TALKING FROM 9 TO 5: WOMEN AND MEN AT WORK by Tannen, Deborah - 2001

William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...Y ou averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeti ng with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing... HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD? In her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, D eborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace--where the ways in which men and women communicate can deter mine who gets heard, who gets ahead, and what gets done. An instant classic, Talking From 9 to 5 brilliantly explains women's and men's conversational rituals--and the language barriers we unintentionally erect in the business world. It is a unique and invaluable guide to recognizing the verbal power games and miscommunications that cause good work to be underappreciated or go unnoticed--an essential tool for promoting more positive and productive professional relationships among men and women.