Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

Women want to be liked but men want to be paid, and those desires drive their decision-making style in salary negotiations. This is the underlying message of Mika Brzezinski's new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth.It's not just money, though. We women stay too long in one-way relationships. We give when we should take. We sacrifice ourselves for some external "greater good" (admirable, but not if it's an all-the-time thing). Mika asks us to question that knee-jerk tendency to settle for less, and encourages us not to feel guilty for doing so. Men don't, so why should we? It's just a negotiation, nothing personal. I found that freeing.Mika writes in a down-to-earth style, with refreshing candor. She didn't smarten up until her forties, spending so much of her own money on job-required travel, wardrobe and other expenses that she was actually in the red working for MSNBC. Her co-anchor, Joe Scarborough, was pulling in fourteen times Mika's salary! Although Joe went to bat for her, big-time, even giving her his bonuses for the show's high ratings, management was downright piggish. The worst was a woman manager who drove Mika to tears when she asked for a raise. Some of her anecdotes about being humiliated by top management are cringe-inducing, making her evolution as a negotiator even more believable.Although any salary negotiation will be affected by this terrible economy, the lessons of "Knowing Your Value" are applicable to more than just money-based relationships. It's an empowering read, and I recommend it.

I was excited to read this book. As a woman in a male dominated industry (construction!), I often feel underappreciated, underpaid and lucky to have the position I have. The book was full of useful, eye opening information. I was glad to know that I am not the only woman in the world who feels like they have trouble asking for what they feel they deserve. At some points I had to put the book down because I was so angry at the way I realized I was being treated.The only problem I saw with the book was what to do about it. Mika told us what she did and what worked and didn't work for her but I still don't know how to negotiate my own raise under my own circumstances. I guess I thought maybe she would have included more information along those lines.Mika reminded me of myself and how she handled certain situations so I was able to appreciate that aspect of the book. Would I have taken my co-host's money if he gave it to me? The verdict is still out on that one. Overall, not a bad book but it definitely could have had a little more to it.

We just had to say something. This book reminds us all to see the good in oneself and to rethink your situation, whateever it may be. Know who you are and let no one re-define you. Mrs. Brzezinski awakens us all (sending this to two grand-nephews) to remember you have a backbone. The intentions of her writings are so genuine, ultruistic and from the heart. As you read, one really feels as though the author does really care, because she does.Brzezinski has interviewd some vey substative women and men, getting them to open up to all of us, with helpful thoughts that also come from their hearts. Brzezinski has a way of bringing out the best in people, on her show and the message in the book. The message is a (good)sleeping giant, unleashed by Mrs. Brzezinski in this, if you will, wake-up call book.Great book with an amazing message, which gives us all the kick we need, no matter your gender or age.I am one of a few in our bookclub that pre-reads and then suggests books that have substance, truth, and somehow help people or make things better with important reminders. This book has them all and then more. It is our next book!!!Vi ses!

I have to say that I love this book and I have been sharing the lessions from it with just about everyone I know.The incredibility of the book, is not that what Mika, Valerie Jarrett, Arianna Huffington, Claire McCaskill or any of these other women share is unique, but rather that it isn't and that no matter how successful you are in your career, there are still areas that you can work on to perfect and even powerful, smart women can be taken advantage of.As someone who works long hours in corporate America, I recognized a lot of myself in Mika, the "not wanting to toot your own horn," "not wanting to rock the boat," that happens a lot in the real world and we take it for granted that it is the status quo.But there is strength in numbers, and hearing someone as articulate, learned and succesful as Mika share her personal experiences as well as that of very important and powerful women in this country, is like having a pep talk with my girls, who not just say "that's not fair" but also provides examples of how to do better.I do not often write reviews for the many books that I read, but this one inspired me to share my thoughts.For what it's worth, although I own the Kindle version, its the kind of book that I want to own a hard copy of and I am ordering copies as well for my female cousins.

Love the book and love the seller.

Excellent. Full of good advice for women. Realistic views of the workplace. Would highly recommend for any woman who works.

This book is recommended for all the working women who would want to succeed beyond all the barriers that this society, organisations , co workers, managers, family create. Go for it. You are more than you think and Mika has given just the right analogies to decode what is really needed to be successful . The strings of empowerment aren't controlled by others but YOU.

Mika bringt auf den Punkt, was ich schon immer dachte: echte Gleichberechtigung erfordert gleiche Bezahlung. Von beidem sind Frauen noch weit entfernt, aber sie können beides erreichen, das Buch verrät, wie.

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