| Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want |  | Author: Sara Laschever
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
Buy Used: $41.15
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 452139
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0739343513
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9780739343517
ASIN: 0739343513
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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 Decent book June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The concept of this book is right on target. The "meat" of the book can be a little too simplified. I recommend it for young women just starting their careers - it offers advice that I wish I knew 30 years ago!
 A book for women who think they don't need this book June 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I picked up this book with smug curiosity, confident that being able to ask for what I want was certainly NOT my issue. But what an eye-opener! I was guilty of every excuse in the book for not asking, on a day to day basis.
Asking doesn't just mean at the office. ASK FOR IT is about taking the time to identify one's life's desires, large and small, and asserting oneself with dignity, grace, and even humor.
This book is full of fun anecdotes, but also gives detailed instruction as to HOW to ask when one feels the need, but feels too uncertain about the fall out.
I can honestly say this book has changed my life. Period.
Practical and realistic guide to learning negotiation May 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After "Women Don't Ask," we knew that, as women, we are trained to fear and avoid negotiation - and that the personal cost of that training runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime (not to mention deep unhappiness and the waste of human potential). But everyone who read "Women Don't Ask" came back with the same question: How do I learn to negotiate?
"Ask for It" is the practical answer to that question. The authors give step-by-step instructions on how to learn to ask for (and get) what you want. The first step is to figure out what it is you want in life, above and beyond what you think you will be allowed to have. It's a surprisingly hard task when you've been trained to think about and fill other people's wants - try it! The program progresses by baby steps from there, negotiating for very minor unimportant things up to asking for things you are sure you can't get. As you progress, you'll learn by experience that you can get more than you think, and that people generally react much more positively to asking than you expect. Asking works, asking is safe, asking will make your life better.
One of the things I loved about "Women Don't Ask" was the inclusion of many studies conducted by social scientists on women and negotiation. "Ask for It" continues this trend, but also adds many personal stories about women negotiating. The stories aren't intended as scientific evidence but as examples and role models to help illustrate the authors' points. I found the concrete examples to be very helpful in showing just how much you can ask for and get. Some of the solutions are truly creative - I never imagined that an employer would be so flexible!
Finally, Babcock and Laschever managed to achieve the nearly impossible: They explain how to work around societal prejudices against women - while at the same time continuously asserting that these prejudices are unfair and should be changed. In particular, their advice on being "relentlessly pleasant" - the only way for women to ask for what they want without triggering anger and punishment - strikes this balance beautifully.
 sequel does not live up to the high standard of Women Don't Ask May 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was genuinely disappointed by this book. A loose collection of anecdotes with little substance connecting them. It proposes a variety of strategies to negotiate salary and indicates the timidness of many women in business to do this.
It's my new bible! April 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was so excited to see that the authors of Women Don't Ask published another book. I saw one of the author (Sara Laschever) speak. Her presentation and the chapter in this book "The negotiating gym" changed the way i think about negotiating. I've put the suggestions into practice and am amazed at the results. I just ordered a few for my friends. No woman should be without either of these books.
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