CHAPTER TWELVE
women were raisedto be nice. so what?
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
—Anne Lamott
IT’S BEEN SAID that men view business as a sport and women view business as a picnic. In other words, men want to win while women want to make sure everyone has a sandwich and a good time. As you may have noticed, women have been repeatedly bashed for this, as if “playing nice” were a pathetic and career-limiting move.
But is it really?
I mean, if there’s one thing we should all know by now, it’s that managing by power, aggression, and fear only creates a sicko race to the bottom, which—of course—is fantastic news for us ...
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