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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

By Lois P. Frankel, Warner Business Books, 2004, 268 pages

List price: $19.95, ISBN: 0-446-53132-4

Thank heaven for little girls, for little girls get bigger every day," the song says. But too often, little girls don't get bigger. They just become girls with jobs--instead of becoming women with careers. In Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, Lois Frankel says women who want to advance in business must avoid the self-defeating behaviors that keep them girlish and deny them the windowed corner offices that they deserve.

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