Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work
- 5h 15m 17s
- Francine Parham
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- 2022
The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works—who has it, where it hides, and how it’s used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.
Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them while playing by a set of rules they never agreed to or were ever trained for.
In this book, Francine Parham shares her knowledge as a Black woman and a former global executive of two major corporations on how to move up in the workplace while maintaining a sense of sanity. The key skill—one that Black women are rarely taught—is understanding the power dynamics within your organization and learning how to “shift the power” to your advantage. Parham shows how to use your voice, strategically build the right relationships, and support others once you have achieved a powerful position—tools any woman can use to increase her power and ensure a successful, fulfilling career.
Parham says Black women are already empowered; there is no shortage of qualified professional Black women in the talent pipeline. But it does not feel empowering when organizations force Black women to work every day to overcome biases, discriminatory institutional practices, and unwritten rules of power at play that hinder their career development and professional advancement.
Please Sit Over There honors the painstaking work being undertaken to deconstruct broken institutions and demonstrates how Black women can achieve their goals while those institutions still exist—effectively opening doors for all women of color.
About the Author
Francine Parham is the founder and CEO of Francine Parham & Co, a company focused on women's leadership and the advancement of women and women of color in the workplace. She has held the position of global vice president for General Electric and Johnson & Johnson, and she currently serves as a senior fellow for the Human Capital Center at the Conference Board, a global think tank. Parham is a frequent public speaker, and she has been recognized as a women's leadership and career advancement expert by the Women's Media Center.
In this Audiobook
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - Please Sit Over There
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Chapter 2 - What You Need to Know about Power
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Chapter 3 - Stop Cleaning Up the Room
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Chapter 4 - What Is This Job Really Preparing Me For?
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Chapter 5 - To Be or Not to Be Authentic
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Chapter 6 - It's Never Too Early to Build a Network
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Chapter 7 - Who's Pounding on the Table for You, Francine?
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Chapter 8 - Place Her on the Flip Chart Over There
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Chapter 9 - At the Table, but Not Really
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Chapter 10 - Bullied, Backstabbed, and Boxed In
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Chapter 11 - Your Soul Is Not for Sale
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Conclusion The Secret to Your Own Power
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Afterword The Leader's Role in Helping Black Women
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Discussion Guide
