The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace

Some may find them challenging. Based on a nationwide survey and confidential interviews with more than three thousand men, best-selling author of For Women Only Shaunti Feldhahn has written a startling and unprecedented exploration of how men in the workplace tend to think, which even the most astute women might otherwise miss. Yet what they will gain is an invaluable understanding of how their male bosses, colleagues, subordinates, and customers react. In The Male Factor, Feldhahn investigates and quantifies the private thoughts that men almost never publicly reveal or admit to, but that every woman will want to know. Among the subjects The Male Factor tackles are: How men, with rare exception, view almost any emotional display as a sign that the person can no longer think clearly - as well as what they perceive to be "emotion" in the first place (it's not just crying) Why certain trendy clothes that women wear may create a career-sabotaging land mine in terms of how male colleagues perceive them The unintentional signals that can change a man's perception of a woman from "assertive and competent" to "difficult." Women will likely be surprised, even shocked, by these revelations. Never before has an author gotten inside the hearts and minds of men in the workplace -f rom CEOs to managers, from lawyers to factory workers -

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