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In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were "playing small" in their lives and careers, were frustrated by it, and wanted to "play bigger." She has devised a proven way for them to achieve their dreams by playing big from the inside out. Mohr’s work helping women play bigger has earned acclaim from the likes of Maria Shriver and Jillian Michaels, and has been featured on the Today show, CNN, and a host of other media outlets.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In gave many women new awareness about what kinds of changes they need to make to become more successful; yet most women need help implementing them. In the tradition of Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly, Playing Big provides real, practical tools to help women quiet self-doubt, identify their callings, “unhook” from praise and criticism, unlearn counterproductive good girl habits, and begin taking bold action.
While not all women aspire to end up in the corner office, every woman aspires to something. Playing Big fills a major gap among women’s career books; it isn’t just for corporate women. The book offers tools to help every woman play bigger—whether she’s an executive, community volunteer, artist, or stay-at-home mom.
Thousands of women across the country have been transformed by Mohr’s program, and now this book makes the ideas and practices available to everyone who is ready to play big.
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- ISBN: 9780698162174
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- ISBN: 9780698162174
- File size: 963 KB
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- English
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October 15, 2014
As women hoping to improve our lots in today's business world, first we were asked to "Lean In"--now we are being nudged to "Play Big." Mohr, a Stanford MBA and personal coach, provides a series of tips, suggestions, and practices to get women to step outside of their comfort zone and step up to the plate in order to realize their true capabilities and ambitions. Visualization, breathing exercises, self-actualization, journaling, and shameless self-promotion are all recommended. The author draws upon clients' stories to illustrate ways in which too many women continue to sell themselves short or be contented in the background when they could have a much more powerful influence in the worlds they inhabit just by speaking up. Of course, it is never that easy and Mohr addresses this, offering practical ways to circumvent challenges both from within and without. VERDICT Recommended for women who have good ideas but are unsure of themselves or how to implement their innovative concepts. A useful book for public libraries and those with strong feminist or career collections.--Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OH
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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September 15, 2014
Rarely do first-time authors live up to book blurbs, but coach Mohr does. Simply, she moves Sheryl Sandberg's much-hyped Lean In (2013) beyond the conceptual stage and infuses it with pragmatic steps any woman (and perhaps some self-doubting Thomases) can take. Her insights are so startling and real thatin addition to the multiple anecdotes from her workshop and coaching clientsreaders will nod and gasp, smile, and get a bit teary. Here's just one. How many professionals have been derailed by their inner critics? Solutions are many, from label and notice to turn down the volume. In good coach fashion, she includes reinforcing exercises at the end of each chapter, for example, journaling questions to ponder and the summary called The Big Ideas. The 10 chapters help move readers past conflict avoidance, self-censoring, people pleasing, and tentative speech and actionsif only they listen and practice her good advice.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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