I am suffering from a personal dilemma. While doing some research I stumbled across Christopher Flett and his book ‘What Men Don’t Tell Women About Business: Opening Up the Heavily Guarded Alpha Male Playbook’
The book description and the profile of the author, (a man who gives 40-60 speeches a year to women on corporate life), makes me think that the book will be a pile of condescending nonsense. Spending the main chunk of my time in corporate life as opposed to the little time I spend in academia I know how different the cultures are. I am also put off by professional speech givers unless they are of the after-dinner type. As a rule they are bores.
If this was book written by Nicola Horlick, I would have already bought it. However the credentials of a male Canadian professional talker and academic isn’t quite so appealling.
So do I
1. Buy the book and challenge my preconceptions
2. Not buy the book in the belief that life is too short and there are lots of good books that I know I would enjoy
Enjoying your blog. I read that book. He is Canadian but lives in Miami, Florida. I couldn’t put it down. I work with a lot of ‘challenging’ (being nice) men and found the information revealing and I started using some of his suggestions right away. There are some parts that might upset you, but if you consider him someone who is trying to level the playing field for women, you will read it in the right spirit. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Sam.
Comment by Samantha Toss — June 20, 2008 @ 10:10 pm