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154 reviews for:
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
Laura Vanderkam
3.61 AVERAGE
154 reviews for:
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
Laura Vanderkam
3.61 AVERAGE
Quite interesting, actually. Solidly researched, not the usual re-hash of time management tricks you can read everywhere, but new info about how successful women really aren't that harried and workaholic at all. There is so much time in a week - no need to temper your ambitions: people who say they work sixty hours a week are probably lying and a balanced, interesting, challenging career is certainly possible with a bit of common sense and flexibility.
Recommended! Especially for those smart women we all know who think combining a family and a career is impossible or something for superwomen.
Recommended! Especially for those smart women we all know who think combining a family and a career is impossible or something for superwomen.
Closer to 2.5 stars.
This book had some good information, but I felt like a lot of it just didn't apply to me. I didn't read anything about it before I listened to the audiobook, so I didn't realize that it was going to be so focused on higher income women with children, which wasn't what I was looking for. Based on the title alone, I expected it to be more focused on the relationship between successful women and how they manage their time, but it was very focused on specific examples of how women with children manage to have children and still work (and the answer in many cases was that they can afford to outsource various things in life like cleaning and grocery shopping.) Even if I had kids, I'm not sure how helpful this book would be overall, but there were a few bits of information that I thought were interesting and could be helpful.
This book had some good information, but I felt like a lot of it just didn't apply to me. I didn't read anything about it before I listened to the audiobook, so I didn't realize that it was going to be so focused on higher income women with children, which wasn't what I was looking for. Based on the title alone, I expected it to be more focused on the relationship between successful women and how they manage their time, but it was very focused on specific examples of how women with children manage to have children and still work (and the answer in many cases was that they can afford to outsource various things in life like cleaning and grocery shopping.) Even if I had kids, I'm not sure how helpful this book would be overall, but there were a few bits of information that I thought were interesting and could be helpful.
There's a lot of good information in here. I want to go back through with a highlighter and post Its.
Technically this is a DNF because I skipped several chapters and sections that didn't apply to me. In retrospect, I should have just picked up [b:168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think|7847359|168 Hours You Have More Time Than You Think|Laura Vanderkam|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442759653s/7847359.jpg|10958350] (which I will read next) and skipped this one, because my idea of being a successful woman is completely different from the one presented in the book.
There were still a few helpful/interesting points, so the book did manage to just barely hit a three star rating for me.
There were still a few helpful/interesting points, so the book did manage to just barely hit a three star rating for me.