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BRAG BETTER

Meredith Fineman

Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion

Talking about your accomplishments is scary and overwhelming, but it's vital to getting ahead in work and life. This new approach to self-promotion will erase your anxiety and empower you to champion yourself.
If you prefer to "just put your head down and do the work," or if you feel like bragging is icky, you are sabotaging yourself without knowing it. Doing good work is no guarantee anyone will notice it. You need a strategy for communicating your achievements and skill sets to others.

Meredith Fineman has built a thriving career training the Qualified Quiet: competent professionals who struggle to communicate their worth to others. Rather than pretending that you're more qualified or confident than you are, or inserting self-promotion into conversations at inappropriate times, Fineman advocates finding quiet confidence in your opinions, abilities, and background, and then turning up the volume.

In this book, Fineman shares the game-changing tools she's developed over the past decade that make bragging feel easy, including:

- Eliminate words that undermine your work and find better ones--like your bio saying you're "trying" or "attempting" to do something instead that you ARE doing it.
- Get remembered by focusing your personal brand and voice on key adjectives (like "effective, subtle, and edgy")
- Practice explaining what you do in simple, sticky terms to earn respect and recognition from the public and people at work

Our culture rewards loud voices over qualified ones. To create a thoughtful, diverse dialogue, we need you to tell the world who you are and what you want--with volume. If you're ready to unlock career opportunities and help others shine, this book is for you.

Meredith Fineman is an entrepreneur, writer, and media expert. She is the founder of FinePoint, a leadership and professional development company that elevates individuals, particularly CEOS, founders, and women to positions of power. Fineman is a freelance writer of 15 years, with columns and bylines in outlets like Harvard Business Review,Forbes, Fast Company, and Elle. She also runs workshops that teach young women about the importance of talking confidently about their accomplishments.
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Published 2020-06-16 by Portfolio

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Published 2020-06-16 by Portfolio

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.. For those looking to land a dream job or pursue another degree, Meredith Fineman's Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion is a must-read... Fineman takes a bold approach in this accessible book... Read more...

This whip-smart, empowering book dismantles the idea that to be heard, you have to be the loudest blowhard in the room. This action plan makes the scary, but necessary, skill of talking about yourself look easy.

Bragging is a superpower if it's done right. Meredith Fineman teaches you how to confidently, assertively, and expertly gain respect by talking about yourself. It's a skill everyone should have.

Women entrepreneurs will love these shrewd promotion strategies. Read more...

In debunking 'likability' myths and teaching precisely and practically how women should magnify their accomplishments, Fineman ignites a kind of bold, brash, bragging revolution - one that will wake your meek ass up.

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Chinese (simpl.): China Youth Book ; Hungarian: Design Kiado ; Korean: Munhakdongne

Not all of us come into the world with the self-assurance we need, and it can be infuriating to watch overconfidence pay off while merit goes unrewarded, especially for the most marginalized in our society. Meredith Fineman has taught me how to Brag Better and will help you do it, too.

If this great book had come out two decades ago, The Qualified Quiet would have learned to self-promote as well as I do, and I would never have had a career.

Brag Better is a thoughtful guide to finding, using, and sharing your voice, even when it's difficult. Speaking up matters - especially in the current landscape.

Brag Better will change your life. It took me an extraordinarily long time to write my first book because any time I wrote anything positive about myself, I would edit the sentence to death because I didn't want to seem egotistical. Forget that!

This book provides a pitch-perfect map for how to take your career to the next level.

Bragging is a superpower if it's done right. Meredith Fineman teaches you how to confidently, assertively, and expertly gain respect by talking about yourself. It's a skill everyone should have.

How to show off your professional accomplishments without turning people off - In this bonus chapter from 'Brag Better,' author Meredith Fineman discusses how to approach your job search by walking the balance between showing off your value and coming off as self-promotional. Read more...

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