was like reading the handbook on how to navigate through my exact situation. From employee evaluations to office politics, it covers every aspect of the very delicate (and often sticky) manager-employee relationship. Coupled with its light and pleasant tone, this book was an absolute life-saver for me. It helped me get perspective and see the humor in most (if not all) situations. Definitely a must-have for every girl trying to find her way through the labyrinth that is the business world.

Great Advice!.......2007-09-06

Awesome book! I also recommend another book that I love - How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips to Make Every Man Fall in Love with You and Every Woman Envy You

Easy Read.......2007-07-30

I liked this book as it was easy to read and gain tips and pointers. Time is always a factor in my life and I liked this book as it got to the point. It has helped me deal with some issues I was having at work as a manager. I recommend it if you are wanting to improve yourself as a manager.

Provocative, powerful, practical.......2007-07-10

There is still, today, a public distaste for ambitious women: ambitious men are "go-getters"; ambitious women (esp. bosses) are "bitches". The Girl's Guide is loaded with practical advice and stories from the trenches reassuring accomplished women who love their work with a grand passion that they are not lone chimeras (a.k.a. "bitches"); that they can inspire, motivate, and lead--including making hard choices--with integrity, elegance, and grace, all the while keeping their eye on profitability and simultaneously treating others with decency and respect. Dr. Debra Condren, founder, Women's Business Alliance; author: amBITCHous: (def.) A Woman Who: 1. Makes more money 2. has more power 3. gets the recognition she deserves 4. has the determination to go after her dreams and

A little empowerring/A little insulting.......2007-06-28

I'm on the fence about this one, there are times when I felt like putting it down and others when I just let go and soaked in the advice.

Average customer rating: Ghastly do not buy this book Frustrating, Hard to Understand horrifying No pleasure read

A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life Jon Katz Manufacturer: Villard ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Dogs | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books Essays | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books Animal Behavior & Communication | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books Similar Items: A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava A Three Dog Life ASIN: 140006189X Release Date: 2006-09-26

Book Description

“People who love dogs often talk about a ‘lifetime’ dog. I’d heard the phrase a dozen times before I came to recognize its significance. Lifetime dogs are dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable ways.”–Jon Katz

In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collie–intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable.

From the moment Katz and Orson meet, when the dog springs from his traveling crate at Newark airport and panics the baggage claim area, their relationship is deep, stormy, and loving. At two years old, Katz’s new companion is a great herder of school buses, a scholar of refrigerators, but a dud at herding sheep. Everything Katz attempts– obedience training, herding instruction, a new name, acupuncture, herb and alternative therapies–helps a little but not enough, and not for long. “Like all border collies and many dogs,” Katz writes, “he needed work. I didn’t realize for some time I was the work Orson would find.”
While Katz is trying to help his dog, Orson is helping him, shepherding him toward a new life on a two-hundred-year-old hillside farm in upstate New York. There, aided by good neighbors and a tolerant wife, hip-deep in sheep, chickens, donkeys, and more dogs, the man and his canine companion explore meadows, woods, and even stars, wade through snow, bask by a roaring wood stove, and struggle to keep faith with each other. There, with deep love, each embraces his unfolding destiny.

A Good Dog is a book to savor. Just as Orson was the author’s lifetime dog, his story is a lifetime treasure–poignant, timeless, and powerful.

Customer Reviews:

Ghastly.......2007-10-14

This author is the literary equivalent of a puppy miller - making money over the bodies of his dogs.

do not buy this book.......2007-10-14

As the owner of two herding dogs, I know first hand how hard it is to train them well and keep them out of trouble. I thoroughly enjoyed the first 3/4 of this book, and for that I will give it two stars. But what a waste of a vacation day I felt I spent reading this when I got to the end of the story. Poor Orson. How I wished he would have been retired to a home that knew the value of a leash, a dog run, and a crate. I will not be buying any other books from this author.

Frustrating, Hard to Understand.......2007-10-10

The first few pages were great - a story about an intelligent dog with a mind of its own, out chasing school buses, corralling skate-boarders and others, and protected by an owner who had bonded with him. Orson also learned to open the refrigerator, eat whatever he wanted, and then hide the packaging.

But Orson didn't fit in with urban N.J., leading its owner to buy a small farm in N.Y. and get over his own "mid-life" crisis. Unfortunately, Orson became less and less predictable, and more and more likely to nip at people. So Katz (owner and author) took Orson to the vet ($1,000 worth of tests with no result, then to an animal talker, and finally a shaman. Some improvement came from acupuncture (Orson had been hit by a car during his early days in N.J.), but the biggest improvement came when Katz bought an ATV to help his own mobility limitations due to injured legs.

Sadly, though, Orson again starts nipping, and even draws blood in instances when there was no known reason for him to. Katz, worried about his liability, decides to have Orson put to sleep.

So was Katz really bonded to Orson, or just decide he was a nuisance? Why didn't he put the dog away when people were around, and/or put up "Beware of the Dog" signs?

Definitely not the happy man-dog story I was looking forward to!

horrifying.......2007-10-08

When I was given this book, I had no idea what it was about. Once I learned, I was almost sick to my stomach. Incredible to me that someone could write a "dog love story" that ends in the cruelest, most heartless betrayal imaginable. There is no justifying his action. Simply appalling. Be warned this book is no sweet story, but a frightening tale of justification.

No pleasure read.......2007-10-07

First I must say that many reviewers were too harsh on Katz. The problem was that Katz made a name for himself writing about dogs on his Bedlam Farm and one of the protagonists pays with his life in this book. Readers were expecting another easy read about happy dogs in New York.

Katz is not a dog expert nor a dog trainer. He simply is a good writer who writes about his dogs and his farm. His temperament is better suited for more docile breeds like retrievers and Labradors. A border collie and Katz are just a volatile mix. Collies need constant work and attention and are by nature restless. They need a steady job, they need constant life around them to be happy dogs.

Katz is a good writer and this book reads well. What bothered me were the last 30 pages; after the dog is euthenized it seemed the book lingered when it should have ended with Orson's last heartbeat. He spent the remaining pages defending his position to put his dog down. After hollistic treatments, visits to a shaman and accupuncture, he never once took the dog to a certified dog behaviorist? That seemed odd, and that is why I had little compassion for Katz. Orson deserved more.

Katz is of the belief that dogs must be trained, must not be dangerous and should not be treated as humans. If a dog bites or attacks, its fate is doomed. Many urbanites will agree with that. Orson was one such doomed canine, although I don't understand why he couldn't find a home for him (despite his feelings that he can't "recycle" pets with behaviorial problems) when there surely could have been people willing to take the dog in? With all his fame and website there were no takers? He put the dog down without telling anyone but his own veterinarian, and now he has to pay with his decision and spend more time explaining his decision. Had he been a true lover of Orson, he could have easily found a home for Orson that didn't have the stimuli that triggered his biting attacks. He needed a female to tend to his spirit. Instead Orson was paired with an impatient, demanding, overweight middle-aged man.

This was my first book by Katz and it will be my last. He can write all he wants to about dogs but the image I have is of his "good dog" Orson dying in his arms. Orson was a good dog. It was the owner who was bad and failed him. I don't understand how Amazon could recommend this book along with the more upbeat "Marley and Me" by John Grogan.

Average customer rating: A Jewel of a book.... AWESOME Path to Genuine Success 17 Rules for a better way to live Rules To Live By... 1 By 1, Day By Day

A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By Og Mandino Manufacturer: Bantam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Personal Transformation | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books Success | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books General | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books Healthy Living | Personal Health | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books | Aesthetics | Analytic Philosophy | Ancient | Consciousness & Thought | Criticism | Eastern | Epistemology | Ethics & Morality | Free Will & Determinism | General | Good & Evil | Greek & Roman | History & Surveys | History, 17th & 18th Century | Islamic | Logic & Language | Medieval Thought | Metaphysics | Methodology | Modern | Modern Renaissance | Movements | Ontology | Philosophy of Religion | Political | Reference | Religious | Science | Social Philosophy | Theism Inspirational | Spirituality | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books Mandino, Og | ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books General | Health, Mind & Body | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Healthy Living | Personal Health | Health, Mind & Body | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Personal Transformation | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Success | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books ( M ) | Authors, A-Z | Religion & Spirituality | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books | Maxwell, John C. | McDowell, Josh | Merton, Thomas Inspirational | Spirituality | Religion & Spirituality | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Similar Items: The Greatest Salesman in the World The Choice The Greatest Salesman in the World: Part II The End of the Story The Greatest Secret in the World The Greatest Miracle in the World ASIN: 0553286749 Release Date: 1990-12-01

Customer Reviews:

A Jewel of a book...........2007-07-23

I've come across this Jewel of a book after reading "The Greatest Salesman in the World" This little handbook of rules to live by is the only set of rules you will ever need to lead a wonderful life. I laughed and cried while reading because his writings ring so true. How fortunate of me to have come across such a wonderful little book that can transform anyone's life for the better. Read it, enjoy it, apply it to your life and enjoy all that life has to offer you.

AWESOME.......2007-03-09

Og Mandino is the greatest inspirational writer of our time! This book is just another example of what a fine human being he was! I just hope there's someone out there to continue his legacy. A really great read!

Path to Genuine Success.......2006-07-22

I have read everyone of Og Mandinos Books and all I can say is that he writes with brilliance, clarity, enthusiasm, and spirit. You can never go wrong with any of his books. He points out the path to success and motivates the spirit within to achieve all that we as human beings are capable. He helped me to tap into my innate genuis and create a life of prosperity and creativity. If you havent raed his books, start now and your journey of the spirit will begin. He was a born writer and even after his passing continues to have a great influence on many people old and young. He truly lived a purposeful and divine life. Go buy all his books and enjoy the growth and enlightenment. After that Buy my Book " Your daily Walk with the Great Minds of the Past and Present". Enjoy and rememeber you are capable of great things in your life.

17 Rules for a better way to live.......2002-01-23

Illustrative with many of his inspiring and life changing stories, Og Mandino tells us in this book, that "we have forgotten one of the basic facts of life. When we were given dominion over this world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. We are our own navigators. It was never God's intention to chart a map for each of us." "Life is a game" he also says, "it's spiritual, mysterious and precious." But in order to play the game you have to know the rules.
Seventeen rules (to be exact) to live by in order to lead a better way to live.
This book can easily be read in one afternoon. As you start the book you will be invited by the author to sit down and relax in his company as he takes on the role of a racconteur, as only Og Mandino does best.

Rules To Live By... 1 By 1, Day By Day.......2001-09-26

This is yet another great book by Mandino. I enjoyed this book because it stated "each rule to live by for a better way to live" and was expressed in a way that could be easily understood. I copied these "17 Rules To Live By" and I keep them easily accesible- as I refer to them often. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs someone "to grab their hand and walk with them through life on a daily basis". I have read several books by Og Mandino and have come to the following conclusion... there is no one else in the world better to walk with me in my journeys through life; than my great friend, Og.

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