Expressão: GO-GETTER

Go-getter é a palavra usada para descrever uma pessoa dinâmica, ativa, energética, empreendedora e que faz de tudo para obter sucesso. Um go-getter geralmente dedica-se o máximo que pode para conquistar seus objetivos e está sempre em busca de novos desafios. Em português, podemos traduzir essa palavra informalmente como "lutador", "conquistador", "guerreiro", "batalhador". Lembre-se, porém, que ela é sempre usada no sentido de pessoa dinâmica, ativa energética. Para facilitar um pouco mais, veja alguns exemplos reais de seu uso: We only recruit go-getters who will be actively involved in the company’s development. (Nós só contratamos pessoas empreendedoras que estarão ativamente envolvidas com o desenvolvimento da empresa.) We like go-getters who bring in new customers. (A gente gosta de pessoas batalhadoras que trazem novos clientes.) She has a reputation as a real go-getter. (Ela tem fama de ser uma grande conquistadora.) "Pamella is a go-getter," her boss said. ("Pamela é uma pessoa bastante empreendedora", disse a chefe) Would you describe yourself as a go-getter? How would you define the personality of a go-getter? Do you know someone who is a real go-getter? 　 Em minhas pesquisas encontrei uma critica sobre um livro escrito por Debra Shigley entitulado "The Go-Getter Girls´Guide" - What, you may ask, is a Go-Getter Girl? Well, a Go-Getter Girl is no single person. She can be your ambitious and terrifyingly organized cubicle mate. She can also be your boss, or the person your boss roots for at all the important meetings. She is typically on the receiving end of everything you dream of at work: fast promotions, pay raises, and high-profile projects. And to top it all off, she is always cheerful and upbeat, and converses well with interns, secretaries, colleagues, and managers alike. Every office has a Go-Getter Girl, and we all have a good idea of what she looks like. Her heels are immaculately polished, her nails are well manicured, and even first thing in the morning she appears as though she just stepped out of a Ralph Lauren catalogue, designer handbag in tow. As this woman’s colleague or employee, you may feel intimidated, jealous, angry, or any combination of these feelings. Why is this girl so perfect? How did she become this way? Why am I not doing what she is doing?...............Readers may be left with the same question they began with: "What is a Go-Getter Girl?" The Go-Getter Girl, according to Shigley, is bright, talented, and strategic about her career. Perhaps inadvertently, Shigley also suggests that a Go-Getter Girl is manipulative, fake, and unafraid to use her femininity to get what she wants, making this book more a setback for hard-working women in the office than the tool for career advancement it desperately wants to be.

　

Quote of the Day - Enjoy the Little Things.....

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

Robert Brault (born 1938); American Writer