HBR Women at Work Boxed Set (6 Books)

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Make Yourself Heard

A conversation with Deborah Tannen

Have you ever been in a meeting and shared an idea, only to have it ignored? Then, 10 minutes later, a guy shares the same idea, and your boss says, “Great idea!” Or maybe you’ve been told you apologize too much, don’t speak up enough, or that you need more “confidence” or “leadership presence.”

So much of how women lead comes back to how we speak. Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres spoke with Deborah Tannen, a Georgetown University linguistics professor and author of the bestsellers You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation and Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, about how and why women’s speech patterns differ from men’s and the effects of ...