How to Succeed in Business Without a Penis: Secrets and Strategies for the Working Woman Book

When How to Succeed in Business Without a Penis was released, it became an instant best-seller for a huge reason: it revealed insightful differing business styles men and women practice-and actionable techniques each can learn from the other.

Sun Tzu in The Art of War says: "... in the wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together. "

Salmansohn blends. First, she exposes ten male advantages (some to be learned, some to be spurned). Next, she reveals advantages and disadvantages of female attributes. And Salmansohn offers her actionable advice with her trademark irreverent humor - a humor which John Stewart has gone on record as appreciating, saying, "Salmansohn has the soul of a stand-up comic."

Salmansohn also teaches how to find "Career Waldos" (hidden career goals) and keep them firm with exercises to develop "wills of steel," the most crucial muscles for climbing to the top of the corporate ladder.

Since this best-selling release, Salmansohn has penned over 20 more books including How to be Happy, Dammit, and Ballsy.

Publishers Weekly

Salmansohn (How to Make Your Man Behave in 21 Days or Less, Using the Secrets of Professional Dog Trainers) aims to blend the "informational" aspect of men's business books with the "affirmational" component of those oriented to women. A former advertising exec, Salmansohn knows that packaging can always spiff up a product; even if she can't divine new paradigms, she can use creative typography, clever (and sometimes cloying) phrasing and lists, lists, lists, like any good woman's mag. If you can get past her name for an exercise break ("The Staremaster"), you'll find her advice is pretty sound. She recognizes that supposed male advantages like single-mindedness can also boomerang into oversuspiciousness, thus allowing women to succeed in the long run. And she acknowledges that alleged female advantages like sensitivity have their down sides. Salmansohn skates on some thin ice when she discusses workplace sexuality; she encourages readers to get in touch with their sexuality and recommends flirting as a path to successthough she does give advice on defusing sexual harassment. (Oct.)