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"rules for the management Mama" or "Sometimes it is important to be a pig"

Amazon reveals it: the bulging list of references for I will make the woman's career. With or without whether child. We are informed about the "games of power " about "women do not tell men what . We learn that arrogance not in principle can hurt. And rhetoric also for women is to learn. I have these books. I read them. And they make me even more. But recently I had to smile just a little when I consulted a colleague and department head.

you revealed to me her heart. Confessed to a secret wishes and fears. Namely the need for a child without having to give up the job. And what I advised her in terms of occupation, with before child / children?

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• many projects as possible with as high corporate profits finish. Find out a list. Salary up heave. MK do nanny and cleaning lady at the coal.
• All potential successors of the way clear, if they are only half as competent as they put themselves
• The best project accounts, flourish in their own name (!) On the desired or expected date of delivery. look
• And in any case not later than the date of conception, to day care, kindergarten and after school!

MK (Which I would include the pregnancy) tell

• Only the head, and there is no colleagues. The only other place the saw on the chair leg, which should absorb in the near future, a steady increase in weight ... proffer
• the Chief a viable re-entry plan that properly supports its own needs and careers. (Incidentally, career mothers can be a very attractive poster child for it!)
• determine the placeholder itself and as little as possible to incorporate. The less competences, more longs head back to the new mother. The more mistakes the placeholder makes, the better for the own reputation.
• The placeholder will be a placeholder and not a member of staff or successor!
• On maternity leave not the regular phone calls with colleagues forget. Blasphemy is always allowed! (Motto: Just do not get leave.)
• appear calm And more than once to be presented to the young and incidentally to inform and hi there. Or - better yet - to help with a problem. Woman can think with babies and small bottle in the arm and hand still!
• And so women returning to work is: avoid anything, resulting in action or language anyone can suggest that woman is responsible for a child. Compensatory time off instead yellow notes. Projects on "improving the demographic relevance 'rather than parents' council in kindergarten.

I must confess that I am quite come forward. Up to this point I had mentioned only a few basic rules. My colleagues looked at me and said nothing. Swallowed. And said: "That's mean and selfish ." Yes, that's it. And then I felt really like a pig. But You have to be a pig in the world.

What is not quite as friendly as all my books still sound. Actually, I hope, therefore, a book title and content to it as it really is:

The small grunts and mud ABC / Guideline to successfully sow.
Or so ...

PS: Maybe it will be even my colleagues who write it once ...