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“You may be bipolar, suffer from depression, or anxiety, or any number of other mental health issues. Your company absolutely supports you focusing on these issues and getting the help you need as long as it never comes up at work and you get all of your work done on time.”

Work Mental Health

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

“How much should you smile during your job interview? The answer is: not too much and definitely not too little. Try practicing a smile that’s somewhere in between, even if it makes you look like you’re having a stroke. This is your best option.”

Work Gender Stereotypes

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

“Scale the heights of your career and break that glass ceiling, but do it very quietly and gingerly, and be sure to make a man think he did it for you.”

Humor Work Gender

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

“When hiring, we look at a variety of factors, including education, experience, and skills. The biggest factor by far, though, is a candidate’s ability to fit in with our existing culture. Some might say this is why we seem to only hire the same type of people, but who knows?”

Diversity Hiring

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

“If you have the choice between saving a man’s ego or saving his life, trust me. Save his ego. He’ll thank you for it later. I mean, he won’t because he’ll be dead, but you know what I mean.”

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

“When describing your accomplishments, you need to strike a balance between tooting your own horn and hiding your horn behind the shed. This is difficult because if you don’t take enough credit you won’t seem qualified, but if you take too much credit you’ll seem arrogant. Good luck with that.”

Impossible Standards

Book:How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Source: How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women