Authors: Norma Carr-Ruffino.
Paperback, 308 pages
Publisher: Career Press
Publication Date: 2004-10
Edition: 4

Reviews :

    The Promotable Woman presents important strategies to overcome career obstacles and stereotypes and achieve business success. It concentrates on guiding women to becoming outstanding leaders by focusing on two key areas: a woman's own image of what her role and behavior should be and the stereotypes others have about women. Specific areas of development The Promotable Woman explores include: * How your self-concept affects your leadership style. * Making constructive behavioral changes to function more effectively as a person. * How the stereotypes of others affect your leadership style. * Developing specific skills that establish your competence and deal effectively with stereotypes. By developing a personal career image and a role in business, the promotable woman will discover her appropriate level of firmness, friendliness, and assertiveness to maintain a successful and fulfilling business and personal life....

Authors: Steve Fox.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: 1992-06-24


Reviews :

    In 1971, when General Telephone and Electric relocated its GTE Lenkurt plant to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city fathers were elated. GTE Lenkurt became the largest manufacturing employer in the state. The modern exterior of the plant and the "clean" reputation of the industry, however, effectively camouflaged conditions on the shop floor where unskilled assemblers, mostly minority women, used solder, epoxy, solvents, acids, plastics, and other toxic chemicals to assemble the solid state devices inside electronic components. The numerous deaths and virtual plague of physical disorders that resulted from these working conditions convinced attorney Josephine DeLeon Rohr to initiate the largest occupational disease and disablement trial in New Mexican history.In this compelling expose, Steve Fox presents the sole public record of six years of legal and medical investigation into the lives of these workers. Their devastating testimony as well as the personal and professional risk incurred by Rohr documents the tragic legacy of the electronics industry. Rohr's meticulous investigation uncovered more than two hundred GTE workers (95 per cent of them women, 70 per cent of them Hispanic), each of whom had a strange array of health problems. The list included cancers, frequent miscarriages, excessive menstrual bleeding and hysterectomies, bizarre skin disorders, and odd neurological problems. Fox describes the dramatic events leading up to and the settlement of the case and shows how an ill wind can blow through the clean corridors of the high-tech workplace. Steve Fox teaches in the American Studies and Sociology departments at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque....

Authors: Elizabeth Perle Mckenna.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Delta
Publication Date: 1998-08-10


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    In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Perle McKenna challenges the outdated system of work for professional women, and encourages readers to re-examine work as their sole identities, and, if they are unhappy, to allow room for their Lives. For every worn-out, emotionally depleted female professional who has ever sighed, "there has got to be a better way," here is the revolutionary book by Elizabeth Perle McKenna--herself a former publishing executive--that explores women's relationship with work.

For decades, women have succeeded at traditional male jobs, but now, deep in the second stage of the feminist movement, they want lives that are integrated and whole. Based on original research and containing hundreds of interviews with prominent working women, this book exposes the inherent conflict between the way work traditionally is structured and rewarded, and what women desire and value in their lives. More important, it suggests new ways for women to identify their values, reclaim their identities, and define success on their own terms.

Most importantly, this is not just another book about working mothers. Liz Perle McKenna deconstructs the myth that women can have it all, and shows that they risk true happiness until they give up that impossible ideal. The author's focus extends to every working woman who will most likely face a life-altering situation at some point in her career and will need to redefine what success means to her. Any woman who has been working for more than a few years will identify strongly with the issues raised here, and will be rewarded by the insights she gleans from this vital book....

Authors: Denis Waitley.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Executive Excellence Publishing
Publication Date: 1999-04-25


Reviews :

    In his first best-selling book, The Psychology of Winning, Denis Waitley identified ten positive attributes and actions that high-performance "winners" use to achieve authentic, lasting success. In The Psychology of Winning for Women, Dayna and Deborah Waitley join their father to address the needs of women in today’s turbulent global society. This book combines the latest breakthroughs in behavioral research with time-tested ideas in human potential in a 21st Century perspective for women who seek to realize their full potential. This book explores: Character traits of great women and their unique perspective on winning; Secrets of women who overcome obstacles, break barriers, and win; Taking charge of your goals and outcomes; Why women are poised for global leadership; Action steps to improve inner strength and self-confidence; How to balance career and personal life....

Authors: Brian Tracy.
Paperback, 123 pages
Publisher: Career Press
Publication Date: 1997-11


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    Women in positions of leadership, from home business owners to corporate executives, will find the words offered in this compact book moving and inspirational. Paper. ...

Authors: Patricia Werhane. Margaret Posig. Lisa Gundry. Laurel Ofstein. Elizabeth Powell.
Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 2007-10-30


Reviews :

    Female executives of large companies are still in short supply in the U.S., but they have made great strides in recent years and their number is growing. Patricia Werhane and her fellow experts in leadership, ethics, entrepreneurship, and management interviewed twenty-two prominent women--including executives at Kraft, Boeing, and Harley Davidson--to uncover their leadership styles, reveal their most effective practices, and find out how they broke through the glass ceiling. This celebration of stellar executives highlights their achievements, the values and visions that guide them, and the contributions they've made to both their companies and industries. Now, more than ever, these stories need to be told. Despite enormous strides in the status of women in business, female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies can be counted on two hands, and less than 15 percent of Fortune 500 board seats are held by women. These daunting statistics, however, belie another phenomenon: The iceberg of male domination in the boardroom is beginning to break up and melt. More and more women are assuming positions of real leadership. And it's none too soon. With the increasing diversity of the workforce, businesses need the wisdom successful female executives can offer. To encourage more women to step up to the plate, this book tells many stories of perseverance and inventiveness. But it digs deeper to reveal common qualities and characteristics that reflect a style of leadership that is in stark contrast--in every major dimension, from communication styles to team building to crisis management--to the traditional, white-male model that has dominated practice, theory, and management education. While men tend to be transactional leaders, the women profiled in this book are nothing less than inspiring, transformational leaders. Interviewees include, among others: *Anne Arvia, CEO, ShoreBank *Margaret Blackshere, President, Illinois AFL-CIO *Cathy Calhoun, President, Weber Shandwick--Chicago *Ellen Carnahan, Managing Director, William Blair Capital Partners *Deborah L. DeHaas, Managing Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu *Sondra Healy, Co-Chairman, Turtle Wax *Barbara Provus, Principal and Founder, Shepherd Bueschel & Provus, Inc. *M. Martha Ries, Vice President, Ethics & Business Conduct, The Boeing Company *Desiree Rogers, President, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas *Paula Sneed, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing Resources & Initiatives, Kraft Foods, Inc. *Donna Zarcone, President and Chief Operating Officer, Harley Davidson Financial Services The result is an incisive, engaging, thought-provoking, and ultimately empowering narrative that will serve as a guide for women now entering, progressing, and leading in the workplace--as well as the men with whom they work....

Authors: Karin Abarbanel.
Hardcover, 298 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1994-02
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    More than 30 interviews with successful women who made the move from corporation to cottage include topics such as emotional readiness, essential inner resources, reshaping one's business in response to a new environment and workstyle, the trade-offs, stages of adjustment, and traps to avoid....

Authors: Evelyn Murphy.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication Date: 2005-09-27


Reviews :

    A WORKING WOMAN EARNS 77 CENTS FOR EVERY MALE DOLLAR.

In the twenty-first century, the gender wage gap still affects the daily life of women throughout the country, at every economic level, from cashier to CEO. Is it fair? No. Can it be stopped? Absolutely.

In this intelligently argued and carefully researched book, Evelyn Murphy, Ph.D., examines how much women (and their families) lose over a lifetime to the wage gap, knocks down the myth that women "choose" to make less, and documents the widespread discrimination that's holding down women's pay.

But here's the good news: The wage gap can be closed. Having served as an economist, politician, public official, and corporate officer, Murphy has a 360-degree view of the problem -- and of the solution. Read this book -- and get even....

Authors: Tory Johnson. Robyn Freedman Spizman. Lindsey Pollack.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Publication Date: 2002-09-03
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    From the Women For Hire organization, this is a make-it-happen-now job guide. Women For Hire produces successful, high caliber national career fairs partnering the country's leading employers in all fields with thousands of smart, qualified, and diverse women. Now, in this book, readers will get the straight-arrow advice they need to get a job. Women For Hire identifies specific ways for job-seekers to maximize their search efforts and secure a great new job. Readers will learn:

€ Networking Necessities for the Shy to the Gutsy
€ The Truth About Job Functions
€ Real Answers to Resume Dilemmas
€ Smart Interview Strategies
€ One-Minute Mess-Ups to Avoid at All Costs
€ Tips on Negotiating Salary and Benefits
€ Overcoming Obstacles Faced by Women Job Seekers
€ How to Keep Your Job Once You Land It


Plus: interactive exercises, resource lists, and real-life anecdotes...

Authors: Esther Wachs Book.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Collins Business
Publication Date: 2001-09-01


Reviews :

   

Playing With The Big Boys -- And Beating Them At Their Own Game!

From Meg Whitman of eBay to Marcy Carsey of Carsey-Warner and Oxygen Media, today's leading businesswomen show how to make it in the notorious boys' club of corporate America.

Gone are the days when men called the shots. More and more women have replaced men or excelled over rivals in male-dominated industries because they possess the qualities of leadership that top firms are seeking today. Esther Wachs Book introduces the new Female Leader and reveals the seven key, and uniquely female, qualities of leadership that are turning the world around -- and allowing more women to achieve success.

Filled with compelling insights gleaned from the country's highest-ranking businesswomen, Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman reveals how these exceptional women have soared to the top and captures their strategies for success.

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