How To Even…Power Lunch Part 2: Women-Dining-With-Male

By CL Bledsoe & Michael Gushue

Today’s How-To-Even is a twofer. Two How-To-Evens for the price of one! Part 1 is How To Even…Power Lunch: Male-Dining-With-Male. Part 2 is How To Even…Power Lunch: Women-Dining-With-Male. As we say below, women can use nearly all the same tactics and strategies that males employ in power lunching, but WDWM power lunching presents some unique opportunities and techniques that can boost your power points to the next mage level. In a perfect world, men would be replaced by sandwiches, which are useful and delicious. But until then, women will have to subject themselves to having to lunch with males. And we’re here to help.

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Regardless of gender, there are many overlaps in successful power lunching For example, advice on being on time or bragging strategically works equally well for women as for men. Here,we’re only going to touch on a handful of salient, gender-specific tips.

(Note: Neither of us identifies as women, and we are aware that this limits our ability to advise women How To Even win at power lunch. We have conducted extensive research with Christy that one time we had coffee with her at Starbucks. It must have been 15 minutes, maybe 20, though she was on her phone for at least five of those minutes. Her help with this How To Even was invaluable, especially the part about not merely substituting earrings for cufflinks, even though they are the same, kind of.)