A fresh and unique perspective on the topic of women leadership and careers
Dos and don’ts on how to progress your career and be successful as a woman in a male dominated environment
Real examples of successful women leaders that can inspire both current and future women leaders
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How do women leaders make it to the top of an organization?
How can women stay at the top when most of their colleagues are men?
What should women do to exercise leadership well?
This book tells the stories of 4 powerful women - Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I, and Catherine the Great - who knew the answers to these three questions. The book also explicitly identifies the key factors in these leaders’ career success and elucidates the competencies that enabled the women to exercise leadership effectively. The 4 success stories offer women who already serve in leadership roles and those who aspire to become great leaders both inspiration and practical lessons for real-world challenges. The book also provides advice to organizations that seek to improve the career success of their women leaders.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Leadership Strategies for Women
A wonderful selection of much-needed role models of powerful women who shaped their time with distinctively authentic styles. An inspiration for both men and women of what more gender balance in leadership roles has to offer the world.
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO 20-first and gender diversity guru.
This book fills a vital gap in the management lexicon. Totally relevant to today’s women leaders - potential and actual - and their organisations facing modern real-world challenges, the book provides inspiration and practical advice to anyone interested in improving the career success of women leaders. Rarely has a book about leadership made such a compelling read!
Linda Holbeche, Leadership and Organisational Development Thought Leader.
Such a book could only be written by someone possessing a deep knowledge of history, a profound understanding of what effective leaders do and how they become this way, and a keen appreciation for the challenges women face in modern organisations. Fortunately, Paul Vanderbroeck has all of these qualities. He took on the challenge and the result is a remarkable book full of insights for today’s leaders, women and men alike!
Jean-François Manzoni, Professor of Management Practice & The Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development, INSEAD, Singapore.
An inspiring narrative that creatively leverages lessons from four women from the past, each of whom had to play the cards she was dealt, and each a force of nature who prevailed against the odds and shaped her world. Today's crop of aspiring women leaders, who often start from scratch and face a bewildering array of options and tough performance expectations, would do well to absorb this book's tightly drawn lessons.
Ingo Walter, Seymour Milstein Professor of
Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics, NYU Stern School of Business.
Leadership Strategies for Women provides lessons from history in the unexpected context of gender diversity. Nicely written and original, the book is a powerful example of how looking back can help us moving forward.
Frank Uit de Weerd, VP HR Innovation, R&D, Royal Dutch / Shell.
