Although I did enjoy this book, I'm not sure this is game changing advice. It's definitely still a worthwhile read though, I did take away a few good chapters from this one.

Great book for women in early to middle career. Lots of practical, actionable tips. Well worth reading.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley to review and I will recommend it. It was easy to read and provides an actionable plan with realistic goals to get noticed at work. I like how the strategies were specific and not vague and backed up by others that have actually followed through with the plan. It was simple and easy to get through.

Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

Good, solid book. It's not revolutionary, in the way Lean In was, but a good reminder for women to push themselves in business. It's good to read material geared specifically to women.

I really liked this book and found it very helpful! It was a quick read but packed powerful messages inside. I loved how Ritchie broke the 14 strategies down, touching on each in ways that made sense and didn't overwhelm. It made it easier to digest. I enjoyed the quotes and thoughts from ladies in business and appreciated how she mixed a good bit of those in. Again, a super quick read but packs a powerful punch! As someone in my late 20s looking to move up the ladder, I needed to "hear" a lot of these things and took a lot of them to heart. I'll be recommending this to a lot of friends!

I suppose that a part of me is quite sad that more than forty years after legislation was supposed to remove gender discrimination in the work place that there is still a need for a book that aims to address the inequalities between men and women at work.

If proof was needed the issue has been highlighted today by the news that the UK Government research has identified that one in nine women say they were fired, made redundant or felt forced out of a job when they returned to work after maternity or adoption leave.

Over the years many books have been published that aim to provide a route to success for female workers and in some ways, you could argue that Strategy for Being Visible covers much of that well-trodden ground. But that would be a far too simplistic summarisation of Susie Ritchie’s well-thought-out manual.

Although aimed at female workers a reader of any gender would find value in reading Strategies for Being Visible.

The reasons for this are that Ritchie hasn’t over worked her suggestions limiting her proposed strategies, to just fourteen, so there is space for her to explore them in some detail.

Having a strategy is just a starting point, to make a strategy work you have to understand why it is likely to work, which is the main take away from reading this book. Ritchie provides loads of explanation of the reasons why her proposed strategies will work and, in the process, also provides, for this male reader at least, some enlightenment about why past strategies have not worked.

Strategies for Being Visible doesn't give particularly new advice, it does provide reasons why these strategies help our careers. Each chapter also provides guidelines for how to perform each step. I liked the book because it seems to have spoken to the heart of the issue-- some career women are far more modest than men, regardless of whether they're actually more qualified. The strategies not only help us speak up, but also allay our fears that voicing our opinions would be out of place. Although it's not explicitly stated in the book, the thread seems to be "if they can do it, why can't/shouldn't we." Ritchie also touches on some of the systematic biases that put the glass ceiling in place. We can't change people's biases overnight, be we can chip away at them bit by bit. For the most part, Strategies for Being Visible seems to focus specifically on cisgender (i.e. assigned female at birth and identifying as such), but trans and queer women will also find some gems in here. I took away one star because this book is full of the "same old advice" but I still highly recommend it to any woman-- just starting or otherwise-- who feels they would like to make more progress (money, responsibility, respect, etc) in their careers.
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I'd like to thank both NetGalley and John Hunt Publishing Ltd for providing the advanced reader copy.

Just finished reading the book "Strategies for Being Visible" by Susan Ritchie and found it a very good and useful tool for both female and male, inside the corporate environment and also in community/country networking. This is a very good 14 strategies to incorporate for making oneself visible with what this person does and contributes to a company, community, city or country. I strongly believe that in the age of globalization and digital business these strategies can be wisely used for making the actions noticeable by other people. Many thanks to Susan for putting together the experience of practical tips in connecting to people and networking. I have found very useful the examples of other people as they can be also replicated. This book can be used as a handbook for anyone looking to progress and get noticed for both professional and personal fields.

This slim volume is straight to the point with the 14 strategic ideas for emerging female leaders. The examples and quotes are primarily from the United Kingdom which is rather refreshing,

If you are a reader of business & investing books, then you will not find these suggestions as groundbreaking.
Also, the author misattributes a 2015 New York Times article to a Cheryl Sandberg and Adam Sadler but was actually co-written by Sheryl Sandberg (author of Lean In) and Adam Grant (author of Originals, Give and Take) which was rather disappointing

However, this book will serve as an occasional reference point for tracking one's career. I also liked the fact that the author included a reading list at the end of the book. I would suggest that the author includes a cheat sheet as an added bonus at the end of the book

There's this saying that "it seems simple until you do it," and that's what these fourteen tips shared here are.
I was interested in reading this book because I'm in my mid-career and had to change professions to better pursue my passion and the author provides practical tips to help boost and maintain confidence and most of all increase focus and attainment of set goals. I love this book because it seems simple enough, yet these are most of the things we overlook especially as women in our careers. I noticed that I do not make use of my networks and I've mapped out a better way to go about it.
Thank you Netgalley for the eARC.