How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Halgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith examines the habits women tend to develop that work in one part of their careers but don't translate well to other parts. Based on their years of experience coaching both men and women as well as research into women and men in the workplace, they've honed in on habits that women tend to adopt that men don't necessarily adopt while also referencing that both men and women develop habits that can stymie their advances in their careers. While there are moments the book feels a bit overly generalized, Helgesen and Marshall readily admit that there are women who don't adopt these habits and men that do. They deal with tendencies and how to address those tendencies rather than absolutes. One thing that sets How Women Rise apart from many self-help books is that it doesn't approach the subject from the concept of the broken or inadequate women. It fully acknowledges that many of the habits women need to change worked for them to get them to where they are even if they don't offer them the platform to move up to the next position. Most women who are looking to rise in the careers, and even those who are self-employed but find they'd like more out of their careers than they're getting, will likely benefit from reading How Women Rise because Helgesen and Goldsmith look at the bad habits from an approachable and honest point of view that gives insight as well as actions to be taken to turn bad habits into good habits.