Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career - Hardcover

Lapin, Nicole

 
9780451495860: Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0451495861 ISBN 13: 9780451495860
Verlag: Currency, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their own lives and careers.
 
You don’t need dozens or hundreds of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell, you don’t even need one. You just need to be confident, savvy, and ready to get out there and make your success happen. You need to find your inner Boss Bitch — your most confident, savvy, ambitious self—and own it.
 
A Boss Bitch is the she-ro of her own story. She is someone who takes charge of herself and her future and embraces being a “boss” in all senses of the word: whether as the boss of her own life, a boss at work, or the literal boss of her own company (or all three). Whichever she chooses, being a Boss Bitch isn’t something to apologize for—it’s something to be proud of!
 
We all have what it takes to be a boss bitch, says Lapin. The problem is: we don’t learn how to do it in school. Even if we study business, we’re not getting enough real-deal business education. Until now. Here, Lapin draws on raw and often hilariously real stories from her own career and experiences starting businesses—the good, the bad, and the ugly—to show what it means to be a "boss" in twelve easy steps. In her refreshingly honest and relatable style, she first shows how to embrace the boss-of-you mentality by seizing the power that comes from believing in yourself and expanding your personal skillset. Then she offers candid no-nonsense advice on how to kill it as the boss at work whether you have a high-up role or not. And finally, for those who want to take the plunge as an entrepreneur, she lays out the nuts and bolts of how to be the boss of your own business—from raising money and getting it off the ground to hiring a kickass staff and dealing office drama to turning a profit.
 
Being a rock star in your career is something that should be worn as a badge of honor.  Here Lapin shows how to crush it in our careers like like a Boss Bitch!

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Nicole Lapin is author of the New York Times instant bestseller Rich Bitch and the star of the nationally-syndicated business competition reality show “Hatched.” She was the youngest anchor ever at CNN before holding the same title at CNBC anchoring “Worldwide Exchange,” while contributing financial reports to “Today” and MSNBC. Lapin has served as a business anchor and special correspondent for Bloomberg Television as well as the money-saving correspondent for “The Wendy Williams Show. ” She is currently Redbook magazine’s first-ever money columnist. Lapin is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary and was named the first-ever female "Money Expert of the Year" in 2015. She graduated as valedictorian from Northwestern University.

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Chapter 1

Step 1

Owning the Boss Mentality

Be a Boss Anywhere You Are

I didn’t create a multibillion-dollar company. I’m not the founder of some groundbreaking tech invention. I haven’t been on the cover of any business magazines or in society pages. I consider myself a pretty ordinary girl who’s just figured out how to do some pretty extraordinary stuff in my career, making more money on my own than I ever thought I would.

The truth is, I wasn’t dealt the greatest hand in life. Quite the contrary. My father died of a drug overdose when I was 11, and my family was far from stable (but I’ll save that for my memoir). There were days growing up when I didn’t have a proper meal, much less a silver spoon, to put in my mouth. When I was starting out in my career, I didn’t have fancy connections or a big financial safety net. I simply played my hand the best I could, beat the odds, and succeeded in ways that my childhood self would never have imagined.

Along the way I fell flat on my ass . . . ​a lot. That is, until I learned that the only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping-stones is how you use them. In the first step of “Being the Boss of You,” I’ll show you how to feel like a boss no matter where you are.

Stop Stumbling and Start Stepping

I started working pretty early, by traditional standards, with the goal of being a network news anchor. In my late teens (yes, teens), I bounced from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Lexington, Kentucky, hustling hard for any local news gig I could get.

At 18, I thought I was ready to be on air in a “big market.” So I harassed a broadcasting company in Chicago that had a station in big(ish)-market Milwaukee until they would take a meeting with me. I walked in thinking I absolutely looked the part with my shoulder-padded Ann Taylor blazer that was way too big for me and hair teased to epic proportions. I didn’t want anyone there to know how young I was, so I tried to dress older. I even developed some weird thing with my voice that I thought made me sound mature and more legit.

I’m sure the station chief secretly laughed at my ridiculous getup and affected voice. “Where is your accent from?” he asked. “Um, Los Angeles,” I said. Then he told me I didn’t get the Milwaukee job. I was devastated. So devastated, in fact, that I didn’t even pick up on the fact that he wanted to offer me another job instead.

Because I didn’t have the aforementioned financial safety net, I would have taken any TV job I could get, including the one he was offering me in . . . ​business news. Yes, he offered me a job as a business reporter on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a nationally syndicated morning show in lieu of the Milwaukee one. It was a much bigger deal, but it felt like a death sentence at the time. As the daughter of immigrants, I knew nothing about money except feeling like I never had enough of it, so talking about it freaked me out. It was a topic I hated but one I was determined (and needed) to learn ASAP.

I felt like a fake when I started my on-air job as one of the youngest journalists to ever report from the floor of a stock exchange. But the truth is, we all do a little “fake it till we make it.” No one is ever truly ready for any big career move that comes their way. We are all terrified that we are frauds and that it’s only a matter of time until someone finds us out. It was only once I realized that I knew more than I gave myself credit for that I could quiet the haters inside my head and take on this challenge.

Confessions of a Boss Bitch

Whacking Off

Before I started working at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, I’d never seen a trading floor. The energy there is unlike any other: a combination of a raging nightclub, a horse auction, and a Middle Eastern bazaar.

My job was to write scripts about the latest business happenings based on the wire reports that came out every morning. I read them from atop a crate perched over the roar of a live trading pit so that the camera would actually see my face (there was a height restriction on heels women were allowed to wear on the floor . . . ​seriously).

I was so concerned with following the news writing style I learned in journalism school and coming up with clever puns that the gist of the actual story was sometimes totally lost on me. Except I didn’t even realize it until my boss called me out on it.

He was the master of making me laugh even while he was criticizing me—which happened a lot. He frequently called me into his office to watch my on-air tapes together so he could critique my work. He made fun of what he called my “robot arms” and mimicked my awkward anchor cadence. But nothing was as bad as the day he played me back one of my stories and said, “Lapin, what is that story about?”

It was a story about Gillette coming out with a new razor. So naturally, I replied: “It’s about a new razor.”

He then pointed me back to the tape where I was on air saying, “It’s a new razor that is sharp enough to whack off the hairs closer to the skin than the previous version.”

I looked at him quizzically. “What’s the problem?” I was proud of myself that I had used a visual word like whack instead of something obvious like shave or remove, and I told him as much.

He started hysterically laughing.

“What?! I thought it was more of a visual image and good writing.”

“Lapin, you’re in business news now. You are talking to guys. Never say ‘whack off’ anything,” he said.

Oh. My. God. I was mortified. And even now, recalling this story, I am cringing.

“Whether you just made more male fans or not because you tried to be cute and clever with your words, the point is that you weren’t thinking,” he said. “The reason we are doing the story is that Gillette is a massive publicly traded company. It is rumored that it will be acquired by the even-more-massive $100 billion (yes, BILLION) consumer products company Procter & Gamble (P&G). New products move stocks, and this is a big one. That’s why we are covering the story.”

I was speechless. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“C’mon, Lapin, I know you know this is an important story, you don’t need to try so hard.”

“You’re right; you’re the boss,” I said, defeated and deflated.

“Wrong,” he answered. “I’m not there day to day with you. I’m not holding your hand. I’m not looking at every story and walking you through it. Believe it or not, I have more to do than mock your robot arms and unfortunate use of words. I don’t want to be the boss of your every move. You’re the boss of that. I’m just here to tell you when you’re moving in a crazy direction.”

I nodded, still trying to process what he was saying, and got up to leave.

“I’m keeping the Gillette story for our year-end blooper reel, Lapin.”

I forced a smile and went back to work.

I kept repeating to myself, “I’m the boss, I’m the boss.” But I wasn’t excited by that idea—I was terrified.

It took me a few years to come to terms with what being a boss—without technically being the boss—actually meant. I came to see the boss mentality as a state of mind more than a title or anything else: one we can have no matter where we work or who we work for, whether it’s a massive corporation or a three-person...

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Verlag
Currency
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0451495861
ISBN 13 
9780451495860
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
400
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