Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women: Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change Them for Success at Work [Paperback]

Binnie Kafrissen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 8, 2000

Giving voice to the lives of all working women today, Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women moves beyond the superficial to address the deeper, psychological issues that lay the foundation for how women succeed or fail in the workplace.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Two Philadelphia psychologists type female business roles--without resorting to too many cliches or stereotypes--and set forth ways to change behavior and problem-solving abilities. Many of the six roles will sound familiar because they represent names we use daily to describe personalities: maverick, pleaser, caregiver, peacekeeper, survivor, and entrepreneur. Yet don't get too trapped by the individual definitions. Of tremendous help are, first, the authors' insistence that roles can be combined and, second, the very thorough elaboration of strength and weaknesses of each role. Where the mother-and-daughter authors excel is in providing the concrete steps of action for success, looking very practically at benefit-cost analyses of the role and pursuing strategies to enable change. Disguised case histories help bring the theories to life, while exercises and questions unearth the true sense of selves and redefinitions in business and personal worlds. Barbara Jacobs
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Anyone could benefit from such re-evaluation and increased insight, noncareer folk, and men too. -- The (Princeton) Times, September 30, 2000)

Explains the pluses and minuses of staying in these roles once one has left the family. -- Library Journal, November 1, 2000

May help you better understand why you act the way you do in your job. -- The Capital Times (Madison, WI), November 8, 2001

Where the authors excel is in providing the concrete steps of action for success. -- Booklist, October 1, 2000

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Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing (August 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891061460
• ISBN-13: 978-0891061465
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,299,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Book for Any Woman In the Workforce!!, September 2, 2000

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Dr. Suzan J. Smith (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women: Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change Them for Success at Work (Paperback)

If you are a woman in the work force, if you hire women, or if you are a woman who is thinking of entering the work force then this is the book for you. I am a doctor, a mother, and a wife. I was able to read this book over the weekend which is important with my busy schedule. This book was easy to understand as a lay person. The book really got me thinking about how I may come across to my staff and to my patients, what parts of my personality work and what parts I may need to change. I have enjoyed the exercises because I have become so much more aware of my thoughts and what I tell myself during the day about different things. I have become more aware of what I perceive and believe and what may actually be true. I have become more aware of other people's roles and personalities which has helped me understand where they might be coming from. I believe I will refer to this book often. I also know I will refer this book to others.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interviews with women from a variety of backgrounds, February 13, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women: Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change Them for Success at Work (Paperback)

Binnie Shusman Kafrissen and Fran Shusman successfully collaborate in Winning Roles For Career-Minded Women: Understanding The Roles We Learned As Girls And How To Change Them For Success At Work to reveal the underlying psychological issues that lay the foundation for women's success or failure in the workplace. The authors draw upon interviews with women from a variety of backgrounds to identify six roles women commonly assume in the workplace (Peacekeeper, Maverick, Pleaser, Caregiver, Survivor, Entrepreneur). By becoming aware of the family/social dynamics that give rise to these workplace roles, women can re-evaluate and discard distorted beliefs, recognize their strengths, and improve their situation in their own workplace. The informative text of Winning Roles For Career-Minded Women is enhanced with worksheets and exercises aiding readers to create their own individual, personalized, hands-on paths to change, drawing upon their own particular strengths to create a successful and fulfilling career in today's competitive, often discriminatory job and career environments.