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

by Sarah Cooper

Overview

Ambitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. 

Chapters include, among others, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women,” "How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It," and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they're saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of "inaction items" designed to challenge women to be less challenging.

And, when all else fails, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact, it may even lead to a quick promotion!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449488918
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	10/30/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Sarah Cooper is a comedian, speaker, and author of bestselling books How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings and 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, both of which are in development as series for television, Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings Day-to-Day and Monthly Calendars.  Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings Monthly Planner. She built her comedy career in between working for companies like Yahoo! and Google, where she was fed free lunches and lots of material.

In April 2020, Sarah went viral with a video called “How to Medical,” in which she lip syncs Trump’s proposed COVID-19 cures of UV light and disinfectant, viewed over 25 million times across Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. She has since created dozens more Trump lip-syncs each garnering millions of views. She was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2020, was featured at this year’s Just for Laughs Festival and has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show, Ellen, and has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Washington Post, InStyle Magazine and countless others.

Sarah’s first comedy special, Everything’s Fine, is streaming on Netflix.
 
 

Editorial Reviews

08/06/2018
With chapters on “How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It” to “How to Bring Your True Self to Work and Then Hide It Completely,” this relentlessly tongue-in-cheek guide offers a playful look at the paradoxes and double standards with which many working women are intimately familiar. Cooper (100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings) transforms all-too-common workplace experiences into charts, graphs, and worksheets to mercilessly satirize double standards, and though some advice is groan inducing (“When collaborating with a man, type using only one finger. Skill and speed are very off-putting,” or “When all else fails, wear a mustache so everyone sees you as more man-like”), other recommendations nod at sharper, sometimes depressing, truths: “Pepper your emails with exclamation marks and emojis.... Your lack of efficient communication will make you seem more approachable.” In light of #MeToo and #TimesUp, the chapter on “How to Be Harassed Without Hurting His Career” is especially prickly: “Sexual harassment in the workplace is a serious offense and will not be tolerated, except in cases where the harasser was clearly joking and you need to relax.” Filled with sarcastic one-liners, Cooper’s pseudomanual is likely to illicit sad chuckles and knowing nods from women in white-collar professions, but while it outlines common workplace issues, it doesn’t offer much in the way of solutions to them. Color illus. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

" ... One of the hottest comics of the coronavirus era." (Los Angeles Times)

“Sarah Cooper Might Be the Best Trump Impressionist Ever." (The Daily Beast)

“Sarah Cooper is killing it with her Trump lip-syncs.” (Boing Boing)

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