Synopses & Reviews
The co-founder of HGTV shows how women can achieve their career goals using techniques of gamesmanship.
New Rules of the Game provides insights, tips and direction to women in business, based on experiences from author and HGTV co-founder Susan Packard's own 30 year career, along with a dozen other prominent executives. Packard advocates for a revolutionary new perspective for businesswomen, which she calls gamesmanship" --- a strategic way of thinking that cultivates creativity, focus, optimism, teamwork, and competitiveness. These strategies are seen in the gaming and sports worlds and often among men, but women can utilize these skills as well to learn to:
- compete outwardly instead of inwardly
- take loss in stride
- provide the emotional distance necessary to succeed at work
- think tactically
- step up with more grit to get the next win
- level the playing field by understanding how male colleagues think and win at work, and
- add excitement to their careers.
Review
"The author examines the skills, behaviors and strategies of gamesmanship in corporate settings, including mastering the brinksmanship to close or walk away from a deal, building rapport with your colleagues and keeping your cool...Packard provides useful examples from her experiences and those of other female executives. Her concise book offers ways to level the playing field. If winning were the only theme, the books appeal would be limited, but Packard presents her ideas in the context of treating people, including competitors, fairly and respectfully. Great leaders, she writes, demonstrate good sportsmanship whether they win or lose, have the grit to move on from mistakes and defeats, and build a team with shared values. A straightforward guide to success that deserves a prime spot on the bookshelves of career women aspiring to reach the highest corporate ranks."
—Kirkus Reviews
“When I read Susan Packards Ten Rules of Gamesmanship, I found many relatable truths. In our family we did not list them as ‘rules but we learned by my mothers example. Difficult balancing acts, like being gracious while staying cool, and showing grit while valuing being likeable to others, and if you fail, learn from it and try again. I live many of Packards ‘rules of gamesmanship through my mothers wise examples.”
—Rachael Ray
“Finding comfort competing, the importance of practicing many roles on a team, and the key role that resilience plays - these define a winning spirit. Susans book will be extremely useful to all women navigating career choices”
—Margo Georgiadis, President, Americas, Google
“Susan Packard shares a successful formula for all in her new book.”
—Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever, Inc., a Global Fortune 500 Company
“Packards New Rules of the Game gives practical insight that we can all learn from.”
—Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mightybell, cofounder of www.LeanIn.org
“Susans strength and skill shine through in New Rules of the Game. This book provides actionable steps for success in business.”
—David Zaslav, President and CEO, Discovery Communications
“The insights on gamesmanship in Susan Packards book will better enable women, and men, to fulfill their potential every day.”
—John Bryant, CEO, Kellogg, a Fortune 500 Company
“With style thats observant, insightful and funny, Packard teaches the rules and the language of winners.”
—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post
“Theres no question that business advancement requires passion and a spirit of competition, as well as collaboration. How women can express this successfully is captured well in Susan Packards New Rules of the Game.”
—Susan Cameron, CEO, Reynolds American, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company
“This book could become a new guide for women in business, helping any one of you at home work your way to the top of your industry.”
—Kristin Farley, ABC-News
Synopsis
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace.
Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate America they don't share half of the power. Only four of the
Fortune500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been in the last few years that even half of the
Fortune500 companies have more than one female officer.
A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to play the game of business.
Throughout her career in the super-competitive, male-dominated media industry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerful executives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feel lost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a game without knowing the directions. In this book, she reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage.
Men know the rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career. Sharing with humor and candor her years of lessons from corporate life, Gail Evans gives readers practical tools for making the right decisions at work. Among the rules you will learn are:
How to Keep Score at Work
When to Take a Risk
How to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome
Ten Vocabulary Words That Mean Different Things to Men and Women
Why Men Can be Ugly, and You Can't
When to Quit Your Job
From the Hardcover edition."
About the Author
An executive vice president at CNN, Gail Evans oversees the network's talk shows (Burden of Proof, CNN & Co, Crossfire, Both Sides with Jesse Jackson, Evans & Novak, Capital Gang, and Talk Back Live), the booking and research department, and recruiting and talent development. Evans's programs have received numerous awards, including a Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television; the Breakthrough Award for Women, Men, and Media; and several Emmy nominations. She lives in Atlanta.