Mistakes I Made at Work by Jessica Bacal

Mistakes I Made at Work by Jessica Bacal

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

For readers of Lean In and #Girlboss, Mistakes I Made for Work is ideal for millenials just starting their careers, for women seeking to advance at work, or for anyone grappling with issues of perfectionism, and features fascinating and surprising anecdotes, as well as tips for readers.

Jessica Bacal is the director of Smith College's Reflective and Integrative Processes program as well as the Narratives Project. She directs programs that help students examine their identities and build community resilience. She also offers a course called Creating Your Journey, in which students are encouraged to think about issues such as: What is your story? She graduated from Carleton College with a bachelor's degree, Hunter College with an MFA in writing, and the University of Pennsylvania with an EdD. Her husband, two children, and two pets live in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780142180570
ISBN 10	0142180572
Title	Mistakes I Made at Work
Author	Jessica Bacal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-04-29
Number of pages	288
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