Winning at Work: Why it Pays to be a Status Seeker
Summary
Status - one of the biggest determinants of our quality of life and career success - is poorly understood and rarely discussed. Professor Alison Fragale, organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve, sheds light on the science of status and its relationship to power in the workplace: what it is, why it matters, and how we leverage it for individual and collective success.
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- Alison Fragale
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