Margaret A. Heffernan

The Naked Truth (eBook, PDF)

A Working Woman's Manifesto on Business and What Really Matters

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO andFast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with thatof hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and thebest solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers,she traces the patterns and themes underlying women's power,choices, love, sex, money, and many other vital topics for workingwomen. Without sugar-coating the facts, preaching, oroversimplifying, she offers solutions and shares the truth aboutthe working world: women's choices are limited, you can't have itall, women do work differently from men and, yes, it is possible tofind success amidst all of this and feel good about it. "Finally! A book that exposes the masculine myths about what ittakes to be effective in business and helps women reclaim therelational intelligence we have been taught to ignore. A must-readfor all women who want to increase their power and influence in theworkplace--especially those who are thinking of leavingbecause they are tired of the corporate gamesmanship that requiressplitting themselves into a 'work me' and a 'home me.'" --Joyce K. Fletcher, professor of management, SimmonsSchool of Management, Boston, Massachusetts Order your copy today!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780787976651
• Artikelnr.: 38227903

Autorenporträt

Margaret Heffernan has been CEO of five different businesses (both old economy and new) in the United States and the United Kingdom. A former producer for the BBC, she has consulted for film and television and has been acknowledged as one of the top industry executives by the Silicon Alley Reporter, Streaming Media, and the Hollywood Reporter. She speaks regularly at industry and business school conferences and has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation and Marketplace as well as CNN and CNBC. She is a regular contributor to Real Business and Fast Company magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Participants xiii
Introduction 1
1 Start Smart 6
2 Geishas, Bitches, Guys-and the Invisible Woman 26
3 Balls to the Wall: Toxic Bosses and Hostile Environments 52
4 The Emperor's New Clothes 77
5 Power and Where It Comes From 93
6 Sex, Love, and a Vision for Life 120
7 The Whole Life 139
8 How High Can You Go? 163
9 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 186
10 The Entrepreneuse 200
11 The Parallel Universe 217
Notes 231
Web Resources 237
Bibliography 241
Acknowledgments 247
The Author 251
Index 253