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Having read Thick Face Black Heart I expected this book to be equally as insightful. I was disappointed.I am sure there are women who would find it useful but the target audience was not me. Having read Sun Tzu's Art of War and parried with many a cunning, artful or skillful man in my own journey - and both lost and won - I found the perspective from which Chin-Ning Chu wrote a little too much 'the victim' for my liking. Still, this is a personal perspective and in saying that, I found the odd g...
this is shit.
I really did not enjoy this book. First, it was braggy. And not in an "I am accomplished so you should respect my thoughts on this subject" way, but straight up just braggy. Second, I thought the author talked down to woman and made comparisons between men and woman that were completely outdated and inapporopriate. Third, I don't think the author did a very good good job using Sun Tzu's Art of War and translating it to a context that would work for woman. This book just did not work. There are s...
For most of my life I’ve been a misogynist whilest being unaware. Until I hit my second puberty and period cramps started feeling like kittens scratching in my womb, my mood swings increasingly unexpected and frequent, and since I began started working in a male-dominated and oriented environment, that I started rethinking about the struggles of being a woman. Then I became the armpit-hair growing feminist...(Just joking, I was just a keyboard activist who couldn't find her epilator. I have sinc...
Just superb! A very helpful book specifically written/translated for women, though men can definitely benefit from it too. It’s not something that you will read then relegate to your shelf to eat dust. You would want this book on a place where you can easily reach for it, then read snippets again. Highly recommended!
Difficult book for me to read. I made it through the first few chapters, but kept putting it down, then reading a few pages, skipping a few. Finally, I gave up this week. I didn't find this book super interesting or helpful. A few nuggets on strategy and building alliances with key colleagues, but time to admit defeat and move on.
I'm on page 7. I'm already a little pissed at how she talks about women AND men. Men are brutes and women are wily beguilers because of centuries of subjugation. Maybe she needs a history book because, rules or not, women as an entire group are not these delicate, live-to-please flowers she's making them out to be...I picked this up because I wanted another interpretation of The Art of War. I most certainly have that. If you can manage to lay aside the June Cleaver era notion of femininity, thou...
Learned a couple things from this book. First, I don’t read enough books by women. And second, I’m glad I didn’t try to read the Art of War with no context, since I would have missed the point. All of the points.Art of War for Women is a wisdom book—some parts seem obvious, some seem arcane, and some hit you like a sack of bricks. This week is performance evaluation week at work, and I would be having a much better time if I had heard Sun Tzu’s advice about ambition and timing about six months a...
It was not very helpful. Lots of advice and facts given in this book are pretty well known. Even though the book is geared towards a female audience, I was surprised the book didn't address a lot of feminist scholarship or studies on women in the workplace, specifically, the problems and how to overcome them. I wouldn't recommend it. It did, however, get me really interested in the Art of War by Sun Tzu and now I am going to read that!
This is a great book for women who work in business and have a corporate or 9-5 type of job.
Lots of good points and thought provoking. A few sexist remarks. As a Canadian I thought her anti-American remarks were funny though. 😂
I was having some trouble leading projects at work when a friend who is successful at navigating the corporate world suggested that I read The Art of War. This classic Chinese book by Sun Tzu is a must-read at business school apparently. It's also a cryptic text that, outside of a class, might be difficult to interpret.So when I happened upon the Art of War for Women while browsing the library catalogy, I thought, "Sweet, the cliff notes version."I should some day go back and read the real Art o...
If you see the world as a place where things can be split simplistically into black/white, yes/no, true/false then this book will speak to you.If you are instead the kind of person who sees the world as a place where there are many degrees to be found in between then it is my opinion that this book will be a great disappointment to you. It wasn't bad enough that I want the time back I spent reading it but I would be lying if I didn't express that I have deep regrets that my time could of been be...
This was a good read, but left me wanting more. I think this was a natural outcome of trying to boil down a very complex work into a thin and easy to read volume.The strongest points were:Her list of 8 ways to repackage womanhood. (However, this might make some feminists' heads spin.)Strategies for overcoming office jealousyDiscontentment as the root of creativitySelling yourself first, then your ideas
the art of war was recommended to me, so I saw this one at the store and thought ?why not? it has been helpful but I only read bits and parts then set it down and continue pondering what it is telling me.
Great cliff note version of the ancient Art of War bookI tried reading the original Art of War a few times and found it boring and frustrating to try to make modern sense of ancient thoughts. This book delivered in clarifying the original book and framing the ideas for women and the challenges that we face. One aspect that was distracting were the numerous grammar and spelling errors in the electronic version. This weakness lended the book less credibility for me.
This was an interesting book, definitely worth the read. There were passages that made me think of work situations which I have encountered, and one chapter in particular that made me question my own goals and philosophy. I found the philosophical base of the text to be better founded than More Plato, Less I can´t say that I´d prefer to read book as opposed to a novel, but it´s good to mix it up sometimes.
listening to this via audio on my daily commute... it has become so useful in my day to day interactions thus far looking forward to learning more about myself as I continue to listen...Finished today... I learned that the true art in winning any battle in life or work is having the strength to know how to identify your strengths and weaknesses and what resources to use to enhance and/or compensate them...
The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu. Someone on my flist recommended this. It's extremely good. AN impressive amount of scholarship went into it - she went back and translated the earliest known copy of Sun Tzu's work and she and her editors read four or five others. Her points are well taken. I'm going to have to read it several times. It can be as impenetrable as Art of War itself. Her writing is clear enough. It's that the book is very meaty - lots to digest.
If you work in a business environment such as sales, management, or are a CEO this book is perfect for you. It takes a bit of work to translate for your individual and particular situation if you are not in a business position. It's great for trying to find balance and a sense of peace in yourself in order to succeed. Sun Tzu also emphasizes and teaches you to know yourself, know your enemy, and know your environment.