A quote: Think about it— whether it's the gay man forced to weather anti-gay jokes or the conservative force to weather anti-conservative jokes, the result is the same— some part of them is negated, and they can't help feeling alienated, not free at work.

No, these situations are not the same, Kim Scott. One denies the humanity of a person. The other makes it more difficult to express an increasingly loathsome philosophy that more and more denies the humanity of vast swaths of our population. ( )

Worthwhile read, especially for managers ( )

(10) Gawd. I hate this genre. The only reasons I read such books are for work book clubs. This is another Sheryl Sandberg acolyte. These bougie tech executives that command huge salaries to manage our addiction to screens - or addiction to anything; addiction to consumerism. Gross. just makes me want to throw up in my mouth. The corporate structure is grotesque.

My work wanted us to read as a paradigm for the apprenticeship-type work and career guidance that is part of my job housed within an academic as opposed to a corporate power infrastructure (which is almost just as obscene, BTW) I thought the ideas were great - our ultra PC world in academics is not quite ready for this however. My ass would be fired so fast. . . It is a shame. The funniest thing I read was the fact that successful women are labelled as "abrasive" in performance reviews - now here I was, thinking that was just me. Sure enough, when I brought this up to some other successful women friends outside of my own field - Boy, did that word resonate. Honestly, people expect a female boss to be a cheerleader not a coach - and we are punished for speaking our mind. Sigh. Perhaps I am just 'obnoxiously aggressive' - another funny term.

Anyway, I thought there was some good information couched inside a disgusting self-help kind of repetitive framework that makes me gag. And the name-dropping - really? Is that necessary? .. not that any of the names mean anything to me, but it still smacked of obnoxious aggression. Oh well, good luck with this approach with millennials and Gen Z's - I hope these companies have a full complement of "wellness coaches" read: psychiatrists, working round the clock. ( )