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When women lead : what they achieve, why they succeed, and how we can learn from them / Julia Boorstin

Author
Boorstin, Julia
Published
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Description
vii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
I. How and Why Women Build Strong Companies. Overcoming the odds -- Building with purpose -- Leading with empathy -- Engineering smart teams -- II. Fixing Problems. Reforming broken systems -- Embracing change -- Managing in crisis -- III. Creating New Patterns. Defying CEO archetypes -- Discovering resilience -- Creating new communities -- Defeating bias with data -- Epilogue: Learning lessons.
Summary
"Julia Boorstin was thirteen when her mother told her that, by the time she grew up, women could be just as powerful as men, "captains of industry, running the biggest companies!" A decade later, working at a top business publication and seeing the dearth of women in positions of leadership, Boorstin assumed her mom had been wrong. But over the following two decades as a TV reporter and creator of CNBC's Disruptor 50 franchise, interviewing, and studying thousands of executives, she realized that a gender-equity utopia shouldn't be a pipe dream. Yes, women faced massive social and institutional headwinds, and struggled with double standards and what psychologists call "pattern matching." Yet those who thrived, Boorstin found, shared key commonalities that made them uniquely equipped to lead, grow businesses, and navigate crises. They were highly adaptive to change, deeply empathetic in their management style, and much more likely to integrate diverse points of view into their business strategies, filling voids that their male counterparts had overlooked for generations. By utilizing those strengths, they had invented new business models, disrupted industries, and made massive profits along the way. Now, in When Women Lead, Boorstin brings together the stories of over sixty of those female CEOs and leaders, and dozens of new studies. Her combination of narrative and research reveals how once-underestimated characteristics, from vulnerability and gratitude to divergent thinking, can be vital superpowers--and that anyone can work these approaches to their advantage. Featuring new interviews with Katrina Lake, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenn Hyman, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Lena Waithe, Shivani Siroya, Julia Collins, and more, When Women Lead is a radical blueprint for the future of business, and our world at large."--
"A groundbreaking, deeply reported work from CNBC's Julia Boorstin that reveals the key commonalities and characteristics that help top female leaders thrive as they innovate, grow businesses, and navigate crises--an essential resource for anyone in the workplace"--
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ISBN
9781982168216 (hardcover)
1982168218 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-415) and indexes.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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