Long before anyone had heard of Sheryl Sandberg and leaning in, Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim wrote the first bestseller about why women succeed in organizations in The Managerial Woman.
Much of its advice has gone out of date since the book first appeared in 1976. Yet one of Hennig and Jardim’s conclusions still rings true:
“The critical issue facing women and minorities (any outsider to corporations) is no longer the lack of legal equal opportunity; it is one of gaining equal ability to take advantage of it. They and corporate senior managements must now deal with the reasons why, for many women, legal equal opportunity does not ensure real equal opportunity. Having the right to a job is not the same as the ability to get it.”
I went back to that and other former bestsellers and found a few ageless tips that I wrote about in “Timeless Secrets of Success From Yesterday’s Bestsellers” over at @Medium:
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