Classical and emerging paradigms of leadership are differentwhen examined from a male or female perspective. Some key questionsin leadership studies pertain to the influencing factors in thedevelopment of leadership styles and the general principlesunderlying research and theories described in the leadershipliterature, including social sources, Zeitgeist, and thepsychological matrix of leadership. This book presents a study thatexamined women's psychological investment in the mission ofachieving organizational goals and related processes, the role ofleadership during such processes, and the behaviors attributed tosuccess or stoppage. Stoppage, in this case, refers to women wholead others to a successful summit and, then, step aside.Investigating these issues, the author applied The SherpaLeadership Model, a new model developed by her, resulting in anunderstanding of the underlying reasoning in women'sdecision-making processes and the changes or actions resulting fromsuch reasoning by the women themselves.