How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life |  | Authors: Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher: Crown Business
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The Remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders.
Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. It's the new "right stuff" of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive, and increasingly complex world.
The authors, McKinsey & Company consultants Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the groundbreaking model of Centered Leadership.
The book's personal stories and related insights show you the magic that happens when you put the five elements of Centered Leadership–meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and energizing–to work. They include:
• How Alondra de la Parra built on her strengths and passions to infuse her life with meaning and make her way in the male-dominated world of orchestra conducting
• How Andrea Jung, the CEO of Avon, avoided a downward spiral when the company turned down by "firing herself" on Friday and re-emerging on Monday as the "new" turnaround CEO
• How Ruth Porat's sponsors at Morgan Stanley not only helped her grow but were also her ballast for coping with difficult personal and professional times
•How Eileen Naughton recovered after losing her dream job, landing on her feet at Google and open to a new leadership opportunity
• How Julie Coates of Woolworth's Australia makes energy key to her professional success, with reserves for her "second shift" as wife and mother
How Remarkable Women Lead is both profoundly moving and actionable. Woman or man, you'll find yourself in its pages and emerge with a practical plan for breaking through at both work and in life.
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ALL WOMEN ARE REMARKABLE AND SHOULD READ THIS BOOKK October 8, 2009
Susan A. Bailey (San Francisco)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Given that I am a vascular surgeon, I was not sure if this book would apply to my life or resonate with me personally, but after reading it on the insistence of a friend, I found it to be an amazing lesson on how to authentically structure one's work life so that it can be productive and rewarding even if you are not "leading" in the traditional sense. Follow the leads in this book and you will be a leader by example if nothing else. I couldn't put the book down, the stories of the women in this book were gripping and inspiring....every woman should read this book.
How Remarkable Women Lead October 30, 2009
Janelle Shubert
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Let's make this easy: just buy it! You won't be sorry!
As the director of a women's leadership program at a college, I get an opportunity to read (and review) dozens of books on women's leadership. I also get the pleasure of hosting some of the authors. While there are some good (even very good) books and some good (even very good) authors-as-presenters, rarely do these two dimensions come togther in ways that are intellectually intriguiging, inspiring and just plain enormous fun and engaging. How Remarkable Women Lead, accomplishes all of this as a book. But if you get a chance to actually hear the author, Joanna Barsh present, run, don't walk. She's magic.
Inspiring AND Practical October 4, 2009
Nancy S. Mckay (NY, NY United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have throroughly enjoyed this book. It is real, yet inspiring on many levels. Joanna gives you a very real view of women leaders and helps to frame how they make it through tough times-which is what I need now-and I think many leaders need. Her concept of Centered Leadership is a strong life model and I found myself making lots of notes in the margins with "to do's" in my own work life. Like many leaders, this is a particularly tough time to lead and this book helped me to reframe what I have to offer my team and my colleagues. I am buying copies for all of my direct reports with the intent that they will share many of the concepts with their teams.
A Book Worth Reading and Re-reading! October 18, 2009
A Customer (New Jersey, USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I first read this book in one weekend. I carried the book around with me everywhere -- to my son's baseball games and doing errands -- and I talked about the ideas in the book with my family and friends and the strangers in line at Starbucks. The next weekend, I re-read certain chapters of the book, and this time, I read it with a pen in hand and made notes in the margins. This book not only prompts thinking about work and life, but offers concrete strategies to try.
(I bought another copy to give as a gift to a friend who just got promoted.)
must read for any professional October 18, 2009
lily spain (california)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful for any professional....As a new consultant, I have gone through self-doubt and bouts of pessimism in an intense way as I have been getting settled to my new job and my new client. This book has provided me with a framework to reflect and improve - at the very least, it has reminded me that I am not alone in the hopelessness that I have felt at times. I'm looking forward to applying its tenets on a daily basis so that I can become a more effective leader.
This book has the potential to make a huge difference in the lives of thousands of women (and men). I'm planning to give them to my business school friends and sisters for Christmas.
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