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Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong

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High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work—and how learning from them cleared the path to success.

Named by Fast Company as a “Best 10 Book You Want to Read This Year”
 
In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Best 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators across plenty of fields – from the humanities to finance to tech – reveal that they’re more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders because they learned from their mistakes, now not because they never made any. Interviewees include:
 

  • Cheryl Strayed, bestselling creator of Wild
  • Anna Holmes, founding editor of Jezebel.com
  • Kim Gordon, founding member of the band Sonic Youth
  • Joanna Barsch, Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company
  • Carol Dweck, Stanford psychology professor
  • Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling creator of Tale for the Time Being
  • And many more

For readers of Lean In and #Girlboss, Mistakes I Made for Work is ideal for millenials just starting their careers, for women searching for to advance at work, or for someone grappling with issues of perfectionism, and features fascinating and surprising anecdotes, in addition to tips for readers.

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