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Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work

You can't make the world fair, but you can take back your power.

As a woman who built Facebook Marketplace from an idea and led major transformations at billion-dollar companies, Deb knows the uneven playing field intimately. This book is for every woman told she's too aggressive, too assertive, or too emotional—it's your guide to thriving in the system that exists today.

Take Back Your Power combines hard data with twenty years of leadership experience to help you find your voice, get heard, and achieve what you want without losing yourself in the process.

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What You'll Learn:

How to be seen and taken seriously at work

Strategies for becoming a great leader authentically

Finding the allies you need to succeed

Overcoming the myth that success must be achieved alone

Redefining power as influence and positive change

Testimonials

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and author of 7 Rules of Power

"A remarkable book by a remarkable person. Deb Liu uses her life story and the examples of other successful women, as well as the research literature, to provide practical and actionable advice about how to build power and thrive in a world that is often unfair. Although written by a woman for women, Liu’s insightful recommendations speak to everyone who has faced imposter syndrome or felt like the person who didn’t belong — which is, of course, all of us."

— Abigail Hing Wen

New York Times Best Selling Author & Executive Producer of Loveboat, Taipei

"Essential wisdom for every professional, from one of the most successful women leaders in Silicon Valley."

— Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder of Sundial and author of Wall Street Journal bestseller The Making of a Manager

"From a young age, we women are taught that power is a dirty word. So what do we do? We continually give it away. Well, that ends here. This book teaches you how to put power back in your hands, where it belongs."