Linda Tarr-Whelan

Women Lead the Way (eBook, ePUB)

Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offers practical steps for women to bring their passion, brains, and background to the power tables and make life better for themselves, their company or organization and global society. . Combines compelling research, international experience, and fascinating personal stories with solid advice . Tarr-Whelan has extensive background as a business woman, a government official, a non-profit leader, and a nurse A few "first women" are making key decisions in high places but a few is not enough to have a significant impact. Changing what gets decided takes changing who makes the decisions. But with just 17% of Congressional seats and 14% of Fortune 500 board seats held by women, the leaders defining priorities and solutions continue to look and act much the same as generations ago. Linda Tarr-Whelan marshals eye-opening facts and figures to decisively dispel the myths that still hold women back and shows women how to build their confidence and skills to pioneer a distinctive approach to leadership, one that emphasizes collaboration, communication and consensus. The proven tipping point, surprisingly, is just 30%--when women's representation at the top reaches 30%, real change starts to happen. Drawing on her extraordinarily diverse background as a consultant, organizer, and diplomat, Tarr-Whelan offers a women-led strategy for change and a complete set of practical road-tested tools readers can use to become powerful partners in creating a better future in a rapidly changing world. Closing the leadership gap is a win for everyone-it brings in new ideas, creates a more balanced and productive work environment, a revitalized social compact and demonstrable positive effects on the bottom line in business and government. Women Lead the Way artfully combines advocacy, research, and tactical guidance to help readers wedge the door open and bring more women through and up.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781605095769
• Artikelnr.: 38423761

Autorenporträt

Linda Tarr-Whelan is a premier expert on women's leadership in this country and internationally. She is a ristinguished senior fellow of the national think tank Demos, is cofounder and managing director of the consulting firm Tarr-Wheelan and Associates, and serves as chair of the National Advisory Council for the Pax World Women's Equity Fund. Linda served as ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in the Clinton administration and as deputy assistant for women's concerns to President Jimmy Carter in the Carter White House. As CEO of the Center for Policy Alternatives, the leading progressive policy and leadership center for the fifty states, she focused on women and the economy. Ladie's Home Journal named her as one of the fifty most powerful women in Washington. She has also been a union organizer and negotiator, was lead lobbyist for the two-million member National Education Association, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Marie Wilson, founder, The White House Project
Preface The Story Behind the Book
Introduction More Women Leaders, Better Leadership

PART I WOMEN LEAD THE WAY
Chapter 1 The 30% Solution
Chapter 2 Modern Myths and Stereotypes
Chapter 3 The Everywoman Quiz
Chapter 4 Breaking out of the Box
Chapter 5 Today s Transformational Leader

PART II STEPPING UP TO LEADERSHIP
Chapter 6 Starting Right Here, Right Now
Chapter 7 Making Women s Power Visible
Chapter 8 Lifting as We Climb
Chapter 9 Wedging the Door Open
Chapter 10 Together, We Rise
Conclusion Dreaming Bigger Dreams

Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Demo

Rezensionen

Linda Tarr-Whelan s astute and compelling analysis of the need for a critical mass of women at our nation s decision-making tables and how to achieve it is right on target.
Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation

Unleashing the potential of women s true economic leadership is critical to growth. We are half the labor force and own nearly half of small businesses without women s full economic participation there will be no complete, sustainable recovery.
Astrid Pregel , Senior Advisor, Women's Economic Empowerment, Canadian International Development Agency and President, Feminomics

"Tarr-Whelan encourages flexibility, willingness to mentor other women, and assertive drive to push for more women in leadership positions." -Vanessa Bush, Booklist "The emphasis on truly changing organizational and societal norms (from donating money to charitable causes that share your goals to actively mentoring and hiring other women) is, in the end, what truly sets this title apart from other recent "women in business" titles." -Sarah Statz Cords, The Reader's Advisor Online (for Library Journal)