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Book Preview: #1 The Slippery Slope of Silencings is the phenomenon where people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered.
#2 The presumption that women are unnecessary is a war that every woman faces every day. It is a belief...
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En el marco del 50 Aniversario del IPADE, el Centro de investigación de la Mujer en la Alta Dirección,CIMAD, publica en colaboración con LID Editorial Mexicana. Este título tiene como misión presentar la historia y la evolución de la empresaria y ejecutiva en México y el mundo, así como el compromiso de las empresas para incluir el talento femenino y crear ecosistemas más incluyentes que favorezcan el desarrollo integral de la persona. El...
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Whether you want to step onto larger stages, or share your voice more in meetings or conversations, one thing is certain: Your voice cannot be heard if you choose to silence it. Now is the time for you to claim the stage and step fully into the spotlight as a woman and leader, so you can share your gifts, wisdom, and perspective with others.
Eleni Kelakos uses performance techniques learned over twenty years as a professional New York and Hollywood...
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The Women in Transition (WIT) career group is an example of an adaptive leadership structure that is self-directed, collaborative and engaging. Whether an individual is actively looking for a job or not, the insights acquired from the journeys of the women who tell their stories will no doubt be thought provoking. Just as in the WIT group, it is hoped that readers will learn and benefit from the experience of others. In this way, the book further...
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Get the Summary of Barbara Stanny's Secrets of Six-Figure Women in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Secrets of Six Figure Woman: Surprising Strategies of the Successful High Earners will be a ground breaking book for high earners who want to ensure their wealth, enhance their success, and learn from others who are in the same boat. It will also offer inspiration, guidance, and motivation...
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It was 2009 and the country was caught up in a devastating economic downturn. Four savvy professionals with many successful businesses decided to take a risk and venture into an industry new to them. Unfortunately, all did not progress as hoped. Nonetheless, Kristy Murrow, a physician assistant, ex-school teacher and soldier bravely took over management as managing partner of Mariposa Medspa, the enterprise that had only been in operation for 18 months...
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Woman UP! is the go-to resource for women who want to finally get out of their own way and get ahead in their careers. Author Aimee Cohen's passionate approach is "like combining your best girlfriend and an elite career expert…in a powerful purse-sized package!" Her insights are a product of more than 20 years of experience and a nearly 100% success rate helping hundreds of clients. Woman UP! conveys a powerful and practical message that exposes...
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In Seizing Success: A Woman's Guide to Transformational Leadership, Dr. Mary Key serves as your personal executive coach as she identifies the essential core competencies and support you need to excel as a woman in leadership. She offers strategies, tools and action steps that can make all the difference in having a successful, fulfilling career and life. The stories and examples will not only engage you but inspire you to be your personal best.
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What is the biggest casualty of your busy life? Is it Creativity? Serenity? Intimacy? Do you have a rich soul despite being time-poor? Or, have you lost (or never had) that inner contentment? TIME POOR SOUL RICH explores 16 casualties of a busy life that can be soul enriching if not ignored. Author Anne Winckel appreciates many women have little if any discretionary time, and in this remarkable book shows time-poor women how to move back into a habit...
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How can women become effective leaders in large organizations without sacrificing who they are, as women and as mothers? This book answers the question: They should live out the 10 characteristics of today's winning leaders. These characteristics - compassion, honesty, and authenticity, for example - were once seen as feminine weaknesses in the command-and-control corporate world. But today, in an inclusive and connected world, they define the leader...
51) Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur
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There are 9 million women-owned businesses in the United States; they account for $1. 3 trillion in revenue. American women are starting businesses at a rate twice that of men. Most of these women are also moms. What does it take to be successful as both a mom and as an entrepreneur? Moms Mean Business gives existing and potential mom business owners the encouragement, advice, and healthy dose of "how-to" they need. In this helpful guide, you will...
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In "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace.
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When a man strongly asserts his point of view and autonomy, he is hailed as a strong, competent leader. When a woman exhibits the same executive qualities, she is labeled a brusque, overbearing bitch. This is not really news anymore, is it? Yet these unfair perceptions are a key reason why only five percent of Fortune 500 company CEOs are women.How can women leaders break through that brick wall of "bitch"? How can they manage gender expectations...
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Since women make the majority of purchasing decisions and the female population is becoming more culturally diverse, the business world needs your leadership to shape the future. American companies can't thrive long term unless you do. With a clear professional purpose rooted in your values, clarity about what sets you apart, and the ability to harness your inherent creative power, you can both define a compelling leadership vision and realize it....
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Are professional organizations that publicly support equity and inclusive workplaces driving real, systemic change, or just using minorities to virtue signal while upholding the status quo?
While the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion have become de rigueur topics in HR circles, women and minorities remain vastly underrepresented in leadership roles. Leadership is a Responsibility explores equity in the workplace and best practices for...
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Nancy Parsons shares exciting insights based on her firm's research that reveal the true reasons why the glass ceiling exists and it is not what most people think. That's why, despite the best intentions and investments in women in leadership programs, today's solutions are not working. It has been four decades, since the Pregnancy Act went into effect in 1979 that prohibited women from being, fired for getting pregnant. Yet, the sad truth is that...
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Women make up the majority of university graduates. They enter the workplace in equal numbers with men. But many workplaces still operate with cultures developed over a century ago to reflect a predominantly male workforce and vastly differing social expectations. So all too often, as women become parents they are forced to fix things in the only way they can - by downgrading their job expectations or dropping out of the corporate world. Anna Meller...
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According to NatWest, 60% of women who have considered starting a business did not; due to a lack of self-worth and confidence.
Brains, Beauty, Boss: The Ultimate Guide for Women in the Workplace explores the intersection between female empowerment, entrepreneurship and career advancement. Sharing the incredible accounts of women from the Forbes 30 under 30 list such as the co-founder of Betches, Facebook's Head of Global Business Strategy and...
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Did you know that:
- Less than two percent of female entrepreneurs ever reach $1 million in sales?
- Only five percent of women CEOs?
- Only three percent of female founders get venture capital funding?
In “How to Be a Badass Female CEO”, Mimi MacLean attempts to change those statistics.
Since graduating from Columbia Business School, MacLean has done it all-including investment banking, buying for Bloomingdale's and being a stay-at-home mom....
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In corporate Canada you see this scenario play out all the time: Highly qualified and ambitious women enter the workforce all charged up and ready to change the world, only to be disappointed as they watch male colleagues pass them on the climb up the corporate ladder. Then the women drop out. It's no surprise, then, that women today occupy only 10% of the highest-paying jobs in corporate Canada. That's not a very impressive statistic after all the...
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