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Playing to Win in Business
If business is a game, then women need to learn the rules in order to succeed. According to my guest today, Gail Evans, men function better in the workplace because they recognize the object of the game of business is to win. Gail’s own successful career demonstrates that she has mastered the game and she is passionate about helping other women to understand the rules in business so that they can also be successful.
Today’s insightful conversation with Gail will reveal the lessons she learned in the male dominated environment at CNN and how she rose to become Executive Vice President. She will give us some practical tools so that we can make the right decisions at work to give us an advantage.
Featured Guest
When it comes to the success of women in the workplace, Gail Evans is a leading source. Her books, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman and She Wins, You Win have been best sellers around the world. Her weekly radio show, “It’s Not Just a Man’s World” was syndicated to 1900 CNN Radio affiliates.
Gail began working at CNN in 1980 and when she retired in 2001, she was EVP. At CNN, she was responsible for program and talent development at all CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and Network Guest Bookings.
Gail worked at the White House in the Office of Special Counsel to the President during the Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the president’s Committee on Equal Opportunity Employment. In 1997, she was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on White House Fellows.
Gail has appeared on The Today Show, Larry King Live and has been featured in The New York Times and USA Today.
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