Mistakes I Made at Work
Author: Bacal, Jessica
ISBN: 9780142180570
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jun 2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
In Mistakes I Made at Work, 25 high-achieving and influential women across a variety of fields share their worst on-the-job moments, and how they used those missteps as learning experiences to build a successful career.
High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work-and how learning from them paved the way to success.
Named by Fast Company as a "Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year"
In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators across a variety of fields - from the arts to finance to tech - reveal that they're more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders because they learned from their mistakes, not because they never made any. Interviewees include-
ISBN: 9780142180570
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jun 2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
In Mistakes I Made at Work, 25 high-achieving and influential women across a variety of fields share their worst on-the-job moments, and how they used those missteps as learning experiences to build a successful career.
High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work-and how learning from them paved the way to success.
Named by Fast Company as a "Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year"
In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators across a variety of fields - from the arts to finance to tech - reveal that they're more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders because they learned from their mistakes, not because they never made any. Interviewees include-
- Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author 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 author of Tale for the Time Being
- And many more
