Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

Executive coach Lois P. Frankel argues that many women bring to work a set of behaviors learned in girlhood that quietly undermine them as adults. She names these unconscious mistakes one by one and pairs her diagnosis with coaching tips meant to be built into everyday social and business conduct. Examples from the revised edition include staying out of office politics, multitasking, treating negotiation as if it were confrontation and asking permission rather than acting directly. Frankel's case is that women can take charge of their careers and speak their minds while still being respected. The book first appeared in 2004, became a New York Times best seller and has since been revised, most recently in a third edition.

Sumo founder Noah Kagan included it in his list of 18 books that changed his life.