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The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership Paperback – April 1, 1995
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- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCrown
- Publication dateApril 1, 1995
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.73 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100385419112
- ISBN-13978-0385419116
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- Publisher : Crown; 1st edition (April 1, 1995)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0385419112
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385419116
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.73 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #731,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,015 in Women & Business (Books)
- #6,122 in Sociology Reference
- #7,774 in Leadership & Motivation
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Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and leadership development consultant. Her latest book, The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, explores the strategic dimension of women’s leadership. Her other books include The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women's leadership style, translated into 12 languages and continually in print for twenty years, and The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time.
Sally delivers seminars, keynotes, and workshops for the world’s leading corporations, associations, universities, and non-profits.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2009Too often, as women, we abandon, dismiss, or deny our feminine wisdom. We distract ourselves and lose sight of our own innate wise feminine approaches to leadership. It's put on the back shelf as we compete, produce, and succeed from our dynamic masculine assets. Then we are less effective, depleted and confused. We begin to doubt ourselves. Yet some part of us knows, and longs to intensify the sustaining flow and effectiveness of our innate feminine nature.
Sally Helgesen takes apart the self limiting beliefs that constrained women from the natural power of their leadership and, even more importantly, shows that women leaders, who lead from their feminine approaches make smarter decisions and build better businesses. They experience a greater sense of personal power so that they are spending their time on what matters the most to them. When we connect our wisdom, our leadership, and our feminine approaches we are the kind of leader the world needs today.
The world has change and organizations who want to continue their success need to change. Women in leadership bring a different approach to being a leader. Wise feminine leadership is an underutilized and critically needed resource for today's growing company. As Sally says on p. 225, "The ability to model and persuade is of particular importance in an organization where authority is not imposed from the top down in hierarchical fashion. In a web structure, where talent is nurtured and encouraged rather than commanded, and a variety of interconnections exist, influence and persuasion take the place of giving orders...Compassion, empathy, inspiration, and direction - all aspects of nurturance - are connective values...."
Will we lose the competitive advantage as we amplify our feminine approaches? Sally Helgesen makes a solid case - the answer is No.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2022This purchase was a Re-read. Originally, I did presentations using this study to various groups.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007This carefully conducted research study of how women manage and how women lead provides a baseline for similar studies that follow. Women really do manage and lead differently, and that difference enriches the workplace. I am using this as one of the texts in a web based graduate course focusing on leadership that I am teaching. There are leadership lessons for everyone here.
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014A great read!
- Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2020I have read some reviews about this book and I thought it is interesting 🧐, however it wasn’t as I expected. Everyone has different test of book so mine was little bit different than as I thought it would be.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014Great book!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014good!
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- Maria GheataReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good for modern management
It is a really good book for management and leadership, looking from a totally different view than traditional management. All done! Highly recommend to anyone, not just those in leadership.
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VirginieReviewed in France on April 23, 2012
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bon produit
Très bon produit en très bon état tel que décrit.
Merci pour cette transaction sans faute avec Anybook - A recommander :-)
- Julie DubeReviewed in Canada on January 8, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Gift to a Friend
My friend was very pleased to receive this book. She is a woman in business and feels this is a good book to read.